Tech Note: New-Style Video Embedding in LGF Pages

Now with IFRAMEs
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Both YouTube and Vimeo recently switched their video embedding code to a new style that allows videos to play on all kinds of devices, including mobile devices that don’t have Flash installed (like the iPhone).

Today I added the new IFRAME code to the types of video embedding code supported by LGF Pages; so you can now post any video from YouTube or Vimeo using their new code and it will work fine and be visible on everybody’s phone. At least that’s the theory.

If you’re not sure how to go about posting a video inside an LGF Page, here’s an LGF article explaining the process: Tech Note: LGF Pages Now Allows Video Embedding from Any Site.

Note: LGF Pages still doesn’t support video embedding via Javascript, and probably won’t, because I don’t like to use Javascript code from other sites if not absolutely necessary.

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1 wrenchwench  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:08:11pm

Tech thread!

Image: 2001859367033693065_rs.jpg

2 reine.de.tout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:09:59pm

re: #1 wrenchwench

Tech thread!

Image: 2001859367033693065_rs.jpg

I love the LOLcats. I giggle out loud at every single one. I set up a list at the site to save my "faves", and realized I was saving about every other one. pfft.

btw- I'm about to send you an e-mail, just FYI, might check in a minute or two.

3 prairiefire  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:10:01pm

Cool~~~Thanks, Charles!

4 sod  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:10:05pm

Without Flash? HTML5? What is it?

5 Fozzie Bear  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:10:46pm

Neat!

Charles, I think a good retirement plan for you might be to sell your site's design as a template for other blogs to use. You have slowly and steadily built yourself a very slick, functional, and intuitive set of tools for a blog.

Taken all together, it represents a huge investment of time and energy. Just a thought.

Kudos to you. Methodical, incremental tinkering seems to be your thing. It is no small thing.

6 Ojoe  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:15:19pm

OK if you are using an iPhone, here is a video of a guy pitching a phone pole, to test it out:

Youtube Video
7 A Man for all Seasons  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:28:06pm

I feel like an idiot...
I can't figure out how to create a page.. I've looked all over here but just can't find directions..
I think it's my destiny to run the sports pages here..But standing in the way is my stupidity..
Help?

8 Charles Johnson  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:30:26pm

re: #7 HoosierHoops

I feel like an idiot...
I can't figure out how to create a page.. I've looked all over here but just can't find directions..
I think it's my destiny to run the sports pages here..But standing in the way is my stupidity..
Help?

How to use the LGF Pages bookmarklet.

9 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:31:46pm

re: #7 HoosierHoops

I feel like an idiot...
I can't figure out how to create a page.. I've looked all over here but just can't find directions..
I think it's my destiny to run the sports pages here..But standing in the way is my stupidity..
Help?

If Charles' guide does not help, try this. Go up to the top. There is a bar that says LGF Pages. Click it.

Then look around on the right side of the screen. There will be a thing saying Create A Page. Click that.

Report back if this helps.

10 A Man for all Seasons  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:31:54pm

re: #8 Charles

How to use the LGF Pages bookmarklet.

Thank you Charles

12 Fozzie Bear  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:36:55pm

re: #11 Varek Raith

No animal has the right to be that cute. Not even a bear.

13 mikefromArlington  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:40:13pm

U rule.

14 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:47:49pm

Is there any support for time stamp bookmarks for youtube videos yet? They have a great feature that allows you to start a clip at 0:35 sec (for example) but I've never been able to get it to work on lgf.

15 Fozzie Bear  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:51:10pm

re: #14 Killgore Trout

Queuing up videos at a specific time index would be a nice feature.

16 Gus  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:54:29pm

Thanks Charles. Works like a charm now without having to remember to click "use old embed code" with Youtube videos.

17 A Man for all Seasons  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:57:32pm

I gotta tell you guys this..
I was walking my dog today..It was 70 degrees in Oklahoma today..An animal control officer pulled up and asked about a run away dog.. I said I didn't see any other dog..Then I whispered to Winston loud enough for the officer to hear..
Don't say anything Winston..That's the MAN!
I thought she would die laughing..
I love this town

18 prairiefire  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:58:11pm

Robert Palmer:

Youtube Video
19 Charles Johnson  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:04:37pm

re: #14 Killgore Trout

Is there any support for time stamp bookmarks for youtube videos yet? They have a great feature that allows you to start a clip at 0:35 sec (for example) but I've never been able to get it to work on lgf.

Actually, yes, it does work -- you add the 'start' parameter to the URL (in seconds) like this:

youtube.com/watch?v=24gtrW4_BAs&start=30

Example:

Youtube Video
20 avanti  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:05:25pm

BTW, I discovered intelligent life on a Hot Air thread on climate change. One brave poster is trying to swim against the tide and is getting piled on. He's trying to show how the right's anti-science stance is wrong headed and is hearing how all the intellectuals are lefties. When he pointed out that many conservatives don't pursue advanced science degrees and he felt that was a problem, he was told they had more productive things to do. Kinda sad.

