An Easy Way To Embed Video?

  • tttt

    (@tttt)


    18 years ago

    Hello everyone. How are you? I love using wordpress, but I just don’t understand why is it so hard to embed videos from various services like youtube, google video, metacafe, dailymotion, etc.

    Why is this proces not simple? All I want to do is just embed the code into my wordpress blog and that’s it. Why do I have to search all around to find plugins, when this should just be a very easy task.

    Other platforms make it so easy to embed videos and I am just a bit confused.

    I am not here to say anything negative about wordpress, I am just a bit confused as to why embedding is such a frustrating process.

    Thanks You

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  • ekusteve

    (@ekusteve)

    For YouTube, just copy the embed code from the YouTube movie…here is the important part…..

    Disable the rich text editor in WP, then past the code in your post or page….publish and it should work fine.

    I have created a second administrator account on my blog for myself and disabled the rich text editor in the profile. When I want to embed video, I simply log in using that second account…I use the main account (with the rich text editor enabled) when I’m just doing simple stuff and want the ease of using the editor….works great.

    Steve

    Thread Starter tttt

    (@tttt)

    Steve, I never thought about doing that. Thanks.

    I am going to try that in a few minutes.

    It’s crazy you have to go through all this just to embed vidoes.

    Thanks Steve

    barryadair

    (@barryadair)

    Go here this is a Plugin that does it for you and works great
    https://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/

    Thread Starter tttt

    (@tttt)

    Steve and Barry thanks so much.

    Steve your method works great!

    Barry, thanks a million for telling me about that plugin.

    Both you of you saved me from some more frustarting hours.

    Big Thanks

    I’d like to put https://www.sample.com/sample.asx (video file) to a post. How the code be to make it run in both IE and Firefox?

    I tried

    <!–[if IE]>
    <object id=”WMP” classid=”CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6″ width=”320″ height=”240″>
    <param name=”URL” value=”https://www.sample.com/sample.asx&#8221; />
    </object>
    <![endif]–>
    <!–[if!IE]> <–>
    <object id=”WMP” type=”video/x-ms-asf” data=”https://www.sample.com/sample.asx&#8221; width=”320″ height=”240″>
    <param name=”src” value=”https://www.sample.com/sample.asx”&gt;
    Watch movie
    </object>
    <!–> <![endif]–>

    Firefox works fine both content and video. In IE content is gone but video is fine.
    When I viewed page source from IE, there are content part.

    And I try this:
    <object width=”300″ height=”273″ type=”video/x-ms-asf” data=”https://www.sample.com/sample.asx”&gt;
    <param name=”url” value=”https://www.sample.com/sample.asx&#8221; />
    <param name=”bgcolor” value=”ffffff” /><img width=”300″ height=”273″ class=”image” title=”No flash installed” alt=”No flash installed” src=”https://path-to/noflash.gif&#8221; /> </object>

    Video isn’t played in IE

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