Help me post a video on Wordpress. Please!
August 5, 2007 7:44 PM
Help me post video on my Wordpress blog. Please!
I am trying to post video of my daughter on my Wordpress blog. I can encode to any format: swf, flv, wmv, whatever. I would like to use flv for security but am open to anything. Right now I have the video posted thru Vimeo, but I would rather host the file myself on my own server.
I have my own server, my own home-rolled WP installation and it seems every plugin I try, just flat does not work right. Is there an easy way to post any-and-or all of those formats without having to do a page of xml or html for every video?
I am trying to post video of my daughter on my Wordpress blog. I can encode to any format: swf, flv, wmv, whatever. I would like to use flv for security but am open to anything. Right now I have the video posted thru Vimeo, but I would rather host the file myself on my own server.
I have my own server, my own home-rolled WP installation and it seems every plugin I try, just flat does not work right. Is there an easy way to post any-and-or all of those formats without having to do a page of xml or html for every video?
Would this help?
Also, I've also done YouTube embeds with the help of this previous AskMe answer.
posted by mdonley at 8:06 PM on August 5, 2007
Also, I've also done YouTube embeds with the help of this previous AskMe answer.
posted by mdonley at 8:06 PM on August 5, 2007
Damiano99's plugin is not necessary for YouTube embeds in the current version of WordPress. You can just place the YouTube "embed" string within the <code> </code>brackets and you're all set. If you want to host your own videos, it's pretty much the same thing, only with a local URL . . . and with the cooperation of your web host. Some of them make it hard or impossible to host your own video content.
posted by gum at 9:35 PM on August 5, 2007
posted by gum at 9:35 PM on August 5, 2007
Amazon's S3 service for serving your data @~$.15/gb for the bandwidth (S3 Organizer FireFox plugin for ftp-like controls)--- For a widely used, and opensource embeddable flash media player, I really like this one by Jeroen Wijering.
posted by acro at 10:56 PM on August 5, 2007
posted by acro at 10:56 PM on August 5, 2007
I use the FLV Embed plugin, which makes it all super easy. It uses Jeroen Wijering's flash player, but I think they basically all do - it just does the job so nicely.
Simply upload your .FLV file to some known place on your server - or any server, it doesn't have to be the same one the rest of your site is hosted on. To use it you just put a really simple tag into your post:
[flv:url_to_video width height]
Or populated:
[flv:http://metafilter.com/jessaboobies.flv 320 240]
For videos I didn't make myself, but which I want to include in a post - let's say, like a Chimpanzee doing sit-ups with his bulldog personal trainer, on YouTube - I use the above mentioned Vipers Video Quicktags, which is also really good and easy to use.
posted by The Monkey at 6:47 AM on August 6, 2007
Simply upload your .FLV file to some known place on your server - or any server, it doesn't have to be the same one the rest of your site is hosted on. To use it you just put a really simple tag into your post:
[flv:url_to_video width height]
Or populated:
[flv:http://metafilter.com/jessaboobies.flv 320 240]
For videos I didn't make myself, but which I want to include in a post - let's say, like a Chimpanzee doing sit-ups with his bulldog personal trainer, on YouTube - I use the above mentioned Vipers Video Quicktags, which is also really good and easy to use.
posted by The Monkey at 6:47 AM on August 6, 2007
WordTube is the best video plugin I've found. Really really easy to use. Upload the video through its interface, put in the title, etc, and then automatically insert it into a post by entering [MEDIA=ID]. You can also make playlists of multiple videos.
Check the site, they've got examples.
posted by jeffxl at 7:57 AM on August 6, 2007
Check the site, they've got examples.
posted by jeffxl at 7:57 AM on August 6, 2007
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posted by damiano99 at 7:45 PM on August 5, 2007