Hi

I have an error with my forum that the videos from Vimeo and not showing up correctly. 8 times out of 10 they show up correctly as a windows where you can click a play button and watch the video. Regular deal.

But in some cases the embedmed shows up as external link with and image included (see the image below).

But it should be shown as a videofile


Is there a way in Invision Community to update metadata to Vimeo or external links - similarly to Facebook sharing debugger (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/)
At the moment the solution has been that I reupload the video, because the metadata for that specific link is now set and will not update.

This a reoccuring thing and we would like to solve this once and for all.

Thank you!

As they are an oembed endpoint, they would show up however vimeo themselves show it within that endpoint. I suspect it is likely the settings on the video itself

Okay - so I should contact Vimeo for that?

Same link but sometimes if we use it in forum before the upload is compete in Vimeo, then it will show up as a rich hyperlink.
But if the upload is complete then it will show up as embedded video.

I'm not the one uploading those videos - so I'm solving this on the behalf of my team but it's a reaccuring problem, so we'll need some kind of solution.

Yes, it would be vimeo

I'm still struggiling with it.

The way I copy the link to forum is simple share link. And Invsion community converts it into embeded Vimeo link. And it has worked well for over 1,5 years, over 60 videos in posts. Why the suddend change? I cann't find any significant update from Vimeo side.

If I take any random video from Vimeo, then it will show the video correctly. I'm not sure if it is Vimeo - it seems to be a bug in Invision Community Forum. When the first "preview" of "embed" is made then in some situation it shows up as a external link rather than embedded video.

Can somebody help me with that?

You will not want to use a share link as that is likely not the proper link from Vimeo. I would just copy the link URL in your browser for the Vimeo video.

Yes - the link composition was the key.

The link needs to be vimeo.com/1234457789 etc

But they recently changed the sharing model, that in default it's expiration date for unlisted videos. So the link is vimeo.com/share/erafash2135ec

Need to change the expiration date for unlisted video to no expiration first. That seems to be a recent Vimeo updated.

Anyways - solved