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Torley Novice
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Oct 14, 2008 10:51 AM

How do I include blip.tv videos?

Friendly greetings!

 

Evaluating Clearspace and I like the video embed function. I'm a videophile.

 

I see several services on there, but where's services like blip.tv and Xfire? The former has pretty good quality (not as good as the best Vimeo has to offer) and the latter is a massive gaming community with great quality when options are set correctly.

 

Please let me know how I can include blip.tv, Xfire, and other video sites. I understand this might be a security risk but I wish the whole Flash object embed code (from just about any site) could be included.

 

Thanx in advance!

Tags: video, forums, embed, blip.tv
todd.west Jive Employee
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Oct 16, 2008 10:17 AM in response to: Torley Wong
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Torley,

 

If you wanted to allow to Flash embed code this would be possible but will require you to edit a core file. Options are currently being researched to allow users to create custom macros which can insert potentially harmful HTML but nothing has been finalized yet. However, if you'd like to make this change in your instance (to allow this blocked HTML) I can tell you how. Thanks!

 

-Todd

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Oct 18, 2008 7:11 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Thanks a lot Todd (and I'll post to the Linden Lab area in the future).

 

I was just wondering this because of other important video-sharing sites which I'd like to have included. =)

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Nov 19, 2008 2:26 PM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

I would like to know how to allow blocked HTML.  Please let me know.

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Nov 19, 2008 2:42 PM in response to: Kevin Jones
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Kevin,

 

You need to take the following steps:

 

  1. Extract your clearspace-2.5.x.jar from your WEB-INF/lib/ directory
  2. Open up spring-renderContext.xml from the root of the extracted jar
  3. Edit the following bean to your liking:

        <bean id="htmlFilter" class="com.jivesoftware.community.renderer.filter.HTMLFilter" scope="prototype">
            <property name="enabled" value="true"/>
            <property name="relativify" value="false"/>
            <property name="allowedDomains" value="youtube.com, dailymotion.com, veoh.com, vimeo.com, google.com"/>
            <property name="excludedTags">
                <value>script, iframe, style, link, meta</value>
            </property>
            <property name="excludedAttributes">
                <value>on.*, dynsrc, lowsrc, action, method</value>
            </property>
            <property name="allowImageParams" value="true"/>
            <property name="xssRegistry" ref="xssExceptionRegistry"/>
        </bean>

  4. Save the file and repackge the jar (make sure you have a backup of the original jar)

 

 

Thanks.

 

-Todd

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Nov 19, 2008 7:47 PM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Todd,

Is this how I could add screencast.com to embed a Jing file too?

Our site is hosted by Jive.

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Nov 20, 2008 6:57 AM in response to: Wally Rogers
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Guys,

 

I thought I would put out an update here. I may have been wrong about embedding blip.tv videos. I am not sure if this functionality has changed recently (I think it may have) but you can show screencast.com as well as blip.tv videos without doing any editing of files. Here are the steps:

 

  1. Open the up the admin console
  2. Navigate to Spaces -> Settings -> Filters and Macros
  3. Click on Settings for the HTMLFilter
  4. Modify the list of allowedDomains to include your video site URL's:

    youtube.com, dailymotion.com, veoh.com, vimeo.com, google.com, screencast.com, blip.tv

  5. Save these settings
  6. Go create a new document, discussion, etc
  7. Click on the >> button in the RTE and click on "Insert Raw HTML"
  8. Copy your embed code for your video and paste it into this box
  9. Save your document, discussion, etc and everything should be displayed!

 

 

Please let me know if there are any questions. Thanks guys!

 

-Todd

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Nov 20, 2008 7:03 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Thanks for the update Todd, you may want to update the Blip.TV plugin page as well...I and someone else were asking about a version that worked for 2.5.

 

RR

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Nov 20, 2008 7:20 AM in response to: Ryan Rutan
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Ryan,

 

Unfortunately, the blip.tv macro is not a supported plugin so I am not really able to do anything with it (it would need to be re-written to be compatible with 2.5). I can edit the plugin page to put up a notice of some kind though, is there something you had in mind?

 

-Todd

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Nov 20, 2008 7:23 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

That's fine...I will see if I can find time to rebundle it and make it work for 2.5 and upload it to the site.  In the mean time, I'll post a reference to this thread. =)

 

RR

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Nov 20, 2008 7:25 AM in response to: Ryan Rutan
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Great! sounds good. Thanks Ryan.

