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I have used the YouTube widget for 10 videos on my site when I first put it together about a year and a half ago, and now I am trying to add another video and all I get is a blank white box when I insert the embedded link. I am doing everything the same, and I also notice when I choose custom size for my embedded link, at 250 pixels wide, the height is 188 instead of about 140 for my older videos. What do I need to do to get my YouTube widget working correctly?
YouTube have changed the code that they provide when you embed their videos (just like Facebook, Twitter, AddThis and a load of other widget providers have), so insert the video as you have been and once you have published your website the video will display correctly (assuming you've inserted it correctly, on the MouseOff layer etc).
I tried to export and preview the website and still displayed the blank box, should I assume that publishing the website would result in a live video link? I'm hesitant to try this because I have moved things around to accommodate this one video, and if I publish the site and the video is not there, I would not be able to easily revert to my prior site. I am also curious about the sizing - instead of the window being 250x141 like the original videos, it is 250x188 and will throw the whole page off if this one video is inconsistent with the other 10.
Does this help any?
► http://xara-users.info/demos/embed-youtube-2013/
Nope, same results. I don't really want to upgrade, but just out of curiosity, is this an issue in Xara Web Designer 9? My only other option is to export only my videos page of the site and keep a copy of my original, then I guess use an FTP client instead of Xara to upload the single page. I would then be able to revert back in case this doesn't work without having to re-align every video on the page. I'm just hesitant because when I export and preview the video, I see the same blank white box.
Now assuming the publishing works, I would still have an issue with the sizing of the video link. All of the original videos are 250x141, but the YouTube widget now lays in as a 250x188 rectangle, inconsistent with the rest of the videos on the page.
why not create a new page in your website and name it test, insert your YouTube video onto it and publish your website. That way you can try the steps out in a new page rather than editing your existing pages.
If you've inserted YouTube widgte correctly then it will play on your live website on that test page. Please do that and post a link to that page if you're still having trouble with it.
It's not Xara embed code it's the code from YouTube. It's not an issue of Web Designer 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by advantagevideo
Notice how both Pete and I have mentioned that it may not play locally (from an explorer folder).. This is a YouTube change! Look at the code;
<iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/B59hvImwDe4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Notice anything missing?
If you manually edit this and add back the http: then you will (should) see the video work locally the same as before the YouTube change.
It should however play from the Xara Designer 'web preview' owing to the built-in web server of version 9, if it doesn't then I suspect you have local security issue preventing communication with YouTube.
And using the embed method as shown in the link in my previous will always create the video the exact same size as the code states, never smaller or larger.
If you are still experiencing problems, please attach your Xara file to your next post for inspection so we can see exactly what you are seeing :)
I've been trying to reply with my project file, but my posts don't appear. Inserting the http: worked and the video plays, but in my project file it's just a black box now (250x141, dimensions I manually edited), then there is a white box below it that appears to fill the remaining dimensions (250X188) that YouTube automatically set when I selected 250 as my width. I'll try again wwith the project file, my problem is I have another site with videos that has a watermark, and the white box covers it. I added a background color to this one so you can see the white box.
The reason for the white bar is becuase you have resized the placeholder differently to the size indication in the YouTube code.Quote:
Originally Posted by advantagevideo
You must make sure that the width and height of the video placeholder is the same size (and aspect ratio) as the YouTube code.
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Sometimes you might get a black placeholder if the server cannot be reached quickly enough for Designer to create a placeholder image, but this has nothing to do with how the video will play when published.
As you see above, it updated fine for me..
Great, I should've noticed that. Everything is looking good now, I appreciate all the help.
another solution is to download the video using YTD Video Downloader @ www.ytddownloader.com - you just insert the video's url into the ytd window and it downloads to your hard disk in MP4 format and then gives you options to convert to WMV, AVI, OR MP3 ( I got this info from the May 2013 Computer Active Mag) I find it very handyQuote:
Originally Posted by advantagevideo
This is a bad idea.
Downloading videos that don't belong to you in the first place then hosting them on your own website is a potential massive copyright violation.
You are right sledger - I should have made that point clear - on the other hand if you have permission to do it ( as my client has) its very usefulQuote:
Originally Posted by sledger
I have had the same trouble with the youtube embed code from youtube and have realized that youtube have taken out the http: from their address.
So will xara be doing an update to fix the youtube widget in the future, I have web designer 7 premium please.....
It is fixed in version 9
I am using Xara Web Designer MX Premium 8 and created a website at the beginning of last year. It is a very big site with well over 400 pages ~ I have had to create many small websites and have linked them that way.
It is basically a lyric site for a artist and on each page of lyrics for a particular song I have a Youtube (that I created and is currently on my YouTube account) video. When I created the site, I originally used the widget and it connected to my YouTube account and so inserted the video on my website in that way. When I created a new page for a new song with lyrics using the duplicated feature, I would just click on the video in the website where it said "Widget Edit" and I was automatically taken to my YouTube account and I would choose one of my videos and added the code and it would be automatically there and I could preview the page, play the video and then once finish. I would upload my pages using a FTP client.
Well, around 5 months have past as I was very sick, I decided to try continuing on my web page. This time, when opening Xara Web Designer, I went to my last page entered, duplicated the page.. did all the renaming, tags etc.
Then on the video I did exactly what I did 5 months ago but now when clicking "Widget EDIT" I get a message that reads....
"Can't find details of widget "YouTube".
This could be because you're not connected to the Internet (which I am) or because the widget has been disconnected.
Click the Help button for more information"
When I do read through it tells me to do what I was originally doing.
Does this mean I can't have a YouTube video on my site? Because that would be very sad as it took me months to create this site this far and I am not even half way yet!!!
Sorry for being long winded, but I wanted to try give you all the information as possible. Please can someone tell me what I should do next as I am stumped and would really like to continue with my website.
Thanks in advance for any help on this matter,
Greg
I have read every post on this thread and noticed some reasons why.... But the options to fix it, did not work for me...
Does this mean I would have to buy Version 9?
I just need an option. Thanks.
Greg
This may help: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...487#post495487