Problems with video links
Jul 22, 2017 | 11:23 am
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Problems with video links
Previously, FT would properly play truncated youtube videos, such as: "https://youtu.be/If3SXJeZzMQ?t=27"
The URL above would only play the video content starting 27 seconds into the video.
Now, if I put such a link into a post, FT insists on displaying the entire video, not just that portion after t=27.
It displays properly when I preview the post, but when I submit the post what displays is the entire video.... as illustrated below.
Solution?
The URL above would only play the video content starting 27 seconds into the video.
Now, if I put such a link into a post, FT insists on displaying the entire video, not just that portion after t=27.
It displays properly when I preview the post, but when I submit the post what displays is the entire video.... as illustrated below.
Solution?
Jul 22, 2017 | 12:41 pm
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The plugin that translates the youtube URL to the embed is ignoring the "&t=" parameter. I've seen similar issues in some embeds using the shortlink version of the youtube URL versus the longer URL but a quick test here says that's not it.
The URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3SXJeZzMQ&t=27 translates to http://www.youtube.com/v/If3SXJeZzMQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1 and you can see the "27" part is stripped off.
The URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3SXJeZzMQ&t=27 translates to http://www.youtube.com/v/If3SXJeZzMQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1 and you can see the "27" part is stripped off.
Jul 23, 2017 | 9:46 am
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The plugin that translates the youtube URL to the embed is ignoring the "&t=" parameter. I've seen similar issues in some embeds using the shortlink version of the youtube URL versus the longer URL but a quick test here says that's not it.
The URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3SXJeZzMQ&t=27 translates to http://www.youtube.com/v/If3SXJeZzMQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1 and you can see the "27" part is stripped off.
The URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3SXJeZzMQ&t=27 translates to http://www.youtube.com/v/If3SXJeZzMQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1 and you can see the "27" part is stripped off.
Jul 26, 2017 | 1:49 pm
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But, I can post the url into a word document, click on the link, and it properly plays the truncated video. So, this would suggest that the problem is with FT, not with youtube.