[Adminsysters] embedding peertube videos

Tue Oct 28 11:45:37 CET 2025

ah ok - it does 🙂 but also when i click to get the embed code, it's 
already showing this error message, when i'm still on our tube. do you 
also see that?

i'm on https://tube.systerserver.net/w/n5k4Jo6Tyc5BrWUqAfmDri & i click 
to share & select embed, & it tells me the player isn't compatible with 
my browser. (i've tried in different browsers).

it won't let me copy the error details here, but it seems to be mostly 
about the colour palette which is weird.

as a test, i tried embedding a video from the mur.at tube 
(https://tube.graz.social/w/j4jbqZ2pyq6aE1Wi447zW7?start=5s) into my 
wordpress site, and it works. i haven't manually whitelisted 
tube.graz.social to the wordpress configuration & it's a small instance 
so i wouldn't expect it to be automatically whitelisted by wordpress. i 
checked the code & it's all the same (slightly different order of the 
attributes so i reordered but that doesn't make any difference).

i tried embedding a different video from our tube, and it also doesn't 
work. the error is also showing already in the embed code popup on our 
tube; i've had a look at quite a few other small peertube instances, and 
haven't found this error anywhere else. i've been able to embed video 
from every other tube instance that i've tried without getting this error.

so i think it must be something not configured properly in our instance 
... ??? could it even be something to do with this colour palette? it 
must be something that was changed recently, as when i embedded this 
video about a year ago it was working then & for some time after.

h :/

On 10/27/25 19:59, ¬ ` wrote:
> hi Helen,
>
> i also see no url in embed pop-up but when i click on `copy` button next to the url field it does copy link
>
> we are using a custom theme/css where atm the url and its background are the same, gray color {that we can easily adjust}
> if there are deeper issues , maybe a peertube upgrade can solve it {i flagged it in our upcoming monthly meeting notes https://eth.leverburns.blue/p/systerserver-monthly}
>
>
> e./n
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> _____ EOM
> ¬` vo ezn
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> On Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 at 5:01 PM, Helen Varley Jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>
>> i've had some other advice about this issue that suggests it could be
>> something to do with the configuration of our peertube instance, because
>> now when i click to share any of the videos on our tube, there is no url
>> or embed code displayed in the pop-up window.
>>
>> maybe there are multiple things contributing to the issue, but it does
>> seem that we need to do something on the https://tube.systerserver.net/
>> end of things to have that information available again? (it did used to
>> be there, that's how i embedded the video in the first place).
>>
>> h :/
>>
>> On 10/17/25 23:40, ¬ ` wrote:
>>
>>> oEmbed is a protocol for embedding content from other websites
>>>
>>> https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/oembed_providers/
>>> ``` Since WordPress 4.4, oEmbed discovery is enabled for all users and allows embedding of sanitized iframes. The providers in this list are sanctioned, meaning they are trusted and allowed to embed any content, such as iframes, videos, JavaScript, and arbitrary HTML.
>>>
>>>>> https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/wordpress/oembed/#does-this-work-with-any-url
>>>>> `Does This Work With Any URL? No, not by default. The WordPress Core has an internal whitelist that will only allow certain URLs to be embeddable for security reasons. The good news is that the whitelist can be modified, and new sites and URLs can be added by registering their handle.`
>>> seems like you need to whitelist peertube from your wordpress
>>>
>>> _____ EOM
>>> ¬` vo ezn
>>>
>>> On Sunday, October 12th, 2025 at 1:24 PM, Helen Varley Jamieson helen at creative-catalyst.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> thanks for this ezn 🙂 i am using iframe, & it did work when i first did
>>>> it, it's only recently stopped working.
>>>>
>>>> i don't really understand the info about oEmbed - does it mean that i
>>>> need to have support for that with my hosting provider? we have the
>>>> mobilise/demobilise website hosted at digital ocean, alongside the
>>>> UpStage website and platform. i will try to investigate further (our
>>>> lead developer is currently taking a break so i can't ask her at the
>>>> moment).
>>>>
>>>> has anyone else had this problem, with embedding videos from our
>>>> peertube? i can't be the only one who has a wordpress site with a video
>>>> from our tube on it ... ??
>>>>
>>>> h : )
>>>>
>>>> On 10/11/25 19:56, ¬ ` wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hi Helen,
>>>>>
>>>>> i read here {https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/watch-video} :: `Wordpress, for example, requires the PeerTube website to be whitelisted (otherwise the embed will be broken).`
>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/wordpress/oembed/#does-this-work-with-any-url
>>>>>>> `Does This Work With Any URL? No, not by default. The WordPress Core has an internal whitelist that will only allow certain URLs to be embeddable for security reasons. The good news is that the whitelist can be modified, and new sites and URLs can be added by registering their handle.`
>>>>>>> https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/wordpress/oembed/#how-can-i-add-or-change-support-for-websites
>>>>>>> `How Can I Add or Change Support For Websites? Adding support for an additional website depends on whether the site supports oEmbed. oEmbed.com provides a list of hundreds of supported provides.`
>>>>>>> and in their `supported providers` {https://oembed.com/providers.json} is see peertube.tv
>>>>>>> i see also ppl are embedding peertube videos with iframe block
>>>>> ezn
>>>>>
>>>>> _____ EOM
>>>>> ¬` vo ezn
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, October 9th, 2025 at 4:42 PM, Helen Varley Jamieson helen at creative-catalyst.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> today i discovered that a video i have on our tube
>>>>>> (https://tube.systerserver.net/w/n5k4Jo6Tyc5BrWUqAfmDri) that i had
>>>>>> embedded on this website (https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/) is no longer
>>>>>> displaying there. it gives a message saying "Sorry. The player is not
>>>>>> compatible with your web browser. Please try latest Firefox version."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i tried the latest firefox version & the video still doesn't appear on
>>>>>> the web page. it certainly used to, i put it there a year or more ago &
>>>>>> it was working fine even recently.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> does anyone else have the same problem, or any idea about what the
>>>>>> solution might be? i've had a bit of a look online for info about
>>>>>> embedding peertube videos in wordpress sites, but haven't found anything
>>>>>> helpful. could be that a setting needs to be tweaked on our tube
>>>>>> instance? (because nothing changed on my website).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> h : )
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> helen varley jamieson
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http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.upstage.org.nz
https://mobilise-demobilise.eu