Embedding video from google photos

One of my users used to be able to embed videos from his google photos right into discourse. So if I wanted to view it, I could on the same screen. Now he can’t seem to get them embedded, and I’m taken away from discourse to view them. We’re both wondering what changed? Is there something else he can do?

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Is the video public?

Let me try:

Looks like Google Photos is also using expiring media now, so we can’t embed it properly…

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Hmm, do we need to change here @techAPJ? Expiring media is the worst… :roll_eyes:

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Updated Google Photos video onebox to be similar to instagram/reddit video onebox per:

https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/6ff2824ea60f6ddc5b0c3e14ebdc724274f5e7a4

Example:

EDIT: looks like video glyph styling is off, will fix.

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