Tech Issue: Video Embed (Youtube) does not function properly.

I hope this is an easy fix. Thanks a bunch in advance Cobb, for keeping this place running.

General complaint is that we simply cannot use the embed function. It's maybe an issue with not doing it right in the coding department of things or Youtube may have changed their Embed Code slightly, which is throwing the site's features off.

Thanks again for looking into this.

Test embed.



...and edit in HTML.

You can apparently embed without the nabble_embed tag. Just by using making the post HTML format and the embed code.

Right. I'll put the workaround up as a forum announcement.

Test for someone without Admin privileges. I can't remember if iframes are restricted, but it seems like they might be.

Edit: Nope, it works.

RPTestSubject wrote

<p>Test for someone without Admin privileges.  I can't remember if iframes are restricted, but it seems like they might be.</p>
<p>Edit: Nope, it works.</p>

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/r6VCnYkNYLo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

People have to learn HTML now. They will be confused as to why there are no Breaks in the paragraphs.

Good to see that it works though.

noklu, please remind me to do two things:

a. ask Nabble about this bug

b. consider changing BBCode to HTML button from regex-based to a parser if I can find a good one out there (I made one but am unsure of its quality)

Facebook or email reminders are preferred.

Yeah, they will have to learn the paragraph tag, but that will be sufficient for most of them.If they want to do more, they can.  But they'd only need to use it in the posts where they are embedding a video.

Confirmed. Embed does not function if wrapped in Nabble tags, regardless of whether HTML is enabled. If unwrapped and put in an HTML-enabled post, it works.

I've inquired about the matter at Nabble Support.

The problem is a regex issue. If you modify the IFRAME's SRC and add an https: protocol to the URL, then it will match and the NABBLE_EMBED tag will work.

It seems like Nabble's been maintaining these regexes, so instead of fixing it with my own NAML override, I've informed them of the problem. Hopefully, it'll be fixed soon. In the meantime, just tack on that HTTP or HTTPS -- and keep it lowercase. The resulting code should look like the following:

<nabble_embed><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZEBGCOCxLgA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></nabble_embed>