Embedding videos within forums

**yv3013** · Sat 17 Jan '15, 4:58pm

I'm having video issues also, I found it interesting about the SSL you mention, whilst I can embed and play video's, they show a blank screen where they should show a picture of the video.

So I think both our problems are related to SSL.
How do I get rid of SSL? my current host or the original host?

**Vintum** · Sat 17 Jan '15, 6:51pm

I turned off my SSL by changing https to http in the settings menu.

I've found something that I think may possibly be causing an issue with the embedding. Looking at the page source, the html code I pasted into the forum is being broken up. As seen in this image: http://i.imgur.com/bR8rRdH.jpg

Any idea on how to prevent this from happening? This is the only thing I can think of to be possibly causing the issue. The same code works flawlessly every where else I try it at.

**Vintum** · Mon 19 Jan '15, 11:58am

I was able to confirm that this appears to be the cause of the issue for me. If I try to use the broken up code from the page source, the embed will not work. But it works just fine again when I delete the spaces.

Any way to prevent those spaces from appearing?

**Wayne Luke** · Mon 19 Jan '15, 12:33pm

How are you trying to embed this code? What is the URL that you're trying to embed?

**Vintum** · Mon 19 Jan '15, 12:50pm

Originally posted by Wayne Luke

How are you trying to embed this code? What is the URL that you're trying to embed?

I'm just pasting the embed code as it appears when given to me. It's an embed code from google's picasa. It's rather long, and it only does it to this code and not other embed codes.

Code:

<embed style="width: 600px; height: 400px;" flashvars="fmt_list=22%2F1280x720%2F9%2F0%2F115%2C18%2F640x36  0%2F9%2F0%2F115&amp;fmt_stream_map=22%7Chttps%3A%2F%2Fredirector.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Frequiressl%3Dyes%26shardbypass%3Dyes%26cmbypass%3Dyes%26id%3D878620f8c8d9b868%26itag%3D22%26source%3Dpicasa%26cmo%3Dsecure_transport%3Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1424118731%26sparams%3Drequiressl%252Cshardbypass%252Ccmbypass%252Cid%252Citag%252Csource%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3DDD05F166309CDD4EBA8961B575BEF9A0C8CA9C82.72AA1374DD774E1968703F67BE033AC0DAE56C1A%26key%3Dlh1%2C18%7Chttps%3A%2F%2Fredirector.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Frequiressl%3Dyes%26shardbypass%3Dyes%26cmbypass%3Dyes%26id%3D878620f8c8d9b868%26itag%3D18%26source%3Dpicasa%26cmo%3Dsecure_transport%3Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1424118731%26sparams%3Drequiressl%252Cshardbypass%252Ccmbypass%252Cid%252Citag%252Csource%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D7E1767DBFB7F6E29292C4436267CE021A92E955F.D316EA85A56A87915815D910A950D5E0B93998AF%26key%3Dlh1&amp;video_id=picasacid&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=picasaweb&amp;playerapiid=uniquePlayerI  d&amp;t=1&amp;auth_timeout=86400000000" wmode="opaque" scale="noScale" bgcolor="#fff" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="//www.youtube.com/get_player?enablejsapi=1" height="400" width="600">

It works fine everywhere, except in vbulletin posts where it is being broken up. This is how it looks in a thread's source page: http://i.imgur.com/bR8rRdH.jpg

**Wayne Luke** · Mon 19 Jan '15, 1:25pm

That is a very messy URL. You'll need to increase the word wrap on your forum so that it is longer than the URL.

Settings -> Options -> Thread Display Options (showthread) -> Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text

**Vintum** · Mon 19 Jan '15, 1:34pm

Excellent, thank you. That's what was causing it.

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