21 Charles Johnson  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:06:15pm

re: #19 Charles

Oops, I'm wrong, it doesn't work! Hang on.

22 McSpiff  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:10:39pm

re: #21 Charles

Oops, I'm wrong, it doesn't work! Hang on.

Usual notation is something like #t=2m30s so...

Youtube Video

But unfortunately that doesn't work on LGF.

23 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:12:17pm

re: #21 Charles

Oops, I'm wrong, it doesn't work! Hang on.

Cool music though.

25 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:15:29pm

I'm testing out my new jumbo crab steamer. Even when I was at the store buying live crabs today I was thinking it wouldn't be big enough. Dungeness crabs are so freaking huge!. Luckily the steamer is big enough to accommodate 4 or maybe six nice big crab at a time.

26 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:17:39pm

re: #24 Gus 802

Republican Jack Kingston On Evolution: I'm Not From A Monkey! (VIDEO)

What always amazes me is that this dude has a college degree. That shouldn't be possible.

27 Lidane  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:21:06pm

Pass the brain bleach, please. The cab I was just in had Alex Jones blathering about Egypt. I had to listen to almost ten minutes of this nonsense.

Beyond all the usual New World Order/Globalist/OLIGARHY talk about how America is a horrible, brutal dictatorship and how the SOTU is a fraud perpetuated by both parties and an obvious push for more totalitarianism in the United States, Jones and his guest sat there wondering what it would take for Americans to rise up and take to the streets like the Egyptians have.

I need something to get my mind off all this fail. Music videos, LOLcats, gifs...it's all good.

28 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:24:49pm

re: #27 Lidane

Youtube Video
30 prairiefire  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:31:38pm

The Mudflats take on Sarah's WTF moment:[Link: www.themudflats.net...]

31 wrenchwench  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:43:24pm

I experienced a Page-posting oddity. The caption feature was working intermittently for me, and I discovered that the caption does not appear unless I edit it in some way before I finally load the picture. If I just add a space or take one out, the text in the caption box makes its way to the box above with the picture HTML. If I don't, it doesn't.

32 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:44:10pm

Al Jazeera reporting that about 6,000 inmates escaped a prison in Egypt when the guards left.

33 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:46:50pm

I had been noticing that the Egyptian protests have been largely anti-American and oddly very little anti-Israel sentiment. I found that strangely encouraging. Al Jazeera has a guy ranting about Israel now.

34 ryannon  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:48:23pm

True that: rant, rant, rant, rant, Israel, rant, rant, the U.S., rant, rant, rant

35 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:48:38pm

"Terrorist state of Israel. US terrorists and torturers." - Some "Human Rights" Activist
My support for the uprising continues to wane.

36 ryannon  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:50:21pm

re: #35 Killgore Trout

"Terrorist state of Israel. US terrorists and torturers." - Some "Human Rights" Activist
My support for the uprising continues to wane.

Good thinking.

And now we bring you the spokesman for all of America, Glenn Beck!

Hell, I'm retiring my support for the U.S.

37 Varek Raith  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:55:29pm

Shit, I'm not surprised if the Egyptian people aren't too fond of us.
We've only propped up the instrument of their oppression for the past 30 years.

38 brennant  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:57:17pm

re: #17 HoosierHoops

I gotta tell you guys this..
I was walking my dog today..It was 70 degrees in Oklahoma today..An animal control officer pulled up and asked about a run away dog.. I said I didn't see any other dog..Then I whispered to Winston loud enough for the officer to hear..
Don't say anything Winston..That's the MAN!
I thought she would die laughing..
I love this town

They have a tough job, glad you made her laugh!

39 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:58:07pm

re: #24 Gus 802

Republican Jack Kingston On Evolution: I'm Not From A Monkey! (VIDEO)

He's right, that guy's probably from some kind of mollusk

40 Varek Raith  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:58:52pm

re: #39 WindUpBird

He's right, that guy's probably from some kind of mollusk

Molluskist!

41 brennant  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 4:59:59pm

re: #39 WindUpBird

He's right, that guy's probably from some kind of mollusk

Why do hate Mollusks America?

42 Lidane  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:05:31pm

re: #37 Varek Raith

Shit, I'm not surprised if the Egyptian people aren't too fond of us.
We've only propped up the instrument of their oppression for the past 30 years.

Seriously. These are largely anti-Mubarak demonstrations, and he's seen as a dictator created and supported by the United States. Whether that's right or wrong, that's how it is. I think we'll find that a lot of these struggles driving the demonstrations are internal issues about Egypt itself, but emotions are running high and people will naturally say things against us.

