HI,
When replying to a forum post or adding a new topic, the uploading file area of the webpage takes a long time to appear and function normally. It seems the server's trying to connect to www.youtube.com which is, however, not available here, and thus the problem.
How to prevent the server from connecting to youtube stealthily? Thanks!
Well, it's not really stealth... Go to Site Admin > Plugins > Repositories > Manage Repositories - and set the YouTube repository to disabled.
Thanks for replying.
Well, the Youtube video repository is already set to be disabled by default, but...
The server tries to connect to Youtube even when everything related to Youtube is disabled or delected,such as the repository_youtube.php.
It's ok with Moodle 3.1, but for Moodle 3.2, this is an annoying problem.
Still the same after deleting these files.
I wouldn't recommend deleting files!
I am going to guess that its the new media players introduced in 3.2, try disabling them in Plugins ▶︎ Media players ▶︎ Manage media players.
(I think we should take steps to stop this breaking in such a scenario, I think it would be worth creating a bug in the tracker for it when we find the cause)
Thanks! Yesterday I disabled the "Multimedia plugins" filter and it worked. Disabling them in plugins didn't work, which I tried days ago.
By the way, the progress bar for uploading files seems to have disappeared in Moodle 3.2 +. You won't know how long it will take to upload a file. How to get it back?
By the way, the progress bar for uploading files seems to have disappeared in Moodle 3.2
In boost? Looks like you've found a bug, i've reported it as MDL-57560
Thanks Dan - I noticed that over Christmas when I was uploading videos into our Learn Moodle MOOC but I was too holidayed-out to search for and report it
Thanks! Yesterday I disabled the "Multimedia plugins" filter and it worked. Disabling them in plugins didn't work, which I tried days ago.
Can I ask which browser are you using? I have tried to block youtube myself and I don't experience this problem - do you know if whatever is blocking youtube is returning a page with it or a non-succesful http code?
I am using chrome. But I tried IE and firefox, too. The browser seemed to have nothing to do with it.
I guess when a webpage, such as a forum post, is loaded, the "Multimedia plugins" filter will try to connect to youtube. If Youtube is available, it's ok. If not (for example, blocked), the webpage will be loaded quickly and fully, but with the webpage busy running as the following picture shows:
As there is no trouble editing the post or saving it, the busy running may not be noticed. When it comes to the file uploading, it becomes a problem.
It seems you won't experience the problem, with youtube-related plugins disabled or not, if visiting youtbe is ok (either not blocked or through ways to bypass the block) .
It happened in the background and IE and Chrome just told you it was "connecting". I didn't know what it was trying to connect to until I tried firefox. There wasn't "a non-succesful http code" or things like that. The browser just tried and tried ( usually more than twelve seconds, while on rare occasions just two seconds) before it gave up and became normal. Maybe a sniffing tool can give more information.
I guess it's the multimedia plugins filter that is responsible for this problem, not the multimedia plugins.
By the way, with Moodle 3.1, you can just paste into a forum post with the original format kept, such as the fontcolor:
Where is the color (the original color here is red)
It's a pity some format gets lost with Moodle 3.1.2 up. Can we have it back?
Hi everyone
I did not see this discussion early enough, so I posted a similar question on https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=345425. Discussing the issue on 2 places does not make sense, so here is my post again. I really think this should be fixed...
Best,
Samuel
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When using the VideoJS-player with Moodle 3.2 on a testing server or in the MAMP-environment, a youtube javascript
is loaded every time when loading a page from Moodle (it does not
matter whether loading the dashboard, settings, a course, an activity or
anything else). I have seen this when using Firefox
with NoScript. I have turned off the youtube block, the youtube
respository, have unchecked the global setting "media_videojs |
youtube", no help. Only when turning off the VideoJS-Player (by "closing
the eye" in the global settings), youtube-javascripts are not loaded
anymore.
Is there any other way to let Moodle avoid loading a
Youtube-javascript with every page? It would be unfortunate if I had to
turn off the VideoJS-player on our Moodle-server due to data-protection
issues. I guess the IP-address and probably additional information is
transmitted to google when loading the youtube-javascript, and in this
case, I have a rather large problem with the data protection regulations
which we have to comply to.
If there is no other way to avoid
loading the Youtube-Javascript, I suspect a lot of institutions outside
the US (especially in the European Union) will have a problem with
Moodle 3.2/VideoJS-Player, and I would therefore create an issue on
tracker.moodle.org.
Go to Site admin > Plugins > Media players > VideoJSplayer > Settings, and uncheck YouTube videos.
See if that does not stop the polling of YouTube every time.
It's still a bug if it happens on every page even if there is no reference to a YouTube video on the page, but perhaps that will turn it off and isolate the issue.
Hi Everyone,
I have created a bug about this issue - MDL-57608
Samuel,
Right, I experience the same thing.
Looks to me like there is code in the page below the footer in an inline script that has a set of require statements for videojs, one of which is:
require(["media_videojs/Youtube"]);So clearly that is being loaded despite the settings.
Dan - Thanks for the tracker!
