More and more people use Facebook to upload their videos.
This article shows how to embed any Facebook video: http://www.labnol.org/internet/embed-facebook-videos-in-web-pages/9715/

It appears this is very similar to the Youtube and Vimeo embed format and could be done easily?

I'm trying to figure out if there is an "autoplay" option.

cheers

UWE

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jec006’s picture

Hey,

I added a Facebook provider as a submodule (called video_embed_facebook). I also used it as an opportunity to both provide an example module that adds a handler and also to write a blog post walking through that. As soon as the blog post is published I'll link it here.

Hope that works for you, let me know if you have any issues - I didn't test it extensively.

jec006’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed
mototribe’s picture

wow, that was quick, thank you!
I could embed a Facebook video and it played fine. I'm still trying to figure out if an autoplay is possible.
It doesn't seem to retrieve the thumbnail correct. I just got a thumbnail with a blue "?" in it.
This link describes how to retrieve the thumbnail: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7000856/how-to-get-facebook-video-thu...

Is this beta version "save" to use in production? I couldn't tell how much it differs from the production version. It had a note about thumbnail support missing but they do seem to work for youtube?

thanks again for the quick implementation, this is absolutely fantastic!!!

UWE

jec006’s picture

I couldn't figure out the autoplay either, I can spend more time looking at it.

That stack overflow post is exactly how I'm (trying) to do the thumbnail stuff. For whatever reason, it seems to be a permissions issue, some videos (even though they have thumbnails) show that not found image. I'll try to read more documentation on what the options for making this work are - the definite way to make it work is implementing OAUTH and then granting access to the application from facebook ... but that seems a bit overkill for this purpose. Hopefully there is an easier / better way to get the thumbnail that doesn't have these issues.

I think dev should be safe to use on prod, I don't have any open bugs right now, there are some feature requests still open (which you know) and I would like to get to those, I'll roll a beta5 soon - I just want to make sure that nothing new got broken first

jec006’s picture

Here's a link to the blog post i was referring to
http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/creating-handlers-video-embed-field

mototribe’s picture

pretty cool, thanks. Now I should be able to do it myself ;-)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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fixed typo