The one comparison that keeps coming to mind when I look at all the news coming out of Egypt is the Second Mexican Revolution, back in 1910. Porfirio Diaz had ruled for 30+ years as an autocrat and people finally had enough of getting screwed over, so they took to the streets. Granted, the system they ended up with wasn't much better, but it was still an improvement over what they had before. I'd like to believe that the same is possible in Egypt now. It's probably far too optimistic, but that's how I'm seeing things.

43 engineer cat  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:06:34pm

re: #24 Gus 802

Republican Jack Kingston On Evolution: I'm Not From A Monkey! (VIDEO)

Breaking Evidence Found Suggesting Wingnuts Descended From Dust Breathed On By Supernatural Being

would account for some "irregularities" in neurological function

44 ryannon  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:08:10pm

re: #37 Varek Raith

Shit, I'm not surprised if the Egyptian people aren't too fond of us.
We've only propped up the instrument of their oppression for the past 30 years.

Given the circumstances, I think what I've seen on the street has been very good so far. I have faith in these people and I hope it will be borne out by future events.

45 ryannon  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:13:17pm

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

46 reine.de.tout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:15:30pm

re: #31 wrenchwench

I experienced a Page-posting oddity. The caption feature was working intermittently for me, and I discovered that the caption does not appear unless I edit it in some way before I finally load the picture. If I just add a space or take one out, the text in the caption box makes its way to the box above with the picture HTML. If I don't, it doesn't.

I've never been able to figure out how to work the caption thing. It never worked for me; either the caption would appear with no photo, OR the photo placement would be odd. I just don't use it.

47 jamesfirecat  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:16:31pm

Well I just managed to finish up the second Phoenix Wright game.

There are some things I liked some things I didn't, but I'm pretty darn sure that it was shorter than the first game, and I dislike how all the trials were squeezed into two days instead of drawn out a full three...

Either way I also just got back form the Mirrodin Besieged pre-release and after going a less than exciting 2-2 in my first sealed deck, I really kicked butt and went 4-0 in the second, not losing a single match (set of three games)!

48 wrenchwench  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:18:09pm

re: #47 jamesfirecat

Well I just managed to finish up the second Phoenix Wright game.

There are some things I liked some things I didn't, but I'm pretty darn sure that it was shorter than the first game, and I dislike how all the trials were squeezed into two days instead of drawn out a full three...

Either way I also just got back form the Mirrodin Besieged pre-release and after going a less than exciting 2-2 in my first sealed deck, I really kicked butt and went 4-0 in the second, not losing a single match (set of three games)!

That was either over my head or under my radar.

49 Gus  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:19:03pm

re: #43 engineer dog

Breaking Evidence Found Suggesting Wingnuts Descended From Dust Breathed On By Supernatural Being

would account for some "irregularities" in neurological function

You have to wonder about people that are so concerned about their biological descendants dating back millions of years. Whatever primate like creatures we have evolved from has no basis on our lives as modern day primates. They almost sound as if they think that evolution teaches them that their more recent descendants or distant relatives were "monkeys". And as is often the case they continually refuse to accept that humans are indeed animals.

50 bratwurst  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:19:15pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

That was either over my head or under my radar.

I was about to say the same! I could not have followed that post any less if it had been something along the lines of:

001101010101010101010111110001110101010110001100001001010101.

51 jamesfirecat  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:19:56pm

re: #50 bratwurst

I was about to say the same! I could not have followed that post any less if it had been something along the lines of:

00110101010101010101011111000111010101011000110000 1001010101.

Clearly I'm the only MtG (Magic the Gathering) player here...

52 Gus  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:23:54pm

We are all descendants of primordial goo!

I prefer to call it goop.

/

53 Lidane  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:24:33pm

re: #51 jamesfirecat

Clearly I'm the only MtG (Magic the Gathering) player here...

Don't worry. I understood you just fine. I just don't play MtG anymore. Hehe.

54 jamesfirecat  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:26:41pm

re: #53 Lidane

Don't worry. I understood you just fine. I just don't play MtG anymore. Hehe.

So anyway, how did you feel the second game Phoenix Wright measured up to the first?

I liked the Psyche Locks since they made the investigation positions seem more focused rather than just wandering around till the game told that you had done enough.

That said I wasn't such a big fan of the life/patience/concentration life bar thing, especially how it didn't refill during recesses in court the way that your ! symbols did if memory serve.... made things feel too much like a marathon slog through...

Your thoughts?

55 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:28:38pm

When I heard this track I felt like I knew it already but can't quite name it. Is it similar to another composition?

Youtube Video
56 reine.de.tout  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:29:24pm

re: #49 Gus 802

You have to wonder about people that are so concerned about their biological descendants dating back millions of years. Whatever primate like creatures we have evolved from has no basis on our lives as modern day primates. They almost sound as if they think that evolution teaches them that their more recent descendants or distant relatives were "monkeys". And as is often the case they continually refuse to accept that humans are indeed animals.

