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Can't play YouTube videos on main facebook page!
I've used a standard template for making youTube application that pulls 5 of my videos off of YouTube and populates the widget. It installs fine on Facebook. But when you click on one of the links it opens a new window for playing the video.
Why? Is there a way to have the videos play in the same window? Maybe using JW Player>?
We just want our pages as streamlined as possible.
Why? Is there a way to have the videos play in the same window? Maybe using JW Player>?
We just want our pages as streamlined as possible.
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Inappropriate?Hi Scott,
I don't know what JW player is, but Facebook has very restricted access to things you can do on the profile, and running the Javascript that we need to run to play YouTube videos inline is not permitted.
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Inappropriate?I've seen several examples of video playing on facebook walls. The slideshow widget which looks very much like a flash wrapper works fine on our page.
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The slideshow is a Flash application displaying images. The YouTube player uses Javascript to open a Flash player. I'm not saying it's 100% impossible for anyone to ever play a YouTube widget on the page, but it's not supported with the blidget. If you're using another widget, post a link to that widget, although then it will be up to the developer to make this work. -
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Pretty neat. You could purchase this, compile and host the SWF file, register it as a flash widget, and you'd be able to play a movie on your profile page.
