Looks like some vimeo embed urls do not contain the vimeo_id (ex: http://vimeo.com/daviddelossan/flowers-timelapse), and when that is the case, the video player does not load. However once you paste that url into a browser, it redirects to https://vimeo.com/98276732 which does contain the vimeo_id. Using the resulting redirected url loads the player.

So looks like a patch will need to be created that checks if the vimeo embed url has a redirect, and if it does, then the resulting redirected url should have the vimeo_id thus allowing the player to be loaded.

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#1 video_embed_field-vimeo_embed_url_redirect_to_grab_vimeo_id-2301065-1.patch3.49 KBBao Truong
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I created a patch that looks to see if the vimeo embed url has a redirect and if so, grab the vimeo_id which should be present in the resulting redirected url.

The code used to grab the redirect from the url was inspired by the following post at:
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/07/05/how-to-get-redirect-url-in-php

The only file that was modified in this patch is video_embed_field.handlers.inc, and the function modified was _video_embed_field_get_vimeo_id which now uses the newly created functions to grab the redirected url (_video_embed_field_get_redirect_url, _video_embed_field_get_all_redirects and _video_embed_field_get_final_url).