EasyTube Mambot – UNSUPPORTED

THIS PLUGIN IN NO LONGER SUPPORTED AS OF 12/10/2008

Introduction
The EasyTube plugin allows you to easily embed any YouTube or Google video in your webpage using a tag. All you need is the URL for the YouTube or Google video which can easily be found on each website, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_czeyN2Vo

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HELP & SUPPORT
For help and support please see forums.ejump.co.uk
Features

Embed YouTube Videos
Embed Google Videos
Ability to set Dimensions
Valid XHTML
Transparent Background [NEW v0.2]

Installation

Login to Mambo/Joomala and goto mambots, upload and install the easytube file.
Activate the mambo

The kind people over at “Anyone Can Be A Web Master” created a video demonstration of how to install this plugin here.
Usage
To embed a youtube or google video player, all you need to do is insert one simple tag into your page which takes the form [ youtube:URL] or [ googlevideo:URL]
The URL is the url of the video in Youtube or Google Videos, just copy and paste from your browser address, e.g. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRfxikK9aQ

You can also set the width and height of the player as follows:
[ youtube:URL WIDTH HEIGHT] or [ googlevideo:URL WIDTH HEIGHT]

NOTE: No whitespace at the beginning of the tag.

Credits
Thanks to Kristin for XHTML corrections.
Mambo:
[download:/files/mambo/easytube-mambo-0.2.zip EasyTube v.0.2]
[download:/files/mambo/easytube-mambo-0.1.zip EasyTube v.0.1]

Joomla:
[download:/files/mambo/easytube-joomla-0.2.zip EasyTube v.0.2 for Joomla 1.5]

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124 thoughts on “EasyTube Mambot – UNSUPPORTED”

robinho on July 15, 2007 at 6:34 pm said:

can you set the initial volume setting….it’s really quiet when the video loads, but i have developed a site for blind users so it needs to be initially a bit louder.

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Ken on July 21, 2007 at 10:51 pm said:

I get EasyTube to embed in a Joomla content item, but not in a VirtueMart product detail page, which uses the same html editor. Any ideas? (The shop isn’t live on the site now, in case you check).

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Sarah on July 22, 2007 at 6:16 pm said:

Have installed the mambot but cannot get it to show youtube videos. When I view the page I’ve got a video link on, all I get is

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb1_h9bguvI

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Anton on July 30, 2007 at 1:01 pm said:

Hi,

I use the easytube plugin on my website and it works great, but the backgroundcolor is white and my website is black.
Any chance I can change the background color of the video?

(I mean the color that is around the videoplayer)

thanks in advance

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Paul on July 31, 2007 at 9:36 am said:

Hi Anton,
There is a way to do this but it will involve editing the script. I am considering doing this as standard so if you can hang on a couple of days, I will make it look sweet (hopefully).

Paul

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Anton on July 31, 2007 at 2:42 pm said:

Hi Paul,

Sure I could wait a couple of days, no problem…
It would only make my website look better and I can finally show my own made videos on my own website…
Would be superb if this would be possible!
Thanks man.

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Joe on August 2, 2007 at 4:42 pm said:

Excellent plugin – worked first time. easy!

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Jherich on August 8, 2007 at 6:19 am said:

I’m seeing just the text of my post “[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb1_h9bguvI

I’m using joomla 1.5RC on my test site, any idea of what could be causing this. I did not see a specific download for 1.5, but it was listed as compatible.

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Paul on August 8, 2007 at 9:03 am said:

Have you activated the plugin after installation? I have also just written a version for Joomla 1.5 so it may be work installing that.

Thanks

Paul

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Davied on August 8, 2007 at 9:48 am said:

Paul,

wonderful plugin: it’s simple and it works very well for me.

One thing I was still thinking about: is it possible for the video to start automatically when opening the page?

:~Davied

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Paul on August 8, 2007 at 11:57 am said:

There is a way, but I will need to edit the script! What system are you using? I’ll add it to that script first.

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Mikesamar on August 8, 2007 at 9:22 pm said:

Wonderful simple plugin!

Is it possible to add flickr to this plugin?

I’m looking into using this plugin with my googlemaps plugin.

Mike

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Paul on August 9, 2007 at 7:26 am said:

It probably is possible. What exactly would you want the flickr part to do? Just create a flash badge or show a specific picture?

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Jherich on August 10, 2007 at 5:31 pm said:

Everything seems correct, I’m even trying some of the sample videos, but still I only have the tag showing up nothing else.

this is what I get,

http://www.ntxbmx.com/testsite

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Mikesamar on August 10, 2007 at 5:40 pm said:

What do you mean with flash badge?
I would like to show a specific photo.

