Web Viewer won't play youtube or vimeo pages

[mbarrett65]

I'm setting a webviewer with URLs from a separate field. It works fine for most URLs, however, YouTube URLs and Vimeo URLs aren't rendering, nothing shows in the webviewer. Videos play fine if part of a page like http://cnn.com. I have the webviewer in a popover. 

 

The attached screen:

- fm screen: how the URLs are formatted in a URL field

- fm screen2: what the web viewer does with a youtube url

- fm screen3: what the web viewer does with a cnn.com page with a video playing

- fm screen4: what the web viewer set up looks like.

Thanks for any insights.

 

 

Edited August 1, 2016 by mbarrett65
make it easier to read.

[mbarrett65]

Amending the above -- the problem seems limited to Webdirect. And it also seems that Safari blocks the flash plug-in.

[webko]

I believe that modern versions of Safari block it by default - there are instructions on how to make Safari view Flash content on the web...

[mbarrett65]

Thank you for your reply. I followed some instructions on an Apple help page to reinstall the Flash plug-in and adjusted Safari settings always to allow Flash. If I go to YouTube in Safari, I can play videos, no problem. However, when I bring up YouTube in a Webviewer from the Filemaker client, the page shows up but I get a "blocked plug-in" message for any videos. And from WebDirect, the page doesn't appear at all.

I am able to play Vimeo videos in the Webviwer from Filemaker client; but from WebDirect, the Vimeo page doesn't show at all.

[mbarrett65]

I guess the easiest workaround is to use the Open URL command. In this instance, it does what i need it to.