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Title: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Sat 13/08/2016 08:57:01
Hi

for some reason ags embeded videos do not play and just show a black screen. This has recently began to happen.

You tube videos play ok.

I have Flash player version 22,0,0,209 installed with Chrome.

Any ideas?

cheers
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: AnasAbdin on Sat 13/08/2016 09:06:49
I noticed this yesterday as well. I even opened IE to see if it's only a chrome issue since the videos worked fine on my android phone. I OPENED IE! :~(
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Sat 13/08/2016 09:08:11
....And on Firefox...

I am not alone then?

cheers
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Khris on Sat 13/08/2016 09:49:35
It still works for me on Firefox (and correctly uses the HTML player) while Chrome seems to use the flash player, which is stuck on a black screen. IE also uses the flash player.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Sat 13/08/2016 10:02:16
Apparently

Chrome starts retiring Flash in favor of HTML5
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Cassiebsg on Sat 13/08/2016 10:18:20
My old version (no longer supported by youtube) is also showing me a black embed video, worse is following the "watch on youtube" clears the link and directs me to the main page instead of the video. :-\ Maybe I need to finally upgrade my firefox. :~( I really hate the new one.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Jack on Sat 13/08/2016 10:35:11
Yes, the new firefox "toddler/tablet" layout sucks ass through a straw.

I keep hoping some day someone who actually knows how version numbers work will fork it an restore the original vision of firefox. Some of us still retain our opposable thumbs.

All thanks to blindly following the broken robots at google (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ4sR4S74xQ).
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Cassiebsg on Sat 13/08/2016 11:01:09
uhm? Who's talking about mobile version? ???
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Problem on Sat 13/08/2016 11:11:43
The videos still work for me on Firefox.

@Cassie: Completely off-topic, but I'm quite happy with this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Khris on Sat 13/08/2016 13:02:35
Still off-topic, but what exactly is wrong with Firefox (48.0)? I have my standard menu in the upper left, below that my tabs and address bar. In the top right are the search bar and a few buttons I occasionally use, and that's it. How is this significantly different from earlier versions?
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Snarky on Sat 13/08/2016 14:17:50
I'm pretty sure this is on the wrong board, but I'm not sure where to move it.

What are you actually talking about? Videos embedded in posts on the AGS forums? But YouTube videos work? So what's an example of one that doesn't?

Quote from: Khris on Sat 13/08/2016 13:02:35
Still off-topic, but what exactly is wrong with Firefox (48.0)? I have my standard menu in the upper left, below that my tabs and address bar. In the top right are the search bar and a few buttons I occasionally use, and that's it. How is this significantly different from earlier versions?

Personally my big complaint is that they took away the option to run unsigned add-ons. There's an old key-control remapper that I've been using to make the controls more like classic Opera for almost ten years, and now it won't work. I'll have to switch to a fork.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Ponch on Sat 13/08/2016 14:28:03
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 13/08/2016 14:17:50
I'll have to switch to a fork.
Pale Moon! :cheesy:
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Cassiebsg on Sat 13/08/2016 15:01:12
For me it's the buttons. For ages I couldn't even find the stop/refresh button... until my husband mentioned it was at the end of the url line. 8-0
I like that addon Problem posted though. (nod)

Quote from: Snarky on Sat 13/08/2016 14:17:50
What are you actually talking about? Videos embedded in posts on the AGS forums? But YouTube videos work? So what's an example of one that doesn't?

Well... the one you posted on the conspiracy thread for one. First time I saw a black embeded video, and then slasher posted this thread...
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Snarky on Sat 13/08/2016 15:08:08
But Slasher said YouTube videos play OK, and that is a YouTube video... ???

On this computer (MacBook Pro) it plays fine in Firefox, but in Chrome it shows a black box with a cut-off snippet of "YouTube" in the corner. It looks like the video player hasn't been scaled properly to the embed-region, so that the controls fall outside of the rendered region.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: AGA on Sat 13/08/2016 15:28:51
Can people please provide me with links to problem posts?
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Cassiebsg on Sat 13/08/2016 15:57:25
This is the only place I've notice this problem: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53210.msg636541131#msg636541131

And Snarky, if I go to youtube  and play a video they play fine too (there)... though to see yours I had to hit "quote" and then grab the link and copy/paste it to get to the page with the video.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Sat 13/08/2016 15:57:46
All the posts with videos

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50444.0

there is obviously a problem somewhere..
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Cassiebsg on Sat 13/08/2016 17:10:17
Yup, right, that one also shows black. :~(
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: AGA on Mon 15/08/2016 19:00:31
It seems embed only works for Flash videos (in pesky Chrome at least).  If you use the html tag, and include the full embed code given by YouTube (including the iframe code) it will work: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53210.msg636541131#msg636541131.  AnasAbdin's post will have to wait, it's broken for a whole other reason as well.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Mon 15/08/2016 21:22:30
Thanks for letting us know AGA

cheers
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: AGA on Tue 16/08/2016 18:50:44
I'm working on a more elegant solution for YouTube videos specifically.  I'll let you know once it's working.
Title: Re: Embedded Youtube Videos do not play full screen
Post by: Slasher on Sat 31/12/2016 18:38:14
I copied this here as seems best place..

Quote from: slasher on Wed 28/12/2016 19:58:23
Hi,

it appears that YouTube videos will not go Full screen...message when trying to..

Edit: using latest chrome browser.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Wed 12/04/2017 21:01:29
Question

why can I full screen a video on a game page (captain disaster) yet my embedded video in a post shows message that full screen is disabled.

my video

[embed=700,450]http://youtu.be/-WF9oiBpOkU[/embed]

try it

slasher
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Peder 🚀 on Wed 12/04/2017 21:08:36
slasher, probably because the forum embeds the video a different way to how the site does it. On AGS game pages, an <iframe> element is used, while in forum posts an <object> element is used.
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Wed 12/04/2017 21:47:17
Never used to be..

what would be the code i should use..

cheers

slasher
Title: Re: AGS Videos do not play
Post by: Slasher on Mon 17/04/2017 10:38:30
Using Embed does not seem to allow full screen on this website.. or any embedded videos...