Embed a Google-Docs-Video onto a page

[alex alexiev]

Dear list, Ali and Vic:

Apologies, for posting it here, mainly because I do NOT know how to post a bug report to Google.

Background:

It is fairly easy to embed a YouTube video onto a page:
http://home.commerce.gov/
When one knows of the video ID:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QSX_DUe2-3E?rel=0

I tried to to do something similar with a Google-Docs-Video a few minutes ago.

I wish there was 'one' method to display both videos (G-Docs or YouTube).

 

First, we created the captioned-video (works, captioned words starts at 6/7th second):

https://docs.google.com/a/noaa.gov/leaf?id=0B0ykdkyqboFsOGE5ZTZjYTYtMGI1NS00ZmI2LThhNDYtYzg5ZGQ3Yjc0ODM4&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

 

But unfortunately, the embeded-video code shown to us in the Google-Enterprise web-portal, does NOT display the captioned text (I hit the CC-logo---it keeps spinning):

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/videos/gd.html

I use the following text from the right-hand-pane of the Google-Docs-Video page:

<p>
<object width='640' height='385'><param name='movie' value='https://video.google.com/get_player?docid=0B0ykdkyqboFsOGE5ZTZjYTYtMGI1NS00ZmI2LThhNDYtYzg5ZGQ3Yjc0ODM4&ps=docs&partnerid=30'></param><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'></param><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'></param><embed src='https://video.google.com/get_player?docid=0B0ykdkyqboFsOGE5ZTZjYTYtMGI1NS00ZmI2LThhNDYtYzg5ZGQ3Yjc0ODM4&ps=docs&partnerid=30' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' width='640' height='385'></embed></object>
</p>

---Any inputs are appreciated.

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[Ali Afshar]

Hi Alex,

No problem posting here, though it might not help you much!

I just tried both links and the embedded video shows the captions as
with the non-embedded. The cc button causes the spinner to spin until
the first caption is reached.

Anyone else reproduce this issue?

Regards

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Ali Afshar | www.googplus.org/ali | Google Developer Relations

[alex alexiev]

Hi Ali,

Wow, it is working now!

Thank you for looking it over.

That leads me to believe that there may have been some sort of long Q for the internal Google Process so that the CC can display properly.

Note: I now find another issue/bug.

If I am logged in with ONE google-account that is the original google-account that created the video, and even though I state that the video is to be shared with public (completely open to viewing), the video does NOT play, if I log in with ANOTHER Google-account: it reports an error occurred. 

It is as if the google-doc-video page, examines one's authentication token, before it displays the page (or at least that is what I think is happening).  There should be an exception in your code to allow viewing of the public G-Doc-Video. Should be an easy fix.