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Sharing on facebook
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 13:58
I want to share video on facebook. The page has all needed meta tags, and the video appears on facebook correctly.
Our site were "whitelisted" on facebook, so now video could be played directly on facebook (on the wall).
Here is what happens:
1. Share page with video
2. The post appears on facebook wall with its thumb and play button on it (like any other movie from youtube for instance)
3. Click on the thumb
4. Kaltura player is loading (there is message for a moment "Player Loading...") and then player is loaded then first frame from the movie appears with two buttons Play and Share (as it is on our own site), BUT over the whole player there is semi-white mask, and player is "disabled". I cannot play the movie or interact with the player at all.
If I copy player's url which is in src attribute of embed tag on facebook page and open it on another tab in my browser, everything is fine, there is no such white mask.
What is the problem?
Sun, 08/08/2010 - 15:09
#2
Are you sure this causing that?
I've tried using my own kdp and setting allowScriptAccess="never".. all seem to be working fine:
<object id="kaltura_player" name="kaltura_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowNetworking="all" allowScriptAccess="never" height="333" width="400" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/media/" rel="media:video" resource="http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/cache_st/1281281097/wid/_224962/uiconf_id/1913582/entry_id/0_j16kbz4o" data="http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/cache_st/1281281097/wid/_224962/uiconf_id/1913582/entry_id/0_j16kbz4o">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="all" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<param name="flashVars" value="&" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/cache_st/1281281097/wid/_224962/uiconf_id/1913582/entry_id/0_j16kbz4o" />
</object>
Can you share a link or a full embed code?
-Zohar
Mon, 08/16/2010 - 13:13
#3
Maybe you are testing on different kaltura version. Mine is 1.5 (don't know about the player).
Also, facebook generates "embed" tag, don't know about "object" and is it possible to have different behavior just for that.
In the code that i have been posted, if I only change allowscriptaccess, it starts to work, so it must be that.
At the end, I gived up with kaltura's player, and just for facebook sharing I set up FlowPlayer. It works that way.
Thu, 02/10/2011 - 21:46
#4
Yep Ventzy is true, its happening the same with me as well, as I turn all allowscriptaccess = always it just start to work
Fri, 02/11/2011 - 00:14
#5
YES, I DID IT :) (Using CE 1.5)
Ventzi, It may be useless for you but for others to do it.
You would need to set externalInterfaceDisabled variable to true.
You can do that with uiVars in your UiConfig.
Just put the line below in your Uivars section of your UiConf
<var key="externalInterfaceDisabled" value="1" overrideFlashvar="true"/>
but if your are using any external javascript API then you wont be able to use it as a side effect for obvious reason.
If I get the tag from facebook and put it in another domain, the same think happens.
Here is the code:
And I found whats the problem - allowscriptaccess="never" - if that value is "always", the player behaves correctly.
Is there way kaltura player to work with allowscriptaccess="never"?