Information on new [video] tag

[Centurions]

[video]https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/D8BAC1EE3F1167840919505260544_SW_WEBM_1421409179503c4439f2578.mp4?versionId=6Q_WghJVqmqzCISN3IJCpG3qi9K5EYMZ[/video]

Vine still not working for some reason?

Hmm, your Youtube is obviously okay but I can't get Vine to work either, over to Damocles (?).

 

[Damocles]

I'll check. Somebody probably let Bill near the computer again

 

[Damocles]

[video]https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/D8BAC1EE3F1167840919505260544_SW_WEBM_1421409179503c4439f2578.mp4?versionId=6Q_WghJVqmqzCISN3IJCpG3qi9K5EYMZ[/video]

Vine still not working for some reason?

The video tag works by pattern matching a certain URL then doing some stuff behind the scenes to post it. That link doesn't work because it is not a correctly formatted URL in our video player and the "try to play it anyway" bit was confused.

The full link is

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/D8BAC1EE3F1167840919505260544_SW_WEBM_1421409179503c4439f2578.mp4?versionId=6Q_WghJVqmqzCISN3IJCpG3qi9K5EYMZ

Now the video tag would not recognize that as a Vine video as we expect them to come in looking like this:

https://vine.co/v/RANDOMLETTERS

Then we take those random letters, which are the video identifier and are unique to each uploaded vid, and embed the Vine into the site.

Our failover will always try to use a relatively new technology called HTML5 video player to play the video instead. Whether this works often depends on the browser that people use so this is why it's our last resort. The HTML5 video player will only work with links that end with the extension .mp4 or .webm.

This video DOES end in that but unfortunately Vine but an identifier argument at the end of the link. This is what the versionID= means in the code above so we failed to recognise it. I'll put this on the list of things to fix as dropping the arguments when trying the last chance rendering of the video should be something that is in there.

If you search on Vine for the post, you can find it at this link:

https://vine.co/v/OD2HbOaYeVD

Which fits our video player fine and can be entered as is

[video]https://vine.co/v/OD2HbOaYeVD[/video]

This was a good post as it recognized a fault in our failover rendering system, and hopefully you can see sometimes why links don't appear. The software works on pattern matching to get the actual video as each site serves them differently, and your link didn't fall in to any of them so came back as unrenderable

 

[everythingchangesbutblue]

The vines have stopped working for me in the last 2 weeks. They played fine before. Im on firefox, i've done the about config true/false stuff but still no joy. Tumblrs not working either. Same in IE. Any ideas? like i said they we're fine 2 weeks ago both on and off of BM.

 

[markbmcfc]

The vines have stopped working for me in the last 2 weeks. They played fine before. Im on firefox, i've done the about config true/false stuff but still no joy. Tumblrs not working either. Same in IE. Any ideas? like i said they we're fine 2 weeks ago both on and off of BM.

Same for me and it's sadly driving me crazy. Also done the about:config tweak to no avail.

 

[Centurions]

The vines have stopped working for me in the last 2 weeks. They played fine before. Im on firefox, i've done the about config true/false stuff but still no joy. Tumblrs not working either. Same in IE. Any ideas? like i said they we're fine 2 weeks ago both on and off of BM.

Same for me and it's sadly driving me crazy. Also done the about:config tweak to no avail.

You two trying to play or post vimes? If posting, put one up so people can see what the issue is.

 

[everythingchangesbutblue]

The vines have stopped working for me in the last 2 weeks. They played fine before. Im on firefox, i've done the about config true/false stuff but still no joy. Tumblrs not working either. Same in IE. Any ideas? like i said they we're fine 2 weeks ago both on and off of BM.

Same for me and it's sadly driving me crazy. Also done the about:config tweak to no avail.

You two trying to play or post vimes? If posting, put one up so people can see what the issue is.

Trying just to play them in threads which i could do until 2 weeks ago..

 

[Centurions]

Same for me and it's sadly driving me crazy. Also done the about:config tweak to no avail.

You two trying to play or post vimes? If posting, put one up so people can see what the issue is.

Trying just to play them in threads which i could do until 2 weeks ago..

Hmm, I just tried Damocles post from page 2 in both Chrome and Firefox with no issues:

[video]https://vine.co/v/OdZ7D5bwxeu[/video]

What's this config true/false bit about?