Flickr slide shows?

[BMWST?]

How quaint. Do you still check markup too?

:-)

i dont know what you mean.....i will leave you guys to it ,stick with what i do know,and try to remedy anything i do which upsets anyone

[xwhatsit]

In case that other website goes down, here's how to do it.

Paste the following code into your post exactly as it's written here, minus the line breaks (keep it as one long line, although put a space between the URL and the `frameBorder' part).

<iframe src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow
/index.gne?user_id=8194795@N05&set_id=72157601011665122"
frameBorder=0 width=500 scrolling=no height=400></iframe>

Now the bits you want to change is the user_id -- in this example, the user_id is `8194795@N05'. Most of the times when you view the set (especially if you click on the link to display a slideshow in Flickr) the user_id is the first thing listed after `/photos/' in the URL. However sometimes it's not there. The easiest way to do it if you don't know the user_id for the Flickr set you want, is to go to http://idgettr.com/ and paste in the link to the set.

The other thing you need to change is the set_id -- in this example, the set_id is `72157601011665122'. To find the set_id, go to the Flickr set you want and click on the slideshow button. This will open up a big slideshow. Look in the address bar of your browser -- the last half of the URL says something like `/sets/72157613288461253/show/with/3251692730/'. You want to take the long number after the `/sets/' part (I've bolded it to make it obvious).

The attributes of the iframe are best left as is -- the slideshow needs to be at least 500 pixels wide, otherwise the slideshows will be cut off when you click on the pics for info. Don't make it too enormous though or that will break the forum tables and make Cajun apoplectic.

[James Deuce]

Thank you sir, very good work indeed.

[Big Dave]

i dont know what you mean.....i will leave you guys to it ,stick with what i do know,and try to remedy anything i do which upsets anyone

Sorry - was just trying to be witty. Fail.

I meant with the amount of online video, streaming, bit torrents and file sharing going on - a few kb of code isn't much.

I assumed the slide show doesn't load/stream till clicked - Xwhatsit?

[Big Dave]

Well done indeed. I had encountered that cut off while experimenting.

To embed on our blog is: Copy. Paste.

link r dave

[xwhatsit]

Sorry - was just trying to be witty. Fail.

I meant with the amount of online video, streaming, bit torrents and file sharing going on - a few kb of code isn't much.

I assumed the slide show doesn't load/stream till clicked - Xwhatsit?

Well to be honest I'm not sure. My computer is almost as old and slow as my bike, so I use a Firefox plugin called `Flashblock', which makes all embedded flash-whatevers disabled and not load/hidden until I click on them (some flash movies really bog down my little old laptop). I notice when I do click on the embedded slideshow to load it in the first place, it starts spooling data from Flickr straight away. But that might just be my situation (not sure how well Flashblock keeps mouse events isolated from the flash plugin).

At any rate, the amount of bandwidth needed by the Flickr slideshow is very low. Sure, it's higher resolution than Youtube, and the compression is not so severe, but the frame rate is like 0.2fps instead of 20fps+.

Not sure how smart the slideshow flash coding is, but if I were doing it I'd scale locally to approximate dimensions before sending the data (save yourself some money (and when you're Flickr, I imagine saving bandwidth is a priority) as well as making it faster for the users.