I’ve integrated your plugin with my plugin Googlemaps and it works great!
See at Integration
It’s now easy to add video in a googlemap.

Mike

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Doesnt work for me on August 11, 2007 at 12:52 pm said:

The install fails for me saying :-

Upload mambot – Upload Failed
ERROR: Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package.
[ Continue ... ]
Upload mambot – Failed
Installation file not found:
F:wampwwwjoomlamediainstall_46bdb38f8d813easytube-joomla-0.2
[ Continue ... ]

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Paul on August 11, 2007 at 7:22 pm said:

What version are you using to do this? The current version is for 1.5 of joomla. If it doesnt work, try the older version, the mambot for Mambo.

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Axel.salsero on August 14, 2007 at 11:40 am said:

Hi Paul.
I’m using Joomla 1.0.13.
I’ve downloaded your bot but can’t install it.
I get errors “ERROR: Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package.”
Is it a 4th Dimention trick? Everyone seem to be ok and using it.
I took it from there: http://www.paulbain.co.uk/files/mambo/easytube-joomla-0.2.zip

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Axel.salsero on August 14, 2007 at 1:37 pm said:

Solved I downloaded Mambo latest version and it works like a charm! Great work

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Jeff on August 16, 2007 at 12:57 pm said:

I don’t understand. How is this different than just creating a content page and inserting the ‘embed video’ string that youtube gives you right on your video page? That’s all I did.. and works just fine.

????

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Paul on August 16, 2007 at 1:21 pm said:

It’s just for speed of use and to help people who are using WYSIWYG editors. Try pasting the embed code into the TinyMCE editor and see what you get!

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Gil on August 20, 2007 at 3:42 am said:

What I need for my site is this:

1. Module to display in frontpage
2. Create a URL’s list of videos
3. Display random video from the list

Make a difference.

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Gwilym on August 20, 2007 at 11:36 pm said:

Hi there,

I’ve set this up in Joomla trying to get at Googlevideos and no luck… you can see it here

http://www.cactusclimbing.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=91

Any ideas (I’ve looked at the source of the tag and it seems ok)..

Any help appreciated.

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Paul on August 21, 2007 at 6:24 am said:

Hi Gwilym, I can view that page as its locked, if you could either send me the source of the page after it has loaded or put it on a page I can view I should be able to help.

Paul

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Cibele on August 21, 2007 at 9:35 pm said:

Hey Paul, it’s me again. I already commented more above about the white background of videos so, im here again to ask you how will i know about the “fixed” script? Are you gonna put a warning here when it’s okie to download or will you email me saying the news? Just for asking…

Thank-you.

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Vanessa on August 23, 2007 at 3:57 am said:

nice! thanks alot for this plugin, been looking for one to do this for my site!

- Vanessa

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Frank on August 24, 2007 at 3:46 pm said:

I am using Joomla 1.5RC with the latest nightly builds installed. I use TinyMCE version 2.1.1.1 as WYSIWYG editor. Problem: no video shows. Just the text I had put before the link and the text after the youtube link.
The plugin is published, of course
Any idea what the problem could be ?

Thanks
Frank

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Jakob on August 28, 2007 at 3:18 am said:

Hi,
I have the same problem as DAN… I entered the sintax in the main story of my news and I got this error:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRfxikK9aQ” height=”" type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/”>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Any solution?

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Todd Tomlinson on August 31, 2007 at 10:24 pm said:

I’m having exactly the same problem with 1.5. I’ve tried using an HTML editor and putting the tag in there (although I know that it shouldn’t make a difference). I’ve tried spaces at the front, back middle. HELP — looks like a great component but only if it works.

Todd Tomlinson
Lighthouse Technology Group
http://www.lighthousetechnologygroup.com

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Ricky on September 1, 2007 at 7:36 pm said:

Hi, I downloaded the 1.5 version… It installs successfully. EasyTube does not show in the plugin manager so I cannot enable it. It does show as a plugin that I can uninstall though.
Any ideas? Thank you! Ricky

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Ricky on September 1, 2007 at 8:19 pm said:

It now shows up and works!! (just did) Thanks.

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unable to find XML on September 12, 2007 at 3:14 pm said:

i have been trying to install this manbot but there is no way to make the upload complete or inmstallation

besides there is no installation program or xml
i can see only 3 files

what is the trouble to install that grrr its dryving me crazy grrr
help me out here >(

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Paul on September 12, 2007 at 3:16 pm said:

I can gess your problem! You are using Joomla which is less than version 1.5. For this version you need to use a mambot not the joomla plugin. Don’t blame me, blame joomla for changing their plugin stucture!

