embedding livestream

arkarian

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arkarian: 2010-07-08 04:47:39 am

2010-07-08 04:45:13 am

red chamber dream

to embed your own livestream, copy and paste the embed link (starts with "<object>"). then remove everything after the closing </object> tag and paste what's left into your post. might also want to change the width and height values to 400 and 320 respectively (this better fits the width of static posts and matches ustream's default size).

sample of what you want in your post (taken from lag's thread):

Code:

<object width="400" height="320" id="lsplayer" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=lagdotcom&amp;autoPlay=false"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed name="lsplayer" wmode="transparent" src="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=lagdotcom&amp;autoPlay=false" width="400" height="320" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

Thread title:

to embed your own [url=http://www.livestream.com/]livestream[/url], copy and paste the embed link (starts with "<ob[i][/i]ject>"). then remove everything after the closing <[i][/i]/object> tag and paste what's left into your post. might also want to change the width and height values to 400 and 320 respectively (this better fits the width of static posts and matches ustream's default size).

sample of what you want in your post (taken from [url=http://m2k2.taigaforum.com/post/lagdotcom_league_of_legends_and_audiosurf_livestream.html]lag's thread[/url]):

[code]<object width="400" height="320" id="lsplayer" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=lagdotcom&amp;autoPlay=false"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed name="lsplayer" wmode="transparent" src="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=lagdotcom&amp;autoPlay=false" width="400" height="320" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
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nate

2010-07-08 10:11:39 am

i don't get why we need to "support" different providers. why not just let people paste in the embed code like they can now? that's what everyone seems to want to do anyway.

KennyMan666

2010-07-08 11:37:44 am

Viking

Precursor

Oh you can just use the stream URL? lol, I got the embed url anyway.

nate

2010-07-08 11:55:30 am

^ point.

KennyMan666

2010-07-08 11:58:24 am

Viking

Precursor

Well, that's because nothing in the "using this board" thread states that you can just use the channel url. So I just thought "Alright, I want the stream to be embedded in the post! So obviously, I need to get the link that says "Embed" on it!"

nate

2010-07-08 12:00:01 pm

yeah, so it looks like everything is as it should be (cue monster ed).

arkarian

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arkarian: 2010-07-08 03:30:56 pm

2010-07-08 03:30:44 pm

red chamber dream

Quote from KennyMan666:

Well, that's because nothing in the "using this board" thread states that you can just use the channel url. So I just thought "Alright, I want the stream to be embedded in the post! So obviously, I need to get the link that says "Embed" on it!"

for some reason last night i thought i saw an alternate "embed link" like ustream has. so it would have made sense for us to support that too. however looking now i can't find anything like that so i must have been really tired or something.

what's worse is that it looks like ustream doesn't even have that anymore, so you have to use the <object> embed code. oh well.