I have read varying responses to this but I am needing to know if my site plays and embedded Vimeo video will it count towards CDN billing? What do you think? Thanks!
It does not. When embedding a Vimeo asset on your site, it's likely using an iframe. e.g.
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/XXXXXXXX" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Video Title from User on Vimeo.</p>
Let's say a user requests the HTML page from your domain. Your CDN sends the HTML page (with the iframe code) to the user. This counts against your billing. Once the page is loaded by the user's browser, the browser reads the iframe and pulls the video content from vimeo.com (notice the iframe src value). Your CDN does not deliver video bits for Vimeo so you are not billed for that traffic.
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Is it possible to embed video into an email that will allow the viewer to watch the video within the email itself?
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbY_Szw8X7Q" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
When I use above iframe code in my email template instead of the video it showing blank.
The answer, unfortunately, is that it's not possible. You need to:
Provide a link to the video source (in your case https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbY_Szw8X7Q)
Attach this file as an mp4 to the email itself.
It depends on the E-mail provider. Each provider supports different "HTML E-mails". Some support iframes, others don't. I would encourage you to Google which E-mail providers support iframes, and which don't.
Some pointers:
https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2010/08/do-iframes-work-in-email/
https://www.simplycast.com/interactive-marketing-support/faqs/are-iframes-compatible-with-emails/
https://mailchimp.com/help/limitations-of-html-email/
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21773969/IFRAME-in-a-mail-possible.html
Etc...
You must not embed a video because it is not supported by major email clients. You may however show a thumbnail image, with a link. Once they click on on the thumbnail "play button", it redirects to the link URL, and plays the video, in a browser.
I used the default YouTube iFrame for my website. My users have said that upon entering the web app, it redirects them to youtube. I find this annoying for me and for my users.
Is there any way I can stop this from happening?
Here is the code that is causing the YouTube app to open:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wCtedSNYBLc?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The site this is on can be found here.
You can use "playsinline" parameter to play the video inline instead.
I wanted to Purchase a server to host a site and i am embedding SoundCloud in the site i want to that as youtube embedding uses youtube bandwidth and not the hosting website space. so similarly does soundcloud uses the bandwidth of the hosting site or its own bandwidth after embedding the soundcloud
Below is the iframe for Soundcloud
<iframe width="100%" height="800" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/users/23397058&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
The media is stored on SoundCloud’s servers and the browser fetches it from there.
Consider the following embed code of this video from Vimeo - Popular video hosting site:
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/41321504?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=c8c8c8" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
the video embed url(http://player.vimeo.com/video/41321504) does open, if open directly in new browser window but doesn't contain location of video anywhere in html source code, thereby preventing downloads,i guess this is a feature of flash DRM. But then, a third-party website comes in & was able to give the direct urls to same video
http://av.vimeo.com/42007/964/95995392.mp4?aksessionid=96d0b8ffbb4c0c04b1c6b7f1562de7d5&token=1343971749_85ce464ec3361604fbda75e38e29f4e8
From a programmers standpoint, i was wondering how does it work? how are these video downloaders able to fetch direct url of the videos which are not even present in html source? what is their process if anyone can explain that step-by-step.
They do server-side analysis of the flash object, which will establish a conection to download the video. That connection can easily be captured. That even works in a browser, with Firebug for example:
I have been looking for a way of embedding youtube videos into my site. The website is made of html and the youtube videos should auto-update as I would like to display all the videos on the current account? I know theres ways of embedding one video or playlists but Im not quite sure how to go about embedding everything on a users channel? Any Tips?
Just use the following as the src of an iframe:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=user_uploads&list=*USERNAME*
For example:
<iframe id="ytplayer" width="640" height="360"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=user_uploads&list=apple"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
You can get info on the parammeters of the player on this link: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#Manual_IFrame_Embeds
Scroll a little and you will see the url for user videos.