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[BigV]

in other news, this video cracks me the hell up!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Runaway tractor...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Happiness...

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Happiness...

As the saying goes, 'even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat'.

And the section about 30 secs in appears to have been inspired by bitter experience on the London Tube network.
Northern Line anyone?

[xoxoxoBruce]

What the hell? I enter the Vimeo info with the format and also wrote the link in case anyone is having the same problem I am with the thing showing as a fuzzy picture that won't do anything nor a clue as to what or where it is. Then it took the link and made it a second fuzzy picture.

The link is https://vimeodotcom/244405542

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Happiness...

The images are nice and sharp for me. I don't know why the link displays as another image. When I quote your post and preview it, the preview is fine with both an image and a link.

Now I'm going to post the quote and see what happens ...

[sexobon]

Since the preview of the quote continues to be fine in the Cellar software, I'd guess the issue is at the Vimeo end; but, who knows.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, it's not just here every site I look at with a Vimeo video it's the same thing.

Damn, in Chrome I can't see the Vimeo videos but I can see the utube videos. I just tried IE and I can see the Vimeo videos fine but the utube videos just show up as black squares.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Since the preview of the quote continues to be fine in the Cellar software, I'd guess the issue is at the Vimeo end; but, who knows.

I may have guessed right!

I asked Google "Why does the VIMEO URL link display a video?" Among the results I found was Vimeo supports oEmbed, which allows you to turn a Vimeo URL into an embed link. I followed a link therein to oEmbed is an open standard for embedding videos and/or images into a website. A link in that page led me to the explanation:

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly. …

… 1. Quick Example

A consumer (e.g. WordPress) makes the following HTTP request:

http://www.flickr.com/services/oembed/?format=json&url=http%3A//www.flickr.com/photos/bees/2341623661/

The provider (e.g. Flickr) then responds with an oEmbed response:

{
	"version": "1.0",
	"type": "photo",
	"width": 240,
	"height": 160,
	"title": "ZB8T0193",
	"url": "http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2341623661_7c99f48bbf_m.jpg",
	"author_name": "Bees",
	"author_url": "http://www.flickr.com/photos/bees/",
	"provider_name": "Flickr",
	"provider_url": "http://www.flickr.com/"
}

This allows the consumer to turn a URL to a Flickr photo page into structured data to allow embedding of that photo in the consumer's website.

In our case, the Cellar is the consumer and VIMEO is the provider. It seems that the provider can choose to convert the VIMEO URL into an oEmbed HTTP request at the provider's site. The sharing properties of your video does say that it contains a text code. The provider (VIMEO) then gives an oEmbed response and controls whether or not posting a URL results in a video appearing.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it (until someone proves me wrong).

[xoxoxoBruce]

I tried a couple other sites and chrome Vimeo=no, utube=yes, whereas with IE Vimeo=yes, and utube=yes, on those sites..

Excuse me Lord, the name is Bruce, not Job.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Did you hear that, are you sure?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh noes...

[Gravdigr]

Damn, what a thump.

[gtown]

I had the hose going full blast in the pool and it kept making these little whirlpools that I thought were cool. The sound at the start is my neighbor's lawnmower but the whirlpool does make a cool sound when it reaches the hose and air gets sucked into the stream. Pic so you know the money shot...

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder if you could do that with a straw in a soda if you sucked hard enough?