including youtube

[Danoo]

Hi all again
Since Concerto is completely web-based, wouldn't it be an easy thing
to do to introduce youtube videos (or any other flash stuff) as
possible content to be added to a stream instead of a picture...
Is there anybody out there that figured out a way already to acomplish
this?
Regards Daniel

[Brian Michalski]

Hi Daniel,

Using other web content is definitely possible, the only trick is making sure the client computers have the appropriate plugins to display them.  If you're using our player images on your computer, you won't find flash player installed (you'll have to add that).

To add some HTML content into the system (like an embed tag with a flash player), I would follow do the following:

1. Upload a new piece of ticket text for use as a placeholder.  Ideally, you'll want to set the duration (in seconds) to be the length of the video... maybe add a few seconds for flash player to load.  Select the desired feed as well.

2. Login to the database (I like a program like phpMyAdmin) and head to the content table.  Look for the ticket text entry you just added, it's probably near the end.  Edit that row.

3. Change the following fields:

 -- content: Put the HTML in here

 -- mime_type: Set this to text/html

 -- type_id: Set this to 3, or whatever number corresponds to the Graphics type in your Type table.

4. Save the changes to that row, you should be all set.

If the duration you set during step 1 isn't long enough, you'll want to change that on the feed_content table keeping in mind the the numbers you see there are millisecond values.

Thanks,

~Brian M

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[Andrew G]

Hello All,

I am also trying to embed a youtube video in the graphics field.
I have added the embed code to the content field in the database and
adjusted the duration time to fit the length of the video. The video
shows up in the graphics field and plays, but as soon as the video is
displayed all other content fields pause. Immediately after the video
stops, the screen goes offline. I must manually refresh the browser
after each time the video plays. I'm assuming there's something going
on with the Javascript. I have the newest version of Flash player and
this problem happens in both Firefox and IE. Can someone please help
me get this working? Thanks!

Regards,
Andrew

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