Adventures Embed
Aug. 14th, 2015 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotI discovered by blocking Shockwave Flash — which I highly recommend you also block* — that, when I embedded videos using the LiveJournal video template, the video playback employed Shockwave Flash (it wasn't part of the visible code, so I didn't know). If you've got an old CPU, this may have caused your computer to labor. In any event, blocking is easy (see footnote). So is unblocking: all you have to do is click on the red icon the blocker provides, and the video that's blocked comes into view. But from now on, I'll use something other than the lj template when I can. [UPDATE: And the unblocker has now long since stopped working.]
This is the lj template, which works for YouTube but I'm not sure about anything else:
<lj-template name="video">URL</lj-template>
For example, here's DJ Leandro's "Montagem das Antigas, Volt Mix":
<lj-template name="video">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj7T71vH-mo</lj-template>
[Error: unknown template video]
Note that, when using the lj template, if the url begins with "https://" as YouTube's do, you have to get rid of the "s" for the embed to work. [Also note, many years later, that it doesn't work anymore.] But I'm recommending you not use the template, given the Shockwave Flash. And when you're not using the lj template, you don't have to eliminate the s. And if you still like the lj template's ratio, I've worked out that it's approximately 428 width, 335 height. So you can just take a video site's embed code and insert those numbers. Here they are with the YouTube code (DJ Battery Brain's "808 Volt"):
<iframe width="428" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Al_J8GnWqM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
[EDIT: Actually, that code is obsolete, so this is what I'm using now:
<iframe width="428" height="335" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Al_J8GnWqM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
END EDIT]
For a reason I don't know, the embed codes provided by some sites other than YouTube don't work on lj. But fortunately embed codes from the old days do. So, for those interested, here they are [EDIT: But don't expect them to work anymore]:
Dailymotion's old code, which uses Shockwave Flash (Wonder Girls "I Feel You" live):
<object width="428" height="345"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/x307wr3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x307wr3" width="428" height="345" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
I got x307wr3 from the URL:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x307wr3_wonder-girls-i-feel-you-live-832015_music
[EDIT: And now, if you're reading this on lj, what you're getting isn't likely to be working, and if you're reading this on Dreamwidth, what you're getting is (1) YouTube again, of (2) the wrong video, which likely will change from day-to-day. And as I write this (3/8/22) many of the old videos on my Dreamwidth, prior to when I did the import in 2017, are the wrong video. The Dreamwidth algorithm is haywire. I'm going through the old posts on the Dreamwidth, one by one, trying to replace wrong videos with the correct ones, and hoping the correct ones then stay correct, crossing my fingers. But I'm not revising this post below this point, not even the EDITS.]
So, you can use that as a model and plug in the appropriate video. But since it too uses the slow-loading, high bandwidth Shockwave Flash, you might want to use a newer Dailymotion code instead (though for all I know it also uses Shockwave Flash [EDIT: indeed, it does]). This is the one for Wonder Girls' live "Rewind" (x307uyf):
<iframe frameborder="0" width="428" height="345" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x307uyf" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Here's a Youku code for Fat Cat's "My Love Bad Boy":
<embed src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMzA5NTc3NTU2/v.swf" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" width="428" height="345" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
It uses Shockwave Flash too, though. I couldn't find a Youku coded that worked on lj but that didn't use Shockwave Flash.
And here we are on Toudu, again needing Shockwave Flash (track is T-ara's "T-aratic Magic Music"), and I guess the ratio takes care of itself:
<embed src="http://www.tudou.com/v/VymxI5qT1j8/&resourceId=0_04_05_99/v.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
Speaking of Wonder Girls, they've pulled off a conceptual coup of sorts** by coming back as a four-piece band — playing instruments as they perform, all songs with co-writing credits from one or another of the performers. What's amusing/intriguing about the concept is, as I said to Mat, they're using it on styles of music that were originally created by and for preprogrammed beats and studio synths: the basic Hi-NRG, freestyle, Italodisco, synthpop panoply that was my favorite music of the '80s. And as Mat points out, the word "freestyle" is now, finally, appearing in actual promo copy. ("I Feel You is Park Jin Young's creation. It is inspired by the freestyle music that came out of the Latin American community in New York in the '80s, featuring synth instruments and a syncopated base rhythm.") And David clues me in to the fact that fans are noticing too.
