Template talk:YouTube

Detecting Broken Videos
Would it be possible to detect when a broken link is used and add some category to pages with broken links? Currently the pane seems to load an all black preview image, not clear if there's meta-data allowing it to id'd as non-existent.Kolano (talk) 21:43, 29 May 2013 (CEST)
 * I think not, the thumbnail is generated by a parser function, so, whatever you put, the parser function will try to load a thumbnail based on what was specified when calling the function and won't give any feedback parameter/info that could be used to tag it as non-existant... Jhonn (talk)

YouTube Embed Options
Lately, I have been kind of disliking my uploads of File:Super_Mario_Galaxy_Boss_Roar_Wrong.png and File:Super_Mario_Galaxy_2_Boss_Roar_Wrong.png because I don't think they are demonstrating the bug well. I wanted to use YouTube videos instead. The problem is that the videos are too long and start at 0:00 where the bug doesn't exist at that point. There is a solution to this problem and that is parameters for embedded YouTube videos. For example:


 * https://www.youtube.com/embed/_WK7eWBoAqA?start=362&end=370
 * https://www.youtube.com/embed/KELFYCIJrM4?start=13&end=20

What do you guys think? Should the template be edited to allow for this? I tried to specify this in the existing template and it has errors. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) 21:02, 23 November 2015 (CET)
 * As far as I searched, EmbedVideo extension allow including more parameters in its recent versions, but we're using version 1.0 where that's not possible. In other words, it's not just a matter of modifying the template, the extension needs to be updated first. I'll contact Parlane about that... - Jhonn (talk) 02:06, 24 November 2015 (CET)
 * Cool. That sounds good. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) 03:15, 24 November 2015 (CET)
 * I think the EmbedVideo plug-in has been updated because now videos that are on pages display in 16:9 instead of the older 4:3. Should this template be updated to take advantage of the new parameters? --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) 21:25, 24 November 2015 (CET)
 * You can try, but the template may still need to be modified. Also please use VideoGallery, as we had purged out all the direct usage of these site specific templates a while ago. They probably should be purged out, but I was unclear if they were used under the covers of VideoGallery. Kolano (talk) 22:47, 24 November 2015 (CET)
 * I just copypasta from Sonic Adventure 2: Battle as someone else edited that in. Also I am unsure if the VideoGallery would break the one found in the Gameplay Videos section of each article. You will need to update the EmbedVideo documentation, YouTube, and VideoGallery code to allow for additional parameters. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) 23:40, 24 November 2015 (CET)