Adrian Moseley
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| 06/02/2007 4:31 PM |
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| Can I add my YouTube Videos to the Video Gallery? If not, is that something we can hope for in another release? |
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Pengtsen R
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| 06/03/2007 8:57 AM |
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You can add internet flv to UVG, but it seems you can't find out the url of a youtube video.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Emilio Dabdoub
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| 06/20/2007 3:51 AM |
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dont know if it is legal or not, but check:
http://keepvid.com/
it obtains the video URL of youtube (and other sites) |
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Pengtsen R
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| 06/20/2007 9:32 AM |
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Yes, this is a working solution if no legal problems, I just tried it.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/09/2007 9:14 PM |
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another trick:
if you can find out the url of a youtube video, you can add it to UVG as an internet video, however, you also have to specify the url of the screenshot, otherwise UVG will use a default picture as its screenshot.
you can make the screenshot by your self, or use the default one on youtube, to use the default screenshot, please follow these steps.
at first, you should find out the youtube id of a youtube video, when you browse a youtube video, the url of the youtube player looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX&feature=dir
The XXXXXXXXXXX part is its youtube id.
now copy and paste this id to this url:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/XXXXXXXXXXX/default.jpg
to replace XXXXXXXXXXX part, the replaced string will be the url of the screenshot.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Fabrice Caporal
Posts:42
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| 07/12/2007 11:46 AM |
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This works great with YouTub... Do you happen to have the same information from Google videos?
I have quite a few large video on Google as they accept videos more than 10 mn long. Also using Google video allows me to save on my server bandwidth. So for these videos I would prefer to keep them on the Google server.
I've tried the get_video trick but it didn’t work. I've also tried to use the link provided by KeepVid but it didn't work either.
As an example what would be the link to view http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5426933764767977068
using UVG with the video being saved on Google server?
This is a great product!
Alternatively so that we wouldn't have to hunt for the video ID and find work arround, would it be possible to have the Add Video functionality accept the <embed tags from all the video sites?
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/12/2007 8:31 PM |
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I tried to retrieve the url of a google video, but I got a 403 forbidden error, did you get same error?
if the add video module accept embed code, then your video will not be played with UVG player, you will see multiple players on your website if you emded video from multiple video sites.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Fabrice Caporal
Posts:42
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| 07/13/2007 12:57 AM |
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[quote]Posted By Pengtsen R on 07/12/2007 8:31 PM
I tried to retrieve the url of a google video, but I got a 403 forbidden error, did you get same error?
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I didn't see any error message. The only thing I get is the wight screen...
[quote]Posted By Pengtsen R on 07/12/2007 8:31 PM
if the add video module accept embed code, then your video will not be played with UVG player, you will see multiple players on your website if you emded video from multiple video sites.
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In my case this would be fine as the rating and comments remain outside the player. I understand your concern of "homogenization" but in my humble opinion the decision of wither this is OK or not should remain from the site owner. You could add a disclaimer if the user decide to use that option and you could turn on/off the option at the module level. |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/13/2007 7:31 AM |
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| Fabrice, thanks for your suggestions, I'll consider it. |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Fabrice Caporal
Posts:42
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| 07/13/2007 10:31 AM |
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| Calling on your great experience, and if I get the source code, how extensive of a change would that be? |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/13/2007 11:19 AM |
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UVG and UMG are well designed and neatly written, many clients said my products are easy to understand and enhance.
I think it should not be a difficult job for experienced developers to add this feature.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Fabrice Caporal
Posts:42
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| 07/13/2007 1:48 PM |
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I just bought UVG and UMG standard as a package, how much would it cost me to upgrade to enterprise with source?
Do I need to upgrade both or can I upgrade only UVG? |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/13/2007 10:50 PM |
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you can upgrade to UMG src and UVG src with upgrading discount,your payment in standard edition will be deducted.
if you upgrade to UVG src only, you can get discount to deduct your payment on UVG standard edition, but you can't get 20% bonus discount for UMG src.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Fabrice Caporal
Posts:42
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| 07/16/2007 10:01 PM |
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I think I found out what goes wrong with Google...
Using KeepVID you can find the path for the flv file. For eg the video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3091024103744025134 can be downloaded at the following path:
http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=twAAAG_F3BMGHQJcniFvb9m1qUx2iAApJomUlptiHh73iVkMQnZLSuJ6m7FcCO0f2Z7zIzBPQDXgzt35yYT7dftnRfSr6NlPSXS139EMt6tD0YDDCsAI5BvzrlyTXFQ5k4QRAnHMpcJRsBTbiLj29TrNSWu9tmbVsZG7u5803Ud_Seg-Y6f6SVDw1AMAhohg0JIyOrr5BobZzFcCmPRa_MKhR_ee979p826VXXKaKhIxFD59gRFfUtGR3Fstb3IPiURjxw&sigh=NTwwX640ASK5fqsBbqfgGLTHW94&begin=0&len=6401295&docid=3091024103744025134
The problem is that this path is 403 character long and the VideoPath field is limited to 200 characters.
I have tried to change the VideoPath field in the database to Varchar(600) but it seems that the business layer keep trimming the data at 200 characters. Since you have the code, if you make the change to allow the longer path, are you able to view the video? |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/17/2007 10:41 AM |
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you also have to edit UVG_VideoAdd and UVG_VideoUpdate stored procedures, in these sps videopath is also limited to 200.
You can try to change them, and let me know if it works.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Fabrice Caporal
Posts:42
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| 07/18/2007 6:11 PM |
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It works! That's a big relief...
I had to do the same changes for the thumbnail fields. To get the thumbnail image in FireFox I right click on the image on the Top Left corner of the Google page and select copy image path. |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 07/19/2007 5:58 AM |
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ok, I'll integrate it in future versions.
thanks. |
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Buck Anderson
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| 08/05/2007 11:30 AM |
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Could somebody please clarify the procedure to grab the YouTube URL at http://keepvid.com/?
I place the YouTube URL in the textbox, select YouTube from the dropdown box, click download and then you get the download link which gices you the ability to save a file called getVideo.
How do you locate the link of the video needed to add to UVG?
TIA |
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Pengtsen R
Posts:11533
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| 08/05/2007 5:05 PM |
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right click the download link -> Propeties -> and copy the url to UVG will work.
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Pengtsen R
http://www.bizmodules.net |
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Jeff Waters
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| 12/08/2007 9:09 AM |
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Hello,
I previously used UMG last year and loved it. Have just stumbled across UVG and can't believe my eyes! Ok, I want to incorporate this very soon. I had been looking into ways to use this tool:
www.magnify.net
But, your solution is MUCH better for what I need. My primary focus is giving my members the ability to constantly search all the major video sites (like youtube) for videos that are relevent to our topic. Then, other people investigating this topic can find everything they want all in one place.
So, the ability to point to youtube, revver, google video, etc URLs from UVG would be very important to me. I'm not convinced many of my members will go through the steps with KeepVid described above to find the youtube URL, though. They really should be able to just copy and paste the URL in the address bar from the youtube video and copy and paste that into UVG. Then UVG should be able to intelligently figure out the real video URL on the youtube server.
I'd be happy with just Youtube and Google Video... but, maybe you could put a drop down box next to that URL so the member can select which service they are using (Google, Youtube, Brightcove, etc) and then UVG could execute some code behind the scenes to figure out the URL (maybe using Keepvid automtically?).
Could you comment on the possiblitity of adding something like this? Otherwise, I fear none of my members will be interested in adding videos. Again, take a look at magnify.net to see how they handle this:
http://support.magnify.net/publish/
Thanks!
Jeff |
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