 

-Todd

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Nov 20, 2008 9:02 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Todd,

That worked perfectly.  I found I had to adjust the default pixel size but that is all.  Here it is.

 

How to Create a Task.

 
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Nov 20, 2008 9:04 AM in response to: Wally Rogers
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Wally,

 

Great! Thanks for the update I am glad to hear that this worked for you. Thanks!

 

-Todd

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Dec 17, 2008 3:07 PM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

I'm confirming that Todd's proposal worked for me and blip.tv.

 

Thanks!

dfiel Intermediate
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Feb 6, 2009 10:05 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Is there a way to extend the list of video sites in the Insert Video control?

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todd.west Jive Employee
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Feb 6, 2009 10:07 AM in response to: dfiel
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Not without changing core files. These 5 video sites are precoded and included as part of the Rich Text Editor.

 

-Todd

dfiel Intermediate
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Feb 6, 2009 10:10 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Please put in an RFE to have these sites added to a future release.  Raw HTML will be fine for the interim.

blakebmc Intermediate
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Feb 27, 2009 2:40 PM in response to: dfiel
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

We have followed the steps. It works fine in Firefox, but in IE6 when using the embed macro from Blip.tv for a video it hangs up and never displays the video. Is there any IE6 bugs or work arounds you are aware of?

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Feb 27, 2009 2:53 PM in response to: blakebmc
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hey Blake,

 

Yes. If you are running 2.5.7 there is a known issue with IE6 and the RTE (CS-12002) which will be fixed in 2.5.8. The classid attribute is getting stripped out (it shouldn't be neccesary) but for some reason IE6 needs it to even render the video.

 

-Todd

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Feb 27, 2009 2:58 PM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Thanks. We are running 2.5.4 so assume its similar issue and needing us to upgrade to 2.5.8.

dfiel Intermediate
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Feb 27, 2009 3:37 PM in response to: blakebmc
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Do you know the planned release date for 2.5.8?

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Feb 27, 2009 3:54 PM in response to: dfiel
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Somewhere around mid-late march I believe.

 

-Todd

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Apr 2, 2009 8:22 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Same IE6 issue is in 2.5.9. Was this scrapped from the 2.5.8 and 2.5.9 release? Still doing the same thing it was in 2.5.4.

 

In addition now when the macro is inserted and published it works fine in content posts. However, if any additional edits are made it wipes out the macro code and overwrites it with:

 

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="234" width="384">
<param name="src" /><embed width="384" height="234" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object>

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Feb 6, 2009 10:16 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Why am I not seeing the Spaces -> Settings -> Filters and Macros?  I remember that it was there previously.  Did it move in 2.5.4?

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Feb 6, 2009 10:18 AM in response to: Kevin Jones
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Sorry, never mind.  I was looking in System--> Settings instead of Communities-->Settings.

 

Obviously the letter "S" confuses me.

FrankFerter Novice
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Feb 6, 2009 10:24 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

OK - trying to embed http://video.yahoo.com/watch/10577117/10577117and added yahoo.com (also tried video.yahoo.com) to the allowedDomains but it did not work.

 

What am I missing?

todd.west Jive Employee
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Feb 6, 2009 11:14 AM in response to: Kevin Jones
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

What is the embed code that you are using?

 

-Todd

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Feb 6, 2009 11:42 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

I picked a random video (several, in fact) and tried it.  Here is one of the codes I am pulling from a video.  I have pasted it both in the HTML section and the >> Raw HTML and neither worked.

 

<div><object width="512" height="322"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.34" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="AllowScriptAccess" VALUE="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="flashVars" value="id=11805583&vid=4401248&lang=en-us&intl=us&thumbUrl=http%3A//us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sch/cn/video08/4401248_rnda111951d_19.jpg&embed=1" /><embed src="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.34" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="322" allowFullScreen="true" AllowScriptAccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" flashVars="id=11805583&vid=4401248&lang=en-us&intl=us&thumbUrl=http%3A//us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sch/cn/video08/4401248_rnda111951d_19.jpg&embed=1" ></embed></object><br /><a href="http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4401248/11805583">Man Pulls Six 10-Ton Trucks</a> @ <a href="http://video.yahoo.com" >Yahoo! Video</a></div>

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Feb 6, 2009 10:42 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Tried step 7. I use the option "insert raw html." It then brought into the content window the gray box with the single line and horizontal scroller. Within it, I pasted in the video macro. When I submit the doc and approve it, the finish result is a blank document and the video doesn't show.

