megavideo embed code not working in my wordpress blog

can anyone please help

youre just a little impatient dont you think?? you waited a whole 13 minutes before bumping.

// moving on.

this is wrong:

<object height="351" width="432"></object>

</div></div><param name="movie" value="https://www.megavideo.com/v/VHADOIOL5a858bc05c5c7f53a1085f9e9c4cad47.3808291690.0">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="https://www.megavideo.com/v/VHADOIOL5a858bc05c5c7f53a1085f9e9c4cad47.3808291690.0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="500" width="800">

wrong.

Even IF you excuse the fact that <param> is a self closing tag, and that using </param> is invalid, you dont even have THAT much.

you also have closing </object> tag in the wrong place.

AND, you dont need the embed tag, it does nothing.

If thats a plugin thats outputting that garbage, ditch it.

If your manually adding that garbage to your posts, learn how to do valid xhtml:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:800px; height:500px;" data="https://www.megavideo.com/v/VHADOIOL5a858bc05c5c7f53a1085f9e9c4cad47.3808291690.0"><param name="movie" value="https://www.megavideo.com/v/VHADOIOL5a858bc05c5c7f53a1085f9e9c4cad47.3808291690.0" /></object>

If you must use <param>, they are self-closing:

<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

but its working fine in mozilla firefox

what does that have to do with what I wrote? Firefox and IE arent the same browser.

If you want to argue, dont. Im right.

I have told you what you is wrong with what you are using to display flash objects. What I have provided will work in all current browsers. take my advice or leave it, it doesnt matter to me.

I’m able to see and watch all your videos in both Firefox and IE7.

Are you just doing a straight copy/paste of this code into your post from whatever site/plugin is generating it?

– nina

you see them now prolly because he/she is editing the code..

the first post has been edited, at least.The object tags are down below now.

I loaded the page in ie 6 and couldnt see them, I didnt even try 7 because it loads so slow.

whooami: I agree, the code is bad. Tho, every video displayed and worked on his/her page in IE7… which I find curious because I’ve been having a bunch of weird display & functionality issues between Firefox and IE myself. I don’t have IE6 online now, so I can’t test in that. Maybe I’ll try Safari and see how annoyed that wants to be over this.

Also, I didn’t know if the code for these videos was being spit out by some kind of YouTube clone, etc., which should be compliant in everything, I would think.

– nina

youtube code is not xhtml compliant, but yes it works in ie6.

Of course youtube code also has everything properly placed inside object tags, which the OP does not..

Either way, like I said, what i provided is valid XHTML and displays in every browser I have checked except Netscape Navigator.

I’m trying to embed a YouTube video into one of my WordPress blog posts that is hosted by BlueHost.

When I paste in the following YouTube code:

<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”https://www.youtube.com/v/uIX7gGW79Bw&hl=en”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”https://www.youtube.com/v/uIX7gGW79Bw&hl=en&#8221; type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object>

It erases the embed portion when I save it, leaving it like:
<object width=”425″ height=”355″>
<param name=”movie” value=”https://www.youtube.com/v/uIX7gGW79Bw&hl=en”></param&gt;
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param></object></p>

So all I get is a red X. How can I get it to work – to not erase the embed part? Thr video works on my TapestryCrochet.com page, also hosted by BlueHost, but won’t save correctly on my WordPress TapestryCrochet.com/blog/ web page.

HELP!!!

I can get the video to work for a minute or two, but if I edit any of the blog text and resave it, the essential part of the code dissapears again!

Wow. whooami is quite a douchebag. For someone who’s always right, too bad his code doesn’t work.

@ toastie, perhaps he may be rude, however, he is taking the time to try and help out, so you gotta be thankful to have atleast one person respond… (calling them a douchebag isnt very mature, now is it?).