Stream video content from another website

[Iniquityclothing]

Hi there i was wondering is it is possible to stream a video clip from an outside source on my osC main page, so for example if there was a music video on a bands official website is it possible to copy the url and have osC load it when my page opens??

I supose its a little like embeding a .SWF but as opposed to inserting an "Actual" movie i simply embed an address for osC to load.

 

Thanks

[Iniquityclothing]

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[essami]

If you first upload the video to youtube they will provide a code for you that allows you to embed it to your site. Then you can insert that code in your shop.

 

sami

[starcad]

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What I did is upload a video to Google Videos and then copied the code to my product discription page. Works like a charm. You can see this in action Here.

[Iniquityclothing]

Thanks folks thats great, can that html be placed in index.php were the inital welcome note lives?

[ComicWisdom]

Getting into the discussion. I'm working on a site for movie rentals, can this be done with trailers from various sites?

[Collegehoodies]

I am also desperate to add video to my site, hopefully on the main page basically where the header banner is right now, and I cant for the life of me even get the banner to be removed. I tried turning it off (making it a red instead of green button) and making the new banner be the video link, but its sure not working. ANY HELP totally appreciated. email [email protected] or PM me. THANKS

[Iniquityclothing]

the problem is occuring because, i assume, that we are calling the page asa opposed to the file! So for example Youtube if you maximise a video and simply copy the code to the relevant <embed> location it WILL NOT work, you need to call the file itself. Dont know how to do this maybe right click over the file and "properties>address (url)" this may work if the file is MPG or AVI??

[starcad]

I am also desperate to add video to my site, hopefully on the main page basically where the header banner is right now, and I cant for the life of me even get the banner to be removed. I tried turning it off (making it a red instead of green button) and making the new banner be the video link, but its sure not working. ANY HELP totally appreciated. email [email protected] or PM me. THANKS

 

 

 

OK, you guys here is what I did. May be the code will help more than how I did it but let me explain it a little more before posting the code.

 

I uploaded my vid to google as I didn't want to keep it locally on my server as it is quite a large file. This may take a day or so as it has to be aproved by google. Once the vid id in the que then it is just a simple matter of going to the file upload section, clicking on the uploaded video you want to watch and then on the right side there is a link asking if you want to Email - Blog - Post on MySpace. Click on that. It will open several options underneight. One it to Embed code. Click on that. This will provide you with the code in a small box below and allow you to copy and then paste that code into your product box when your adding a new product or editing a product.

 

I pasted mine into a table as I use a template to help keep all my products looking the same. Save it and test it on your page. Here is the code I used from google as it encludes the embed statement it may help.

 

 

 

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?d...24536&hl=en"> </embed>

 

 

 

Hope this will help you guys alittle more and if you get something better please IM me or email me and let me know.

 

Guy

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[MarthaD]

Has anyone thought to use the "product homepage" feature to create a link to the video clips stored elsewhere?

 

Or maybe search the contributions for a really goopd one that adds clips to the product descriptions???

 

Yeah... me either....

[Iniquityclothing]

If any 1 finds anything please let us no??

[danielcompton]

I had the same problem. Youtube Embed code for products did not work.

 

I just see this page and the info on pasting the google video. thanks, I copied the Google code to my page and it worked.

 

SO.... I thought I will change the video bit in that code to the youtube video I wanted it and works. At last!

 

So this is what I done

 

Copy this Google Code into your product

 

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?d...24536&hl=en"> </embed>

 

take your YOUTUBE CODE (example below)

 

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="

name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="

" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

 

 

take out the link info ONLY

 

 

then use this code and replace it in the google video code we know already works, so it looks like this

 

 

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="

&hl=en"> </embed>

 

then pate the above code into your product info (in html mode)

 

Thats what I done and works perfect. I know nothing about coding, just a 2 second thing I worked out and works for me

[Guest]

Thanks folks thats great, can that html be placed in index.php were the inital welcome note lives?

[Guest]

I've been able to embed youtube videos perfectly, however;

 

My site is secure (https), so when I embed a youtube video, the visitor gets a message saying that there are nonsecured items about to you, and they are asked if they wish to display the nonsecured items.

 

Anyone know a way around this....aside from the user having to use firefox or disable security in IE?