Hi,

I have found out why it isn't possible to embed flickr videos in my Joomla site. I raised to ticket with flickr tech support and they said:

"....Yes, you are correct: if you would like to share videos from your Flickr account on your website, those videos must be viewed in your (flickr) account. I understand this is an inconvenience, and will definitely pass your great feedback along to the team for consideration. While I am unable to make any policy changes, I will escalate this to the decision making powers that be."

In view of this perhaps the reference to being able to play flickr embedded videos using this code {flickr}123456789{/flickr} should be removed from your compatibility list?

Thanks,

Andy

Hi Fotis,

Thanks for your reply. You are correct, flickr does not allow videos to be embedded in websites and in fact they will not play at all using Allvidoes, unfortunately. They say that "embedded" videos need to be "linked back to my flickr account", which means I have to "embed" the Flickr Share link on my website, which only shows a thumbnail picture from the video on my website and when it is clicked, takes you back to my flickr account and plays the video there - not on my website, which is useless and nothing like Allvideos working with Vimeo, Youtube etc. They have told me if I embed a flickr video on my website using a third party player it is against their policy and my account could be deleted.

I can provide you with the emails that they sent me if you like. I know you are very busy and this is a free extension and support is very limited, so I am not asking you to try and fix Allvideos not working with flickr. I only suggest you may want to correct your documentation regarding it's non-operation with flickr videos. Perhaps Allvideos once worked when flickr was owned by Yahoo but it doesn't work with now its owned by SmugMug.

Thanks for a brilliant plugin that works perfectly with the other video hosts I use.

Andy

Thanks, Fotis

Here is a suitable video www.flickr.com/photos/naughtygrandma/49274513796/

Does updating AllVideos to just use their JS widget mean it should fix the issue with flickr videos?

Thanks for looking into it Fotis,

If I find out that flickr does support external embedding (I have asked them to considers this for Pro members) I will let you know.