"I Feel You" rides a freestyle riff without going full-steam into the dolorous vocals and delirious beats that NY freestyle found its way to, nor into the wild passion of Miami. It's more on the frothy early '80s Madonna cusp. As I've been saying relentlessly, South Korea has been pulling this aspect or that from freestyle for years, using them all over, though never combining all the parts at once. Nor should it, necessarily. There's plenty else to combine with.
While the Wonder Girls album, Reboot, doesn't have any truly dominant, enthralling melody, the sound is warm and pretty, and gentle for all its energy.
<iframe width="428" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_KMyql7K98o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
In further admin news, I've killed the k-pop tag, because about half my posts since 2011 took the tag, which was therefore overwhelming and subduing all other names on my tag display to the right. After I killed the tag, I realized that what I should have done was simply change the tag to go year by year (e.g., "k-pop 2012"), so you could follow the story. Oh well. I've kept tags on my first two K-pop posts ever, where anhh, Sabina, Mat, and Tari jumped into the comments to school me in the music. I still return to those lessons. Meanwhile, if you click "t-ara" and "snsd" and "no tiers for the creatures of the night" you get a lot of the tale.
*Shockwave Flash is used on a lot of videos and ads; it eats up time loading and monopolizes your CPU if the CPU is old, or even not so old. Causes my girlfriend's computer to limp and to freeze. Also, apparently, there are security vulnerabilities on non-updated versions of Shockwave Flash. I'm linking Vox's article on where to get the Flashcontrol app (article contains links for various browsers). It's easy to implement, and if there's something you want to see that Flashcontrol disables, you can view it simply by clicking on the red Flashcontrol icon. I do wonder what blocking Shockwave Flash does to the LiveJournal and NY Times and Sports Illustrated etc. business models, given that so many of their ads use Shockwave Flash. But look, it's not our fault their advertisers' software causes problems.
**that I hope doesn't eventually turn into a cul-de-sac.
This is the lj template, which works for YouTube but I'm not sure about anything else:
<lj-template name="video">URL</lj-template>
For example, here's DJ Leandro's "Montagem das Antigas, Volt Mix":
<lj-template name="video">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj7T71vH-mo</lj-template>
[Error: unknown template video]
Note that, when using the lj template, if the url begins with "https://" as YouTube's do, you have to get rid of the "s" for the embed to work. [Also note, many years later, that it doesn't work anymore.] But I'm recommending you not use the template, given the Shockwave Flash. And when you're not using the lj template, you don't have to eliminate the s. And if you still like the lj template's ratio, I've worked out that it's approximately 428 width, 335 height. So you can just take a video site's embed code and insert those numbers. Here they are with the YouTube code (DJ Battery Brain's "808 Volt"):
<iframe width="428" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Al_J8GnWqM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
[EDIT: Actually, that code is obsolete, so this is what I'm using now:
<iframe width="428" height="335" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Al_J8GnWqM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
END EDIT]
For a reason I don't know, the embed codes provided by some sites other than YouTube don't work on lj. But fortunately embed codes from the old days do. So, for those interested, here they are [EDIT: But don't expect them to work anymore]:
Dailymotion's old code, which uses Shockwave Flash (Wonder Girls "I Feel You" live):
<object width="428" height="345"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/x307wr3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x307wr3" width="428" height="345" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
I got x307wr3 from the URL:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x307wr3_wonder-girls-i-feel-you-live-832015_music
[EDIT: And now, if you're reading this on lj, what you're getting isn't likely to be working, and if you're reading this on Dreamwidth, what you're getting is (1) YouTube again, of (2) the wrong video, which likely will change from day-to-day. And as I write this (3/8/22) many of the old videos on my Dreamwidth, prior to when I did the import in 2017, are the wrong video. The Dreamwidth algorithm is haywire. I'm going through the old posts on the Dreamwidth, one by one, trying to replace wrong videos with the correct ones, and hoping the correct ones then stay correct, crossing my fingers. But I'm not revising this post below this point, not even the EDITS.]