Ya know. . . I never had any clue that the idea that evolution is how we came to be was so controversial! Seriously - it's sensible and it make sense (the little that I know), and we (my family, the people I knew) just accepted it as accurate.

I'm just astonished to find the number of people there are who absolutely reject the theory of evolution. It's just astounding to me.

57 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:30:47pm

re: #24 Gus 802

Republican Jack Kingston On Evolution: I'm Not From A Monkey! (VIDEO)

Technically, he's right. We aren't monkeys, we are apes.

58 Lidane  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:30:48pm

Yeah, I didn't like the second game as much as the first. It's not my favorite, even though it did give me Franziska. Heh.

Get used to the Psyche-lock and the life bar thing, BTW. It's in the third game, too, but it's used there to much better effect. And the third game is a stronger one plot-wise than the second, I think.

59 wrenchwench  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:31:13pm

re: #21 Charles

Oops, I'm wrong, it doesn't work! Hang on.

Image: 3cea28df-d680-473b-bb6a-35bb538b812e.jpg

Later, lizards.

60 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:32:42pm

re: #56 reine.de.tout

DIE HERETIC!

61 jamesfirecat  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:33:48pm

re: #58 Lidane

Yeah, I didn't like the second game as much as the first. It's not my favorite, even though it did give me Franziska. Heh.

Get used to the Psyche-lock and the life bar thing, BTW. It's in the third game, too, but it's used there to much better effect. And the third game is a stronger one plot-wise than the second, I think.

What is different in the third game when it comes to the life bar?

And please tell me that the third game goes back to being three day trials with one recess (and thus two segments) per day, rather than two day trials with two recesses (and thus three segments)...

The one thing that I will say about the second game is that honestly I really liked "Shelly" does he show up in the third game?

62 Political Atheist  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:34:17pm

I know we have some Satriani fans around here.
This is a really good article about him, just published.

It finishes with this link..

Youtube Video
63 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:36:02pm

re: #25 Killgore Trout

What time is dinner?
Nom nom nom!

64 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:36:21pm

Happy to hear we lizards have a new embed gadget sorry to hear that Egypt is still going crazy.

65 Gus  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:41:38pm

re: #57 prononymous

Technically, he's right. We aren't monkeys, we are apes.

Technically he's probably confused and is mixing monkeys with chimps, orangutans, apes, gorillas, etc. When people like this say "monkeys" they include a mixed up version of primates. Their point being that we popped out of thin air as 6 foot tall humans with blue eyes, curly blond hair and nicely arched eyebrows with dinosaurs as companions.

//

66 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:43:42pm

re: #65 Gus 802

Yes, he probably has many confusions. ;)

67 Lidane  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:53:12pm

re: #61 jamesfirecat

Shelly doesn't show up, no. I've heard rumors of him being in one of the next Miles Edgeworth games, but I don't know that for sure.

It's been a while since I've played any of the Ace Attorney games, so I don't remember the trial lengths in the third game. I think that the max is three days, IIRC. I just thought the Psyche-lock mechanic was stronger in the third game because the overall story is stronger. You handle two of Mia's cases -- her very first one, and the one where she defends Phoenix, and the rest of the storyline has to do with her as well, though you don't really realize how until the end.

Oh, I almost forgot-- the later games, like Apollo Justice, introduce a jury system, because Japan itself reintroduced juries to their court system at the time of the games being developed.

68 Gus  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 5:53:47pm

Another from a not so distant era passes away.

David Frye, Perfectly Clear Nixon Parodist, Dies at 77

David Frye, whose wicked send-ups of political figures like Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey and, above all, Richard M. Nixon, made him one of the most popular comedians in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, died on Monday in Las Vegas, where he lived. He was 77...

Image: FRYE-obit-popup.jpg

69 What, me worry?  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 6:25:42pm

re: #30 prairiefire

The Mudflats take on Sarah's WTF moment:[Link: www.themudflats.net...]

I haven't read her in so long! Bookmarking.

Love your new avatar, btw :)

70 prairiefire  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 6:26:58pm

re: #69 marjoriemoon

I haven't read her in so long! Bookmarking.

Love your new avatar, btw :)

Thanks, I like yours, too. So, the buxom woman will marry the blue robot if they can have a Jewish wedding, or the robot wants a Jewish wedding? : )

71 What, me worry?  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 6:29:10pm

re: #70 prairiefire

Thanks, I like yours, too. So, the buxom woman will marry the blue robot if they can have a Jewish wedding, or the robot wants a Jewish wedding? : )

lol She's speaking. I guess I should find out her name eh?

That movie is one huge piece of misogyny, but I still love it. That scene comes after they've had sex.

72 Decider  Sat, Jan 29, 2011 6:35:13pm

I love LGF. This makes it even better.


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