Inseting Media Files 2 (5 Viewers)

[Frroyt]

I'm having trouble inserting a streaming video into one of my posts. Tumblr is on the list, but I can't embed the video on the page.

 

[fleet]

I notified the gurus on Discord.

 

[SyntaxTerror]

Apparently, the 'media button in the editor tool bar', doesn't work for MOV files (I didn't find other formats on Tumblr).

The video ID seems to be preceding the .mov of the URL, but it doesn't seem to work using the BBcode :
https://64.media.tumblr.com/b509ba759e7225def708cae25d240634/d48fb0541bd82917-19/s720/24165451d2980ac85d918bf5bd019a8ce7a666e6.mov → [MEDIA=tumblr]24165451d2980ac85d918bf5bd019a8ce7a666e6[/MEDIA] gives :



It doesn't seem to work for posts either :
https://www.tumblr.com/actuallysara/827853959841660928/its-not-looking-good-for-mr-sheeran?source=share → [MEDIA=tumblr]827853959841660928[/MEDIA]

 

[Samoth]

I'll reach out to Wreck as well to get his thoughts, but I suspect from the failure to embed that this might well just be an issue with Xenforo. Maybe they only have it set up to host certain kinds of embeds from Tumblr, and this is looking to embed stuff outside that, so to speak.

Worst case, is it possible to find another site to upload the content to and link to it from there as some sort of workaround? I realize you likely don't want to do that, but figured I'd throw it out there as a last resort. (In theory if you did this you'd probably want to also link back to the actual tumblr page via a regular url embed to supply a proper source, too.)

 

[Frroyt]

I'll reach out to Wreck as well to get his thoughts, but I suspect from the failure to embed that this might well just be an issue with Xenforo. Maybe they only have it set up to host certain kinds of embeds from Tumblr, and this is looking to embed stuff outside that, so to speak.

Worst case, is it possible to find another site to upload the content to and link to it from there as some sort of workaround? I realize you likely don't want to do that, but figured I'd throw it out there as a last resort. (In theory if you did this you'd probably want to also link back to the actual tumblr page via a regular url embed to supply a proper source, too.)

I have no interest in Tumblr, per se. I just want to embed trailers, and I have to choose one from your list. I wouldn't actually have a problem, if I could choose any file sharing host I want. At the moment, I am favoring Anondrop.net, because they let you choose your own thumbnail.

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anondrop.net

I got both the trailer and the thumbnail from Home | The Battle For Earth.

However, Anondrop is not on your list of acceptable hosts. As for a work around, I've been been giving people links to the trailers using thumbnails, which I make myself by adding a play button to a vidcap. Or, I tell people to click on the thumbnail.



There are a couple of ways we can do this. You can add Anondrop.net, or possibly Qu.ax to your list of acceptable hosts. Or, I can continue linking people to the videos with thumbnails. In the latter case, you guys would make it easier for me, if you were the ones to put the clickable thumbnails on the page. In other words: 1) I upload the video onto a file sharing host, 2) I give you the URL to the video, 3) I give you an image for the thumbnail, 4) You guys add the clickable thumbnail with a play button onto the page, 5) when people click on the thumbnail, they are taken directly to the video URL.

 

[Samoth]

There are a couple of ways we can do this. You can add Anondrop.net, or possibly Qu.ax to your list of acceptable hosts.

I do have the ability to add a BB Code Media Site, from my digging around in the console. I knew I remembered seeing that awhile back.

I've attempted to add a custom one for AnonDrop, but to be fully honest I have zero clue how HTML stuff works so I've basically cobbled this together from one of the other ones. If something explodes, let me know.