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I am trying to embed a Youtube video into the new version of Xerte. I can add a link to the video but the embed code produces a blank screen with an error message when you select it.
Is there a way to solve this.
Thanks.

Do any embed codes work, or just this one?

Thanks for getting back to me. Everything else has worked fine.
Since posting this our Blackboard team had a look and found that Youtube embeding works ok if you use the URL rather than the embed code so I have done this. To be honest I didn't think of using that as I didn't think it would work.
Sarah

Hi Sarah,

Was this in the "Youtube Video" page? It should also accept the embed code but perhaps something in the way it is formatted is breaking the parser...

Could you please post the embed code for the video that didn't work so that we can try to see what's going wrong?

Regards

John

Hello John,
Yes, it is the Youtube Video page

Here is the embed code
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yVD_nSLINms" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

This is the URL www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVD_nSLINms&feature=youtu.be&t=5s
It is the Nottingham University Xerte promo! We are doing a workshop session on Friday for our staff and I have included the video to demonstrate the ability to embed video. If you look at the messages underneath you will see that someone else also had problems getting it into Xerte.
Thanks,
Sarah

You're embed code is missing 'http in the link to the video: this works:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yVD_nSLINms" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>