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Thanks for the great widget Denzel!
Would it be possible for you or someone else to define how I would go ahead and center the video display in the widgets area so I might make this alteration? This would make it look much better while being displayed on my page.
Thank you, in advance. http://www.the-912-project.com/
Hi Trent,
There are three sets of echo that prints out the video, which is in HTML <object> tag on the sidebar. each of them looks a bit like this.
echo "\n<object width=\"$v_width2\" height=\"$v_height2\">\n";
...others codes within...
echo "</object>\n\n";
Just add <div> tags before the <object> tags, with styling, margin 0px auto and in this case your width is 320px. Close the <object> with </div>
echo "\n<div style='margin:0px auto;width:320px'><object width=\"$v_width2\" height=\"$v_height2\">\n";
...others codes within...
echo "</object></div>\n\n";
If you can’t get it to work, you can always hire me to modify it.
Regards,
Denzel
hello
the video plugin works with firefox, chrome and safari perfect, but with internet explorer 7 and 8 there not show me the video.
any idea whats going wrong?
Hi,
After viewing your website source, you did not specify a video height.
Try entering the video height and it should solve your problem.
If you do not know what value to enter into your video height, try using 202 for your video height.
You source video on youtube is 425 x 344. You entered 250 as width for your video sidebar widget, enter 202 as height should keep the aspect ratio.
Regards,
Denzel
Actually, I have the same problem. Except I have both height and width filled in, and it still wont show me the video in IE 7 or 8 (don’t know about earlier versions). It appears to have trouble only with blip.tv videos, because Youtube ones work fine. Unfortunately, my client bought a blip.tv pro account, so we need to resolve this issue.
Otherwise, fantastic plugin! Thanks so much for the hard work.
Well, copying and pasting didn’t work, but no matter. I need to change it temporarily so they can launch the site. I’ll have a copy of the source code saved, so if you need, you can email me and I’ll send it to you directly. Thanks for your help.
Also, this is what it says in IE. The video player comes up, but the video doesnt. In its place is this:
“Error: No Feed
In order for the player to work, you need to pass it an xml feed. You can do this by passing it a ‘file’ parameter: showplayer.swf?=[file=the url of your feed].”
Just to reiterate, it’s working perfectly fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Hi,
I believe I have found the problem. Its the autostart value I added in the code. It works in all browsers excerpt IE and it is causing the Blip.tv video to not load at all in IE. Have no idea why it does not work in IE.
I will remove the autostart code now and update the plugin in WordPress SVN.
Regards,
Denzel
Is there anyway to hide the controller bar when embedding YouTube videos? I’ve tried a variety of flashvars to hide the controllbar but none seem to work. Any suggestions?
Hi Carl,
I do not know how to do it. Looking at examples from the YouTube API http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html
Which says that adding disablekb=1 to the embed code will disable the keyboard.
Tried adding that, but it doesn’t work.
Regards,
Denzel
Great plugin, I love it! But is there a way to add a link in the “Video Caption” box? I’ve tried adding standard html link code but it doesn’t work.
Thanks,
Drew
Hi,
I have done a small modification on the plugin codes. I have already emailed you the copy. Kindly delete the copy in your WordPress Admin before installing this copy.
Now, you can add a link to the caption using the following example.
<a href=’http://example.com’>Link to Example.com</a>
Regards,
Denzel
I tried the adding the example you should below but it does not work ? Can I get the version of the pluggin emailed to me as well ? Thanks and by the way great pluggin.
Hi,
Sent you the mentioned copy.
A donation would be nice.
Regards,
Denzel
Hi,
Great widget! I’m testing it locally before using on a server. Two questions:
1. Could you add DemocracyNow ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ) to the video source sites?
Right now, I’m interested in the video at the top of this page:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/2/israeli_journalist_amira_hass_on_the
2. The video has the following imbed code:
Is there a way to ‘trick’ the current version of the widget to take this script? Would love to be able to do it today…
Many Thanks!
Josephus
Hi Josephus,
The source of the video you mention are actually hosted on blip.tv
Please go to blip.tv and search for democracy now and you will find all the video there.
Or follow this link http://blip.tv/?search=democracy%20now;s=search;page=1
Just follow the instruction on how to embed video from blip.tv with Video Sidebar Widget.
Regards,
Denzel
Thank you very much for pointing me to the blip.tv site.
If you don’t have the answer to the following, it’s totally cool… I’m quite new at this. The original democracy-now script (without the script marks) allows for a specific segment to be clipped:
…type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.democracynow.org/embed_show_v1/300/2009/6/2/segment/3″>…
While the blip.tv embed code, including the ID, does not – instead, it includes the entire news program for that day (again, ‘embed’ removed):
… src=”http://blip.tv/play/AYGGoh4A” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”320″ height=”270″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”>…
I tried adding: /segment/3
right following the video id but it was ignored: the full video played. I’m interested in one segment only, and it is offered by the original clip that I found on the Democracy Now website.
