I am trying to embed a YouTube video in a course. It plays fine in preview mode, but when I publish the content, the YouTube video will not play. Has anyone tried to do this? Thoughts anyone?
Hi Leslie and Micheal-- while this worked like a charm for my computer, when I try to play the course on others computers, the video will not play. Is there a solution to this outside of changing 250+ flash player settings?
Hi Sue, there is a solution for this issue (which only happens when you try to play content LOCALLY on your hard drive or a shared drive): put the published content on a web server and provider your 250+ users with the content's URL. For example, this test file here is hosted on a webserver. You can run the videos (and other Storyline content) without having to jump through the FlashPlayer security hoops.
I appreciate your idea of embedding YouTube videos in the course. This makes the course more interactive. Thanks Michael and Leslie for your help. Can we use other flash videos sites as well?
sue czeropski said:
I am trying to embed a YouTube video in a course. It plays fine in preview mode, but when I publish the content, the YouTube video will not play. Has anyone tried to do this? Thoughts anyone?
Beth, in addition to YouTube, I have done tests with videos hosted at Vimeo, BrightCove and Kaltura; they all worked in Storyline. Of course, you can always host vids on your own server as well.
Sue: Michael is correct: Especially when it comes to video, the only way to know how your course is going to play is place it where you ultimately want it to play from. Many people spend countless hours about problems created by their own personal computer's settings. Like me, till I wised up.
Thanks for the help. Let me give it a try. Hope it will work.
Michael Hinze said:
Beth, in addition to YouTube, I have done tests with videos hosted at Vimeo, BrightCove and Kaltura; they all worked in Storyline. Of course, you can always host vids on your own server as well.
Is Michael's solution to host the videos yourself then as the content is only on YouTube and not on other sites mentioned. Therefore our only solution currently is to rip the videos from YouTube, and a) insert them as directly embedded content (Big file penalties) or b) as hosted files on our own servers...
Neither solution is ideal as the linked files should just work. We can only get them to work currently as WebObjects and as HTML5 files only.
I will try some more things and see what I can get to work.
Is Michael's solution to host the videos yourself then as the content is only on YouTube and not on other sites mentioned. Therefore our only solution currently is to rip the videos from YouTube, and a) insert them as directly embedded content (Big file penalties) or b) as hosted files on our own servers...
Neither solution is ideal as the linked files should just work. We can only get them to work currently as WebObjects and as HTML5 files only.
I will try some more things and see what I can get to work.
Joel, actually I had suggested to upload your published Storyline content to some server, then the video links will work. There is no need to rip YouTube videos and/or embed them.
Is Michael's solution to host the videos yourself then as the content is only on YouTube and not on other sites mentioned. Therefore our only solution currently is to rip the videos from YouTube, and a) insert them as directly embedded content (Big file penalties) or b) as hosted files on our own servers...
Neither solution is ideal as the linked files should just work. We can only get them to work currently as WebObjects and as HTML5 files only.
I will try some more things and see what I can get to work.
Joel, actually I had suggested to upload your published Storyline content to some server, then the video links will work. There is no need to rip YouTube videos and/or embed them.
Thanks Michael,
I'll try that now and see if it works for us. It does seem strange that it wont work with linked files via a connected browser even if the files are hosted on a local machine... If the machine was connected, I would expect the flash to be connected...
or maybe not with flash...!
, That would explain why the HTML5 is working at least.
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You probably need to add your output folder as a Trusted Location in the Flash Player's Settings.
Thank you Micheal--This worked like a charm!
Glad to hear you're good to go Sue and thanks for the assistance Michael! Hope both of you have a great day!
Hi Leslie and Micheal-- while this worked like a charm for my computer, when I try to play the course on others computers, the video will not play. Is there a solution to this outside of changing 250+ flash player settings?
Sue
Hi Sue, there is a solution for this issue (which only happens when you try to play content LOCALLY on your hard drive or a shared drive): put the published content on a web server and provider your 250+ users with the content's URL. For example, this test file here is hosted on a webserver. You can run the videos (and other Storyline content) without having to jump through the FlashPlayer security hoops.
Hi Sue,
I appreciate your idea of embedding YouTube videos in the course. This makes the course more interactive. Thanks Michael and Leslie for your help. Can we use other flash videos sites as well?
Beth, in addition to YouTube, I have done tests with videos hosted at Vimeo, BrightCove and Kaltura; they all worked in Storyline. Of course, you can always host vids on your own server as well.
Sue: Michael is correct: Especially when it comes to video, the only way to know how your course is going to play is place it where you ultimately want it to play from. Many people spend countless hours about problems created by their own personal computer's settings. Like me, till I wised up.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the help. Let me give it a try. Hope it will work.
Hi Sue! Hopefully Michael's solution helped you out again.
Hi Beth! Glad this thread is helping you out as well.
Thanks Michael and Daniel!
Hi everyone,
It really came out well, thanks to you all.
Thanks Beth for the update, and if you need anything else just let us know!
We are experiencing the same issue...
Is Michael's solution to host the videos yourself then as the content is only on YouTube and not on other sites mentioned. Therefore our only solution currently is to rip the videos from YouTube, and a) insert them as directly embedded content (Big file penalties) or b) as hosted files on our own servers...
Neither solution is ideal as the linked files should just work. We can only get them to work currently as WebObjects and as HTML5 files only.
I will try some more things and see what I can get to work.
Unfortunately this didn't work in our case... The Flash embedded in the flash output did not play at all.
Still looking for a solution.
Joel
Thanks Michael,
I'll try that now and see if it works for us. It does seem strange that it wont work with linked files via a connected browser even if the files are hosted on a local machine... If the machine was connected, I would expect the flash to be connected...
or maybe not with flash...!
, That would explain why the HTML5 is working at least.
Right... off to try now.
Joel
Sorted...
Yes, Hosting the files on a live server worked and the links were live too.
Great answer. Thanks
Joel
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