I want to embed a youtube video in a course but here is what doesn't work:
I can try to embed a video, insert the youtube url I want and see that video display correctly in draft mode, but as soon as I save in the place of the youtube video what displays is a 404 error page of my website inside of a frame.
Which setting did I miss to tweak?
Your help is much appreciated
Update: the challenge seems to come from the media embedding filter. If I turn it off then at least I can link to a youtube video.
I also tried using the https://moodle.org/plugins/view/atto_generico plugin. The youtube video thumbnail displays fine, but the nothing shows in the lightbox.
So... Something somewhere in my setup is blocking moodle from accessing youtube, but what, and where?
Interesting.
-Derek
Lets assume its not because you live in North Korea or China ..
I think you probably have two filters going at the same youtube link. When this happens filter a, turns a YouTube link into "something." And then filter B comes alongs and turns "something" into "something else."
This is a bit unusual because generally only the multimedia plugins filter handles YouTube links. Although my own video filter VideoEasy can too. I wonder by chance, do you have that installed? Generico is less likely to be the culprit here because it only filters on the funny looking Generico strings, ie not YouTube links.
Try turning off all the filters you have one by one, and just leave the Generico one in place. If it sputters into life you will know that the filter you turned off (or the generico one) were interfering with things.
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The filter "Convert URLs into links and images" was the culprit. I uninstalled it and that fixed everything.
Great stuff. I am glad you got it working.
Just FYI. It can be enough to just change the order of the filters. So if the multimedia plugins filter was above the autolinking filter, you might be able to use both of them without getting into trouble.
It maybe your filters causing a problem, you really need to check the html output and compare it to what you are expecting.
Another way to add Youtube is to enable the Youtube repository type and embed with that instead.
Hi all,
I had the same problem and found changing the filter settings resolved things...but in 2.8.3 with forum posts being sent out, the embedded clip doesn't appear in the email...so you end up with a slightly odd email that might mention a YouTube clip, but then doesn't display it.
Any ideas?
Phil
URL filter ABOVE / BEFORE multimedia filter USED TO work.
But I think this no longer does work in M2.8 (I use a site without any extra multimedia filter / plugins installed)
I think you just need to add some text and use the editor to attach a link to it using the YT video address, and that should work. Just recently discovered that with my class.
So here below I have typed "Video" and added hyperlink over it - works:
Though in this forum and on this site it seems enough to just drop the YT URL into the editor and the filters do the rest of the work. I've done this below
I wonder how either of these will show in the email
Thanks, but neither show....I just get black boxes.
I found on our Moodle install that disabling "Convert URLs into links and images" got rid of those black boxes, but didn't bring back displaying the embedded videos.
Phil
I've raised an issue here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-49068
I cannot find a way to get this to work, and I've had no evidence of anyone saying they can get this to work in 2.8+
-Derek
