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Asked by DaveB

Is it possible to either embed or play a youtube video in xibo? If so how can this be achieved in the simpliest format for a non tech minded person.

Currently using windows client 1.4.2 on Windows 7 desktop PC

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

Use the Embedded HTML media type.

In the HTML box, paste in the code from Youtube page (click Share - then Embed - then copy the embed code)

eg:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h257mofVvlY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Then adjust the embed code to make it play automatically (add &autoplay=1 to the URL section):
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h257mofVvlY?rel=0&autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

And that should work.

Alex

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DaveB (davebrewer5) said : 		#2

Thank You Alex, that was fantastic, works a treat :)

Just an additional query can this be tweeked to reduce buffering and also loop the video?

Once again many thanks

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

Nothing that can be done other than increasing your bandwidth. I'm not aware of a setting to make it loop. You could of course just allow the layout to expire so it loops that way.

Alex

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RLaurette (rlaurette) said : 		#4

If you can't find a URL switch for it, perhaps looping could be done using a youtube playlist.

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Herbert Voordes (hvoordes) said : 		#5

Little advice:
1. Download the youtube movie (mp4 format)
2. Convert it to wmv
3. Add it to your library as normal video and start using it.

Works for me ;-)

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