 

If I use the HTML viewer and place the video macro code in that way, it works fine.

 

Just seeing if by chance I'm missing something in using the method described in step 7.

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Feb 6, 2009 12:37 PM in response to: blakebmc
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Code I'm using is:

 

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://blip.tv/play/6wDqjx8A" allowfullscreen="true"  id="showplayer" height="390" width="640"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://blip.tv/play/6wDqjx8A" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="flashvars" value="thumb=http://www.bmctv.com/videos/forrester-says-bmc-is-in-the-best-shape/video_image" /><embed   wmode="transparent" flashvars="thumb=http://www.bmctv.com/videos/forrester-says-bmc-is-in-the-best-shape/video_image" src="http://blip.tv/play/6wDqjx8A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
blakebmc Intermediate
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Feb 6, 2009 12:38 PM in response to: blakebmc
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

When using it with the RAW HTML insert (which doesn't work and is blank) and straight inserting it into the document using the HTML viewer, the code looks like this (the 1st option is RAW HTML insert and second is the manual insert using HTML viewer):

 

<body><pre class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_code" jivemacro="code" ___default_attr="html"><p>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://blip.tv/play/6wDqjx8A" allowfullscreen="true"  id="showplayer" height="390" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://blip.tv/play/6wDqjx8A" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="thumb=http://www.bmctv.com/videos/forrester-says-bmc-is-in-the-best-shape/video_image" /&gt;&lt;embed   wmode="transparent" flashvars="thumb=http://www.bmctv.com/videos/forrester-says-bmc-is-in-the-best-shape/video_image" src="http://blip.tv/play/6wDqjx8A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</p></pre>
<p> </p>
<p>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="390" width="640">
<param name="id" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" />
<param name="wmode" />
<param name="flashvars" />
<param name="src" /><embed width="640" height="390" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object>
</p></body>

Jacks@GTSServices.com Novice
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Nov 20, 2008 8:38 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Wouldn't you also need to edit this section of the spring-renderContext.xml file, adding in the additional domains?

 

        <property name="allowedDomains">
            <list>
                <value>youtube.com</value>
                <value>dailymotion.com</value>
                <value>veoh.com</value>
                <value>vimeo.com</value>
                <value>google.com</value>
                <value>yahoo.com</value>
                <value>screencast.com</value>
                <value>blip.tv</value>
            </list>
        </property>

todd.west Jive Employee
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Nov 20, 2008 8:38 AM in response to: Jack Stockton
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Jack,

 

You can add these to the list by using the Admin console and the steps listed above, it does the same thing.

 

-Todd

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Nov 20, 2008 9:35 AM in response to: Todd West
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Thanks.  Adding blip.tv and even scribd.com worked by adding it to the HTML filter.  But slideshare.net did not.  Any hunches as to why that would not?  When adding the player to a page, the player appears but the content does not.    

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Nov 20, 2008 9:43 AM in response to: Kevin Jones
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hey Kevin,

 

Adding slideshare.net to my allowed domains and then copy/pasting the code from the slideshare.net site worked for me in 2.5.4:

 

slideshare.png

 

-Todd

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Nov 20, 2008 10:43 AM in response to: Kevin Jones
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

We use the slideshare plugin on 2.5, and to my knowledge it works....have you tried that?  It's under the Plugin download section.....

 

Hope that helps, =)

 

RR

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Nov 20, 2008 11:11 AM in response to: Ryan Rutan
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Ya, we have tried Todd's way and the plugin, but no go.  Odd.  It just spins.  With the plugin, we just have to add the embed code, correct?

slideshare.png

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Nov 20, 2008 11:20 AM in response to: Kevin Jones
Re: How do I include blip.tv videos?

Hi Kevin,

 

Something else must be going on here, network wise. I tried removing the slideshare.net domain from my list and I did not get the same functionality you showed. The fact that the player is showing up but the slides aren't loading appears to indicate a network issue of sometime. But I can say for sure that clearspace isn't blocking it, since the player loaded.

 

-Todd

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