Thanks

Paul

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John McKay on September 13, 2007 at 3:25 am said:

I just wanted to say for those people who have been seeing the error message about requiring a browser based flash player – Well that was it for me. I went to Adobe and installed the IE plugin and everything works like those people with no problem…..

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Matt S on September 13, 2007 at 12:33 pm said:

Thanks for a really useful simple mambot. Is it possible to set videos to autoplay? It isn’t something I’d want to do often, but occasionally it’s useful.

I’ve tried adding the &autoplay=1 to the video url but JCE is rewriting the ampersand. Even editing the database directly it still doesn’t work.

Wondered if it would be easy to include this as a variable.

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shonagh on September 27, 2007 at 1:16 pm said:

hi there,
ive been trying to the plugin with mambo for embedding youtube and google videos on to my site. but i cant seem to make them work in internet explorer. it seems on this site the vid doesnt work in IE either.
does anyone have a solution for this?

also does anyone know about google maps???!
just to show you….here is what I am trying to do…
http://shonaghhurley.blogspot.com/ (on my blog you can see a number of
maps-holding video and picture information)
I want to put those maps on to my company website…
http://www.newberlintours.com/nbt/in…id =2&lang=en
(i want the maps to be in place of where the 4 videos are -you will see near the top of the page!)
Does anyone know a simple way to do this?

will have to plot all the individual markers manually myself?

thanks so much everyone x
shonagh x xx

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v0.2 works super on October 7, 2007 at 6:39 am said:

It works fine with mambo version 4.6.2.

Be carrefull using only one whitespace between URL, WIDTH and HEIGHT

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Buddy on October 11, 2007 at 12:05 am said:

The trick is to use the mambo 1.0 on joomla. It worked like a champ!! Love it!!

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Andrea on October 12, 2007 at 8:23 am said:

Hi,
sorry for my english for fisrst.
I’have a problem in one web site where i use this plug in. With Firefox no have problem for view youtube film, in IE7 no view.
Need you have any suggestions?
The web site is
http://www.ariaprecaria.org
Thank’s
Andrea

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eone on October 13, 2007 at 3:03 am said:

working with joomla and esytube. after the video is played back, the related video (from youtube) is being shown at the bottom of the video screen.

tried to add “&rel=0″ as recomended by youtube:[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=q4sw2kOgZHY&rel=0

However, it does not work. The "&" [ampersand] is not working.

Any help on this?
Thanks.

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xanekka on October 15, 2007 at 3:07 pm said:

Hi Paul,

I have Joomla RC3 and EasyTube v.0.2 for Joomla 1.5. I can’t seem to make it work. Only the text show up. But as I was playing with it, I found that if I don’t publish it, it works. When I publish it, it becomes text. I hope this is useful.

xanekka

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vicky on October 27, 2007 at 8:21 am said:

great plugin, thanks Paul
i will try with my web : http://www.vickyshine.com

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Brian J on November 6, 2007 at 5:26 pm said:

Help Please
im going to install bot- then select the zip file. I get this message. Im using Joomla

Upload mambot – Upload Failed
ERROR: Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package.

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jaSON on November 30, 2007 at 4:14 am said:

I get the error, can’t find xml . Like Brian J
Help please.

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Paul on January 3, 2008 at 9:34 am said:

IF YOU ARE GETTING CANNOT FIND XML YOU ARE USING THE WRONG VERSION! USE THE VERSION WHICH IS FOR MAMBO. THE CURRENT VERSION IS FOR JOOMLA 1.5+

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A very pleased User on January 10, 2008 at 2:23 am said:

Heyyy nice work! I really like this work of yours. How ever, I do have a question or rather a request. Is’t it possible make/ creat a module that shows the latest video on either right side or left side of front side? Just like the Ramdom image module but with intro text with it?

Anyway I appreciate your work.

Thanks

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steve on January 10, 2008 at 10:36 am said:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2LfTXItjPqM” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/”>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

what did i do wrong here?

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Paul on January 10, 2008 at 10:43 am said:

Probably have the wrong version of flash installed. Please make sure you have the most revent version.

Can you send me a link of a page with the error on and I’ll take a look.

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steve on January 10, 2008 at 11:07 am said:

thx paul…..
heres link as requested:

http://conflict-ffow.com/

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steve on January 10, 2008 at 11:08 am said:

and i did install the mambo version of 0.2 for info..

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EasyTube Mambot – UNSUPPORTED

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