How to integrate with Colorbox [#1226748]

Hi,

I'm trying to embed Youtube videos via an Emfield and to display them in a Colorbox. This doesn't work well or not at all, depending on the browser I'm using. According to the Colorbox maintainer, this is an issue of the Emfield integreation, so I'm posting this as a follow-up to #1224062: How to integrate with emfield.

According to the Colorbox README.TXT, I enabled "Enable Colorbox load" for Embedded Media Field module at ./admin/settings/colorbox. After clearing all caches through 'admin_menu', this gave me exactly one "Colorbox" formatter on my content type's display settings: "Colorbox: Thumbnail -> video in full screen".

The Youtube video emfield now creates a thumbnail in my content type, and a colorbox opens when clicking on the thumbnail. Nothing else happens; there is no video embedded, and there are no controls - just an empty white colorbox with the title/description of the "embedded" Youtube video.

Modules used (all are "recommended" releases):

emfield 6.x-2.5
media_youtube 6.x-1.3
jquery_update 6.x-2.0-alpha1
colorbox 6.x-1.0

./admin/reports/status reports no problems, and watchdog logs no problems.

The behaviour seems to be somehow browser dependent. I'm getting the empty colorbox overlay in Opera 11.50. In FF or Chromium, I'm getting no colorbox overlay, but a new browser window with the embedded Youtube video.

Screenshot in Opera
Screenshot in Chromium

Comments

Comment #1

jhofer CreditAttribution: jhofer commented 7 August 2011 at 21:21

subscribing

Comment #2

asb CreditAttribution: asb commented 19 September 2011 at 07:38

Priority:

Normal

» Major

I just experienced this behaviour again on another site, where the issue prevents the sensible use of 'Media: YouTube' (link to youTube is a link generated through Views, clicking on link is supposed to open Colorbox overlay with embedded video); thus adjusting priority to "major".

Updated to emfield-6.x-2.x-dev and jquery_ui -6.x-1.5 with jQuery UI 1.7.3 and Colorbox plugin 1.3.17.2 with exactly the same behaviour.

I'd appreciate it if someone could confirm if the Colorbox integration can work (= I'm experiencing a configuration issue or an undocumented incompatibility), or if this functionality is simply broken.

Thanks!

Comment #3

cjdavis CreditAttribution: cjdavis commented 20 September 2011 at 04:59

I was having the same problem until I realized I was using emfield-6.x-1.26. Upgrading to 2.5 made it work aok. So yes, I do have it working properly at this point.

You may want to post this to the emfield queue for better visibility.

Comment #4

asb CreditAttribution: asb commented 20 September 2011 at 23:19

@cjdavis: Thanks for the confirmation, so I'll probably have to go through my setup once more. Even if the emfield queue might have better visibility, I don't want to spam it with a very specialized use case (Colorbox integration for Youtube videos), at least not unless I can prove that the 'emfield' module causes the problem (and not the Colorbox integration of 'Media: YouTube').