Fixed Problem With Facebook Video

[tafreehm]

Hello,
Ever since I upgraded to 1.1.3 facebook videos does not show up. Instead there is a white box.
There are no errors, I am not sure what exactly is causing the error.

This is what I have under "BB Code Media Site: Setting"

Match URL "facebook.com/*photo.php?v={$id:digits}"

Embed HTML:

<object width="500" height="300" data="http://www.facebook.com/v/{$id}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/{$id}" />
    <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
    <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
    <embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/{$id}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" width="500" height="300" />
</object>

In match url field I changed video.php to photo.php as facebook has changed its url structure for videos. It was working fine until I upgraded to 1.1.3

Please advice.

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Here is the fix

 

[Paul B]

Can you embed it here?

 

[tafreehm]

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[tafreehm]

can you see it ? I have posted it here...

 

[Paul B]

That doesn't appear to be a valid URL.

Firebug shows it as this: http://www.facebook.com/v/10152270185616808

Can you post the URL in code tags?

 

[tafreehm]

That doesn't appear to be a valid URL.

Firebug shows it as this: http://www.facebook.com/v/10152270185616808

xenforo does not take/accept updated facebook video url structure. I had to chang photo.php to video.php which does not support by fb anymore. However, Its acting same on my forum as well. Even though, my forum auto embeds the updated facebook' URL structure.

Why don't you try to post something and see if that works.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=156057317891198

 

[Paul B]

It could be a protected video.

 

[tafreehm]

It could be a protected video.

it is not... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152270185616808
plus, its not happening with one video nor one user. Its for all the videos, previously posted or subsequent one and all users.

 

[Paul B]

Then Facebook have changed something.

Perhaps they are now restricting embedding externally.

 

[tafreehm]

Then Facebook have changed something.

Perhaps they are now restricting embedding externally.

maybe...
I posted this long ago, and now it is not working.

 

[Paul B]

None of my own videos work and they are public.

 

[tafreehm]

None of my own videos work and they are public.

yeap, something from facebook then. For a moment I thought I found a bug in Xenforo.. but naahh that isn't easy.. :'(

 

[Sportsoutlaw]

One of my moderators was just asking me the same thing, trying to figure out why it isn't working.

 

[EQnoble]

new Embed HTML:

<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id={$id}" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I don't remember what the default Match URLs: was but I switched it to use regex and used this

#www\.facebook\.com\/photo.php\?v=(?P<id>[0-9]+)(\S)*#siu

 

[0xym0r0n]

I literally just tried to embed a video. I can link to it for anyone to see, but I can't embed it!
Tried doing a lot of things but I just get a blank video if i try to embed it.

 

[EQnoble]

Match URLs:

#www\.facebook\.com\/photo.php\?v=(?P<id>[0-9]+)(\S)*#siu

Embed HTML:

<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id={$id}" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Advanced options Tab--> Use 'Match URLs' as PCRE regular expressions: checked

 

[Kjartan Simonsen]

I can't even see the videos on Facebook.

I just get a black box no matter what browser i use. Maybe FB messed up ?

 

[0xym0r0n]

Yeah.... I tried your method and it isn't working for me

 

[Paul B]

You just need to switch to the iframe code which has already been posted above.

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id={$id}" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>

For Match URLs you can use this:

facebook.com/*video.php?v={$id:digits}
facebook.com/*photo.php?v={$id:digits}

 

[0xym0r0n]

Thanks brogan. I was trying to use EQnoble's code but it didn't work.
I see where I went wrong too!
When I tried to modify the match URLs I didn't know I had to use :digits and was just using $id