So, you can use that as a model and plug in the appropriate video. But since it too uses the slow-loading, high bandwidth Shockwave Flash, you might want to use a newer Dailymotion code instead (though for all I know it also uses Shockwave Flash [EDIT: indeed, it does]). This is the one for Wonder Girls' live "Rewind" (x307uyf):
<iframe frameborder="0" width="428" height="345" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x307uyf" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Here's a Youku code for Fat Cat's "My Love Bad Boy":
<embed src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMzA5NTc3NTU2/v.swf" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" width="428" height="345" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
It uses Shockwave Flash too, though. I couldn't find a Youku coded that worked on lj but that didn't use Shockwave Flash.
And here we are on Toudu, again needing Shockwave Flash (track is T-ara's "T-aratic Magic Music"), and I guess the ratio takes care of itself:
<embed src="http://www.tudou.com/v/VymxI5qT1j8/&resourceId=0_04_05_99/v.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
Speaking of Wonder Girls, they've pulled off a conceptual coup of sorts** by coming back as a four-piece band — playing instruments as they perform, all songs with co-writing credits from one or another of the performers. What's amusing/intriguing about the concept is, as I said to Mat, they're using it on styles of music that were originally created by and for preprogrammed beats and studio synths: the basic Hi-NRG, freestyle, Italodisco, synthpop panoply that was my favorite music of the '80s. And as Mat points out, the word "freestyle" is now, finally, appearing in actual promo copy. ("I Feel You is Park Jin Young's creation. It is inspired by the freestyle music that came out of the Latin American community in New York in the '80s, featuring synth instruments and a syncopated base rhythm.") And David clues me in to the fact that fans are noticing too.
"I Feel You" rides a freestyle riff without going full-steam into the dolorous vocals and delirious beats that NY freestyle found its way to, nor into the wild passion of Miami. It's more on the frothy early '80s Madonna cusp. As I've been saying relentlessly, South Korea has been pulling this aspect or that from freestyle for years, using them all over, though never combining all the parts at once. Nor should it, necessarily. There's plenty else to combine with.
While the Wonder Girls album, Reboot, doesn't have any truly dominant, enthralling melody, the sound is warm and pretty, and gentle for all its energy.
<iframe width="428" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_KMyql7K98o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
In further admin news, I've killed the k-pop tag, because about half my posts since 2011 took the tag, which was therefore overwhelming and subduing all other names on my tag display to the right. After I killed the tag, I realized that what I should have done was simply change the tag to go year by year (e.g., "k-pop 2012"), so you could follow the story. Oh well. I've kept tags on my first two K-pop posts ever, where anhh, Sabina, Mat, and Tari jumped into the comments to school me in the music. I still return to those lessons. Meanwhile, if you click "t-ara" and "snsd" and "no tiers for the creatures of the night" you get a lot of the tale.
*Shockwave Flash is used on a lot of videos and ads; it eats up time loading and monopolizes your CPU if the CPU is old, or even not so old. Causes my girlfriend's computer to limp and to freeze. Also, apparently, there are security vulnerabilities on non-updated versions of Shockwave Flash. I'm linking Vox's article on where to get the Flashcontrol app (article contains links for various browsers). It's easy to implement, and if there's something you want to see that Flashcontrol disables, you can view it simply by clicking on the red Flashcontrol icon. I do wonder what blocking Shockwave Flash does to the LiveJournal and NY Times and Sports Illustrated etc. business models, given that so many of their ads use Shockwave Flash. But look, it's not our fault their advertisers' software causes problems.
**that I hope doesn't eventually turn into a cul-de-sac.