Any suggestions on how I solve my problem? I expect I might have the same situation in the future and would be thrilled to come up with a long term solution.
Thanks again!
J
Hi Josephus,
There is a big difference between my plugin code and the embed codes you give.
My plugin is written in php and echo out html object and embed tags onto the webpage to show the video. The embed code you give at democracy now is a javascript code. It actually is a javascript code to pull in a big chunk of javascript code from democracy now, this code is generated by a javascript named swfobject.js. The player used on democracy now is JW player, I have mentioned in previous answer to request by other users.
This big chunk of javascript code is used to control the JW player, it embeds the player and is able to start the player at certain time and stops at a specified duration, with reference to the video link you give http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/2/israeli_journalist_amira_hass_on_the , have you notice the timeline of the JW player? It indicates 44.07 which means after you click on player it will start at 44.07 and ends at a fixed duration. It actually plays the whole video but starts at a certain time and ends at a certain duration to make it look like playing a clip. After the video plays, try dragging back the indicator at the time line all the way to the left, you will notice the video plays from the start at 00.00.
The source of the video is either from democracy now’s hosting server, or directly from blip.tv which allows direct access to flv files.
The solution for you is to find a JW player plugin that plays on sidebar, because at this moment my plugin does not support javascript codes, and does not support SWF players from private source, My plugin only supports videos from video sharing networks and not individual sites. Alternately, you can engage a developer to code you a JW player for your sidebar, which can pull in video source from your hosting server or blip.tv and you will be able to ask the developer to script the player to play the video from a specified duration.
Regards,
Denzel
Thank you very much, again, for your detailed and helpful coverage of the subject!
J
can you add an option of centering the embed videos ?
Hi Mark,
Will consider adding a div tag to wrap the flash object tag with a CSS class in the next update. User will be able to center the video, by writing CSS in their stylesheet.
Regards,
Denzel
Hi, i have a problem, i need to show my videos, but they are in godtube.com, the problem is that now godtube.com changed its name for tangle.com and this site is not supported by the “video widget plugin”. What can i do?
Hi,
I believe you have gone to the wrong plugin author to ask for support.
You can go to the video widget plugin author’s blog to ask for support for tangle.com.
My plugin is Video Sidebar Widgets and not Video Widgets.
If you are asking me to support tangle.com in my video sidebar widgets plugin, please make a request.
Thanks.
is it possible to add compatibility for local .flv files too?
I am not sure if this is the right plugin to use, but I am currently customizing a homepage for someone, and I need to insert some flvs onto the homepage. So I widgetized an area on the homepage, and now I need a player/widget t oplay flv files…
Hi,
Currently, I am unable to add playability for local flv files, because to play local flv files you need a SWF object embed script, such as swfobject.js which can be found here http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ to interface with a flv player, which is a SWF file such as JW player and finally interfacing with my plugin.
I still do not have the ability to fully understand the code of the embed script and flv player, and I do not wish to use software blindly without understanding them, as I will not be able to make it work if there is an update for the player or SWF object script.
The Video Widget created by nikohk from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-widget/ uses the old SWF object script and a free version of JW player to embed local flv files. Maybe you can reference to that. Or if you don’t mind, you can use Video Widget created by nikohk to rewrite using WordPress 2.8 Widgets API.
Regards,
Denzel
Hi Denzel,
You’re video sidebar widget is EXACTLY what I’m looking for but I need to be able to access the videos on my own server. Have you made any progress in that area since your last post on the matter?? The other widget you recommended is great, but it doesn’t pop out at all…so you have to see the vids super small.
Can you help? Thanks,
Joe and others….
Hi Joe,
Sorry no free modifications, just like what I had already put up in the notice in comments area.
I need to put food on table. If you help me, I will certainly help you..
thanks for the requested update that lets me see which clips are where so I can better manage, delete, add the clips I want. That hit the spot. I am going to donate! bgr
Hi BGR,
Great to here that! I have not received any donations before. I hereby thank you first for wanting to donate. I am putting up the donation link now.
And I will create a donation thank you list on my website, so that everyone who visits, knows who are the ones that truly appreciate my works!
The donation link is on the sidebar here http://denzeldesigns.com/wordpress-plugins/video-sidebar-widgets/
Thank you! You will be the first to be on the list! (P.S. will include a link to your site :) )
Regards,
Denzel
thanks for plugin but i can’t play from youtube show message “Embedding Disabed by request”
Hi,
That message means the user whom uploaded the video to youtube has specified a setting to disable embed outside youtube.
