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garin_hess

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Posted - 06/16/2008 :  06:18:24  Show Profile  Visit garin_hess's Homepage  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Topic
In case this is helpful to anyone, I experimented today with embedding a YouTube video in a Unison course. Here are the steps to take to get it to work:

1. Add a "External SWF default" page type (this allows you to integrate an external Flash movie into the course...either one you've uploaded into the Media Manager or one that is 'somewhere out there' on the web)

2. Copy the "embed" code from YouTube associated with the movie (usually to the right of the video)

3. Copy everything inside the quotes of the 'src' attribute (in the example I used it is 'http://www.youtube.com/v/yOY2uAze4NA&hl=en')

4. In the form associated with your new page in Unison, go to the 'SWF' part of the form by clicking the heading 'Step 2: SWF'

5. Double-click directly on the text that says 'Click to the right to select a file' (this will let you fill in the form field manually rather than through the media manager)

6. Paste in the link to the YouTube video

7. Save and preview by clicking 'Preview the Whole Course' in the upper toolbar (the page-level preview doesn't appear to work with YouTube videos so you have to preview the whole course to see it work).
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ravisandhu

United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/21/2010 :  17:10:33  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
This is definitely not working for me... any ideas please?

I am previewing the whole course, and for this page (where I have tried to embed a YouTube video) nothing is appearing.

I hope you can help me.

Many thanks.

Ravi
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chris_marcum

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Posted - 01/27/2010 :  13:34:30  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
I had this same issue at first as well, but only because I was pasting the entire embed link into the content file field in Unison.

The only part of the embed link you need to paste into the Content File field in Unison is the part that is in quotes after the src= code.

So in the embed code, out of the section that looks like this: embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tk0URsiJxe0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"

You will only include this in the Content File field: http://www.youtube.com/v/tk0URsiJxe0&hl=en_US&fs=1&

This little section of the embed code is just slightly different from the video URL. But as long as you use just that little section of code, it should work.

The easiest way to pull this little part of the code out is to copy and paste the entire embed code into a text program like Microsoft Word, then copy and paste just the section of code in quotes after the embed src= part (do not copy the quotes).

Hope this helps!
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