[TYPO3-english] YouTube videos with media element

[Lorenz Ulrich]

Hi everyone

I compared the handling of 4.6 and 4.7 to get one step further in this 
problem:

- TYPO3 4.6 has a flag "Use Player (Flash only)". When this is checked, 
TYPO3 tries to play a video with the Flash Player.

- This "TYPO3 Media Player" (contrib/flashmedia/swfplayer.swf) cannot 
play YouTube videos.

- Unchecking the Player checkbox in 4.6 sets the YouTube/v URL itself as 
player (typo3\sysext\cms\tslib\content\class.tslib_content_media.php, l. 
188). The YouTube player is correctly rendered then.

- The option to deactive the player is missing in TYPO3 4.7. Therefore 
the YouTube player itself will never be rendered and YouTube videos 
cannot be played with the Media element in 4.7.

Can someone confirm that?

I just googled about using the FlowPlayer to play YouTube videos. But 
obiously this is only possible with a commercial plugin 
(http://flowplayer.electroteque.org/youtube). So basically my conclusion 
would be that we need to have back the SWF rendering with the YouTube 
SWF as player.

Side note: Funnily Vimeo videos seem to work...

Thanks for sharing your opinions on that.

Best regards,

Lorenz

Am 25.05.2012 11:59, schrieb Lorenz Ulrich:
> Hi Chris
>
> Thanks for your investigation. I'm currently working on a 4.7 migration
> and seem to have the same problem. Youtube videos don't work. Did you
> come closer to solve the problem?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lorenz
>
> Am 16.05.2012 13:25, schrieb Chris Müller:
>> Hi Kay,
>>
>> I pasted the YouTube share url into the field "Path or URL to fallback
>> video source" and let all other field untouched but get the flash player
>> in frontend. But then I got only an empty flash player. I switched to
>> the render type "Native HTML Embed Element" but this has also no
>> effects. I tried also the various input fields to paste the youtube url.
>> Nothing happens.
>>
>> Then I digged into the code. The correct place is "Path or URL to
>> fallback video source". The YouTube URL is later correctly changed from
>> the youtu.be to the to the youtube/v/ syntax.
>>
>> I ended in the method tslib_content_Multimedia->render().
>> I got the filename (the Youtube URL) in the render() method and then it
>> calls $GLOBALS['TSFE']->tmpl->getFileName(). This method only works with
>> local files, so the output is empty.
>>
>> So it seems urls from youtube, vimeo, etc. aren't working.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris.
>>
>> Am 15.05.2012 12:02, schrieb Kay Strobach:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> theoretically you can add the video url to the media field and disabling
>>> all players should let you show the video.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Kay
>>>
>>> Am 15.05.2012 11:57, schrieb Daniel Huf:
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> I didn't find more infos than this...
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-project-v4/2012-January/thread.html#3267
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Keep us informed ;)
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> On 5/15/12 11:41 AM, Chris Müller wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> it is possible to use the new media element in TYPO3 4.7 to include
>>>>> YouTube videos? I didn't find a field which I can use to include the
>>>>> video link.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Chris.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>