Although I am not sure what kind of software I should write next, I am certain that I will maintain and update what I have already written. And I have recently found that I needed to update one of my Greasemonkey scripts as well as the Firefox extension that I wrote. The Greasemonkey script that I wrote titled “Link to YouTube Video Pages from Embedded YouTube Videos” was found to not work with an embedded video, so I corrected it. The Firefox extension titled “Bookmark Current Tab Set” that I wrote needed to have an update made to its user interface, and so that update was made. These updates may certainly not have been critical, although I do consider these updates necessary.
This Greasemonkey script that I wrote did not work with embedded videos that were embedded a certain way, and so I made the necessary corrections to it. I also added a feature to it so that it would not add links to YouTube pages on the main Google Video page. This was done because there already is a link below the embedded video that is featured on that page to the page on YouTube where that video can be found. These updates were quite minor, although they needed to be made.
In version 0.2.0 of the Firefox extension that I wrote, I added a menu option that brings up a dialog box. However, it was only after releasing this version of the extension that I thought that I should add an ellipsis to the end of the title of this menu option. I could have checked the extension more thoroughly for errors both in functionality and in the user interface before releasing version 0.2.0 of the extension. However, as is it often said that those who write this kind of software should release early and release often, I chose to release it before I could check for all errors that I might have made in writing it.
I am currently trying to decide on what kind of software to write next, and I am not sure what my focus should be. However, I am sure that I will continue to make the necessary updates to what I have already written.
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Hi, until a couple of days ago it was possible to have your videos on autostart at the front-page. The same goes for when you embedded a video at for example Myspace (&autostart=1) — is it me or YoutTube who took that away? Do you have any clue to how one can solve this problem?
Great Thoughts jvc
Hello.
If I understand correctly, you would like to know how embedded YouTube videos can be played automatically once the page on which they are embedded has loaded. Although this does not seem to be related to the Greasemonkey user script for YouTube that I wrote about in this blog post, I could give information on this that you may find useful.
As you may know, parameters can be added to the ends of URLs used to embed videos. The parameter for setting whether or not the video is to automatically be played is “autoplay”. Therefore, “&autoplay=1″ must be added to the end of the URL used to embed the video in order for the video to be played once the embedded player is loaded. For more information on these parameters, you may click here to view documentation on them.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask them. I hope this helped.
Thanks,
J.K.
I very much appreciate your “Link to YouTube Video Pages from Embedded YouTube Videos” Greasemonkey userscript. I am a bit puzzled, however. I first used it on this page:
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/05/15/the-10-most-popular-world-of-warcraft-videos-of-all-time/
And I ran into a problem with the final video. When I hover over the link to the No. 1 video (the “Dancing” video), it gives me the correct URL for the video. However, when I click on it, it takes me to the video for #4 on the page (the video set to the “300″ trailer audio).
Any idea what might be going on?
Hello, and thank you for your comment.
I viewed that page to which you posted a link. And I also found that when clicking the link that the script adds below the video that you mentioned, the page for a different video appears. I took some time to determine why this occurs, and was able to determine the cause of this.
As you may have seen by reading the comments on that page, the video that was originally embedded there was not the correct one. This appeared to be corrected. However, after viewing the source code of the page, that embedded video is within a link to a different video. I am not sure why videos are embedded within links on that page. However, that is one other error on that page that needs to be corrected.
Perhaps the script could be updated so that situations like that could be handled. However, I have never seen a video embedded this way before, and this situation and this error seem to be extremely rare. However, I will consider making updates so that the script will work in this situation, especially if I ever see anything like this happen again.
Thanks again,
J.K.
Thanks for investigating this matter so deeply. Please don’t go to too much trouble, since the situation was an edge-case anomaly.
Investigating this was not a problem, as I like to assist those who have questions about the software that I have written. Although I may not modify the script so that it will work in situations like the one that you encountered, I will continue to update it whenever necessary.
Thanks again,
J.K.
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