how to stream videos in external sharing? e.g onFB

how to stream videos in external sharing? e.g on facebook, twitter etc. Right now when user share video from my website they land back to my website. Is there a way they can watch videos on those platforms without coming to my website. I know  video embed work this way but like if you share  youtube video on FB or twitter they are played within those platforms. Same is the case with soundcloud audio.  One more thing how to increase the size of thumbnail for sharing?

a great idea for the new version of dolphin 7.1.5

because have can not know how many people saw our video,

with the current release, a person can take our video and have it can not know

There is a plugin in the market from Rayzz that adds more selections to the embed.  I think one can add more to the list; not sure how to do so

 i was not talking about embedding videos in my website :) I just googled it and found that we need to register flash player with facebook in open graph but i am using html5 player. so need to find out if html5 player can be embedded in facebook so user can directly play videos in facebook from my website :)

You have completely lost me.  When you stream content, any content, it comes from the server the content is sitting on.  So if the video is sitting on FaceSucks servers, then the FaceSucks servers handles the content streaming.  You don't actually embed content, you insert code that will pull the content from the server that holds the content and presents it.  if you actually embedded the content, the entire 1s and 0s that makes up the video would be added to the web page.  Embedding is actually a misnomer that has become common place.

Your question of how to stream video in external sharing is confusing.  The answer is you don't.  if the video is on FaceSucks, then FaceSucks does the streaming; their server has to handle the streaming.

Wait, maybe the light bulb just went on.  You want to add an embed code to FaceSucks so people can watch a video from YOUR site, streamed by your server, without having to visit your site.  Yes, that is easy.  If you go to the video view page, you will see the embed code to copy and paste on FaceSucks.  I have done this on my blog, I don't do FaceSucks, and it works just fine.  In fact, this is one of the services I tout; that one can join and pay a membership and upload their videos and we will stream them without adding a stupid advert all over then like Google does.  If you have already tried this with FaceSucks and it did not work, then the problem lies with FaceSucks, not Dolphin.

 What? Are you sure you know what you are talking about?

Usually you have a few different options for handling external embeds, like IFRAME, JS, SWF object. Another thing you might want to look into is OData for providing a better experience for embeds where supported. 

 This has been a loooooonnnnnngggggg talked about problem.

this is a extremely long post about the embed of our videos "outside" of Dolphin, and it still is..

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/VIDEOS-here-I-go-again-.htm

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Video-Embed--2013-05-23.htm

http://www.boonex.com/googlesearch/search?q=cant+embed+videos+outside&gse_filter=googlesearch

i think this might be the solution http://blog.kaltura.org/facebook-now-require-html5-and-fallback-in-open-graph . Plz correct me if i am wrong.

However, if FaceSucks does not allow certain things, it really is not a Dolphin problem, it is a FaceSucks problem.  For example, currently my members can not embed videos from certain sites; I think MSN videos is one of them.  Does the problem lie with MSN videos?  No, the problem lies with me.  I am the one that does not allow MSN videos embed code. 

Many sites have switched to iframes for embedding videos.  By default, iframes are rejected because of security concerns.  If I had went to VideoJug and said, change your embed code, they would have just laughed and ignored me.  If I wanted VideoJug on my site, then I would have to make changes.  Which I did.  I threw away the Dolphin YouTube iframe code since it was giving issues, and then coded in a new iframe embed code checker that basically just says, OK, I trust this site's iframe code for their videos, and only their video links.  Now my members can embed VideoJug.  I posted a tutorial on this.

Now, will FaceSucks do this, of course not; however, that is where the real problem lies.  Besides, everyone on the planet and their dog are suppose to be on FaceSucks and nowhere else.

HTML5 video is not a format, it is HTML markup and the browser then creates the player; the players are different depending on which browser you are using. 

• MP4 = MPEG 4 files with H264 video codec and AAC audio codec
• WebM = WebM files with VP8 video codec and Vorbis audio codec
• Ogg = Ogg files with Theora video codec and Vorbis audio codec

Everyone got excited at first with HTML5 video because everyone thought open standard.  Then of course the bickering and sell-outs started and that all went down the drain.

Now, I thought with the new release of Dolphin that videos are encoded with mp4; is this correct or am I wrong?  If I am wrong, what is the format of Dolphin video that is created by uploading a video and processing it?

