Question

First of all my site does not use Drupal.So any alternatives for a popup video player funcionality would be appreciated.

I want to show a popup you tube video player in my web page.I downloaded lighbox from the
following link: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/lightbox2-6.x-1.11.zip

I extracted the zip file into my sites root

I added the following lines in my page header:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/lightbox2/css/lightbox.css?1" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="/lightbox2/js/auto_image_handling.js?1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/lightbox2/js/lightbox_video.js?1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/lightbox2/js/lightbox.js?1"></script>

and the following in the body:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gBtF_awV2o" rel=lightvideo[width:500px;height:400px;]>
    <img src="sample" alt="Live TV">
</a>

But the video opens up in a new tab and not as a popup.Where am i going wrong?I cant find tutorials for this anywhere, although i have this kind of code in many other pages with popup videos.

Edit: Used shadowbox. Opens up youtube page instead of popup!

Edit: Problem solved! Got Shadowbox to work. It’s brilliant and easy. The commercial licence costs $20 though.

Answer 1

You probably are either not calling jQuery or lighbox correctly.

Make sure the have the two src correct.

I’m not sure I understood your question but you cant display video with lightbox, it says so in the FAQ and it recommends thickbox.

You could also use something videolighbox or any out there.

Good luck!