There is nothing we can do to overwrite that.
Regards,
Denzel
Hello Denzel from California.
I love the plugin it works so well that I want to add new content to the random widget like every other day.
But with just the clip ID it is hard to recall which one is which
Would there be a way to have a thumbnail to ID which clip is in each position.
Or be able to drag clips into position 1-5 so newest content can be at top
By adding some default to sort newsest content at top would allow one to simply replace the bottom clip without worry as it has already cycled thru
Hi BGR,
I can add a video name option which will be visible only in admin for identification, thumbnail option is not good as not all video networks have a thumbnail for their video. It will also add on a lot of codes just to pull in thumbnails from different sources.
To enable dragging of videos around would require JQuery programming knowledge, Sorry I do not know how to code JQuery.
Please wait for next update to include video name option as identification,
Thank you for using my plugin!
Regards,
Denzel
Hello,
I’ve just activated the Vid. Side Wig. . I can’t see any indication of it on my blog.
Do I need to upload a video?
I’m trying to figure this whole blog thing out, so I don’t even know what questions to ask. The first step to doing that is to see it and play around with it to see what it will and won’t do.
Thanks
Hi,
Go to widgets under Appearance to drag to sidebar and configure it. Save and it will show on blog.
Please refer to How to find Video IDs section for video ID reference.
Regards,
Denzel
yes, yes… there is a pretty cool new widget, and all people do is ask for new features… *lol*
me too… ;-)
any chance to see Google video included?
Otherwise I am perfectly happy with what it does – thanks a bunch!
Cheers
Martin
Hi Martin,
I will include Google Video for next update. I think its not very good to keep updating within a short period, users may not be happy to keep updating. Will wait for people asking for more features then!
Regards,
Denzel
Hey Denzel, good to know you are going to include GV!
you want more requests… errrr… lets see…. ;-)
- more vids, maybe. I’d say 10 would be cool. Or some preference pane where you can set the number.
- weighting. Setting the probability for the vids so some are shown more/less often.
- an optional short caption/title for each video, that could be displayed beneath the vid or in an overlay.
thats all I can think of right now. ;-)
cheers and keep it up
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the compliments. The caption idea is good. Will consider it.
Regards,
Denzel
Hai,
Your plugin does not work with WP 2.7, how can I fix this without upgrading?
Hi,
Sorry there is no way to fix it. WP 2.7 uses a different Widgets API with WP 2.8
This plugin is written using WP 2.8 Widgets API, however it only works properly in WP 2.8.1 after bug fixes by WordPress.
Which is why i release it only after WP 2.8.1 releases and states on the readme that it requires at least WP 2.8.1
Regards,
Denzel
Thanks for your widget plugin its a big help, but what if my video source is stored in a private server? Is it possible to add the link of the source instead of just choosing from the options provided?
Hi,
Sorry you can’t do that, because my video sidebar widget does not have an attached flash video player. It needs a flash video player to play directly from a video source.
Regards,
Denzel
Your Video Sidebar Widgets Plugin is really what we’ve been looking for. Thanks so much for programming and distributing it for free.
Best regards,
Chris from Germany
Tattoo-Designs.de
Hi,
You are welcome!
Never mind. figured it out!
Hi,
I should have explain it. Glad you figured it out.
Just drag the same widget to the sidebar again for a second video.
Thank for using my plugin.
Regards,
Denzel
How do you display multiple videos in one widget? I don’t see that option.
what do you mean? multiple videos in one widget? seems impossible right now… as far as I can see you can deploy multiple widgets, but not multiple videos in one widget, or am I wrong?
Hi, ovidiu
Thanks for the explanation, could not have phrase it better myself.
Thanks!
Hi everybody,
If you like my video sidebar widgets plugin, please kindly share with your friends by tweeting about it!
Thanks!
hi tehre. great plugin/widget. the point is, my favorite video widgets stopped working with recent wordpress versions, so your widget is certainly welcome, but its lacking some nice features. maybe you can have a look at the ones I used to use and incorporate some of the features?
i.e. having a list of videos show randomly in one widget, or having mini thumbnails and a thickbox player pop up?
Have a look, I am sure you’ll find some useful features: http://www.daikos.net/widgets/ I am referring to daiko’s youtube and video widget, the first two on that page.
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions. I will take a look at the plugins mentioned by you. Will probably implement similar features in future updates.
Thanks for using my widget.
Regards,
Denzel
thx. I am really looking forward, as those Daiko’s widgets were great, but the author doesn’t have hte time to update them, those widgets have some great features, i.e. you can combine videos from multiple sources, into one and have them display randomly…