If I "embed" a YouTube video on my site; the data, the actual file bits; bytes, are pulled off of Google's servers, not mine; because the files don't exist on mine.  They come from Google, through the internet pipes, to the user's web browser.  What the user gets from my site is a web page with the code that links to the Google file.

Yes, the MPAA and the RIAA have gone after websites for placing embeds and won but this is because the court system is stupid and knows nothing about IT.

 You can impose restrictions on IFRAMES <iframe sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms" src=""></iframe>.

What issues are you having using the default SWF object embed? Do you have crossdomain.xml configured?

If you all can figure this out, it would be another major milestone to me!!

Hope someone can get this done.

Are you using og:video tags? Look into Facebook's Open Graph, also get a free SSL cert from startcom so people using SSL/TLS can stream too.

 I've done that for a couple of sites.. made some post about it a while back.

here is this video ...if you just share it on facebook..user can directly play it within the facebook. try it. http://projects.kaltura.com/eitan/landing/lp.php?entryId=1_elwxyx1c

so i have to put these meta tags in the header.html ..

<head>

</head>

i need to replace all those link with my own links . but i can't figure out how it will work with my website. i know there are extra irrelevant meta tags..but these are the meta tags for a single video page  i think.

I hope you all figure this one out....

Currently, with the Video Zone Module, videos shared from my site to Facebook can be played on Facebook just fine. On Facebook, you click the video itself and it plays right there on the timeline/newsfeed....In addition, if people click on the video's link name, it brings them to my site where the video is embedded.

Unfortunately it is not the same with the standard Dolphin video modules :(

Although I understand the question and request, I actually like that it comes back to my site. That way if someone posts a video and shares on fb or somewhere else, because everyone who wants to view it is redirected back to my site, a person who is not a member will be  (hopefully) prompted into becoming a member.

@Underdog, just curious, is that module a Youtube embed only thing? Are you able to upload video files from your pc and then they will play on facebook when shared on facebook.

I ask, because it seems that youtube has become an industry standard for how to do videos online. And as such, just about everyone allows for youtube video embedding and playing. Thats just my thoughts and I can totally be wrong.

 Yes, Video Zone is basically a YouTube section within your site....It makes it easy for people to share/embed YouTubes and create playlists linked to their profile and other stuff like that......

But after the video is on your site (in the Video Zone section), then it can be shared to Facebook, both playing on Facebook and leading people back to your site. Unfortunately, it is not something that allows you to upload directly from your computer to the Video Zone section :(

but I think the point with that is you are still sharing a youtube video - not technically a video from your site. Which makes a big difference in relation to the current problem. Not being able to share videos that are uploaded to my site on facebook in which they will be played in facebook.

 Oh, I totally agree....

I guess, it's just that it actually looks like it is a video from our site and leads people back to our site.....But yes, it's just a YouTube video....

I wish I understood better how it does what it does when sharing, and that ALL videos on my site could be shared the very same way.

It's just my opinion, but seems better if it can both be played on Facebook and link back to my site....Seems perhaps sometimes just a thumbnail isn't always enough to get people away from Facebook? IDK

and thats what my earlier statement about youtube is about. Youtube has basically become a standard focal point for any form of video uploading on a mass viewing scale.

Basically, someone would have to develop s system that would make youtube obselete, and then everyone would start coding to allow embedded videos from that persons site on whatever is out there.

But also think of the bandwidth usage that you would need to be able to handle once you start allowing your videos to be played from somewhere outside of your site. Because the videos are on your server, you would have to eat the cost of the bandwidth from those viewing the video. If a video goes viral, it could wreak havoc if you dont have a server that can handle the multitude of requests at once, or is a little slow, or any number of issues that can come up.

And if you are on a shared hosting plan and a video goes viral - you can eat up all of your bandwidth in a matter of hours.

So - to sum it all up: You need a lot of money if you want to allow your videos to be played from other sites.

An innocent question. Any 1 know the path to html5 player in our website ? i need to put that in meta tag .  like it is mentioned here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18903547/how-to-share-a-video-from-my-website-on-facebook-like-youtube/18903890#18903890

 http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Images-that-pass-on-Facebook-share-arrgh.htm