How do you embed a Picasa Slide Show onto A2K?

Here you go:



I used the flash bbcode tags, but it requires that you make a special url. This trick will also work to embed a lot of other videos other than youtube. Here's how to do it:

1) Get the base flash file. The flash code will have src="" and between the quotes will be the url to the base flash file (usually ends in swf).

Unfortunately, this often requires that you pass in other variables so you aren't done there.


2) The necessary variables are are often found in in the flashvars (flash varialbles) attribute (what is between the quotes in flashvars=""). Copy those and combine them to your original base url by separating both with a question mark.

E.g. here is your base url:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf

Here are your flashvars:

host=picasaweb.google.co.uk&hl=en_GB&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.co.uk%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fizzielzzie454%2Falbumid%2F5380900399793721793%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_GB

Here they are in one url with the flashvars passed in as GET variables (variables after the ? in the url):

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf?host=picasaweb.google.co.uk&hl=en_GB&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.co.uk%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fizzielzzie454%2Falbumid%2F5380900399793721793%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_GB

You may want to test the url first, to make sure it works (it won't always work, but does the overwhelming majority of the time) and if it does you can then put it between flash bbcode tags to post it here.

So to recap, in your flash embed code, copy what's between the quotes in the src="" and paste it into a new tab's address bar (where you type urls). Go back to code and copy what's between the quotes in flashvars="". Type a question mark at the end of the first part of the url you pasted into the new tab, then paste the flashvars. Load the url and if it works copy the whole thing and paste it between flash bbcode tags.

Very cool!

Both that it can be done, and this specific slide show, from what I've seen of it...

Wonderful, both the slide show and the how-to directions. Thank you.

Thanku Robert....






I'm missing summat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't get the url to work and can't see where I've gone wrong.

mmmmmmmmmm. sorry - rubbish at this.

Your url is exactly the same as mine except that it uses a different album id. So maybe the one you picked isn't setup to be displayed this way.

OK........ errrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now it's there??????????????? It's suddenly appeared


(confused)






and THANKU THANKU!

oh that's brilliant - they work! (gosh, so much easier than having to upload to photobucket and then clog up the threads - fabulous - thanku)

Wow, you take lovely photos.

Thanks for digging this treasure up Ceili.