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jackiejart May 13, 2009 03:24 PM

[SOLVED] Embedding Video
 
I am having a problem embedding my you tube video. I follow the directions and made a page with the following

[youtube]dMM5vHJW[/youtube]

The video does not appear.

Any suggestions about this problem. When I embed the URL, with a title WATCH, the word WATCH appears and then I can click and get the video.

Flynn May 13, 2009 07:56 PM

I haven't tried lately but I know I was able to insert a Youtube video with such a short code or template tag before, inside a post. Make sure you followed the plugin instructions, i.e. did you insert the code through the WP editor, as you should, in HTML mode?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

jackiejart May 14, 2009 11:28 PM

Embed Video
 
You ask i.e. did you insert the code through the WP editor?
I inserted the code in the page I wanted it to appear in. Since I'm really new at this, what is the WP editor.

I guess my problem may be that I inserted it in the wrong place.

This is what I inserted. [youtube]dMM5vHJW[/youtube] Is this correct, and where should I put it?

Thanks so much for your help.

evripidis May 21, 2009 06:06 PM

If you like, you can use the plugin Smart Youtube. To use the video in your posts, paste YouTube video URL with httpv:// (notice the 'v').

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg

jackiejart May 21, 2009 09:47 PM

Did not work
 
I tried your suggestion. I installed Smart You Tube plugin. Then typed into post httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMM5vHJW and it did not work. Any other suggestions.

juggledad May 24, 2009 06:18 AM

I couldn't get it to work with the shortcode and if you look at the wordpress support forums, it seems there is a problem. I was able to go to the youtube page for the video I wanted and copy the code from the 'Embed' and insert it into my post USING THE HTML editor (top right side of post test - two tabs: 'Visual' and 'HTML') and it works fine, This is the code:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ji5_MqicxSo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ji5_MqicxSo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

jackiejart Jun 4, 2009 03:39 PM

Flynn Thank you for your help. I finally got it to work. There was something wrong with my original post. When I deleted it, everything works now. Thanks again. Jackie

redblanchard Jun 30, 2009 04:33 PM

I am trying to embed a video in my own web site using the following "redirector" to a "WVX" file containing the embedding command, but all I get is a message that the "Play list is not available."
Can you analyse this and tell me where I went wrong? Thanks
(Here is the link to Blind Kid2.wvx:)
<a href=Blind Kid2.wvx>Click Here to Watch the Blind Kid</a>


(Then this is the "blind Kid2.wvx") (Text version shown here)
<!-- begin embedded WindowsMedia file... -->
<table border='0' cellpadding='0' align="center">
<tr><td>
<OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="720" height="450"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>
<param name='fileName' value="Blind Kid Piano.wmv">
<param name='animationatStart' value='true'>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='false'>
<param name='autoStart' value="true">
<param name='showControls' value="true">
<param name='loop' value="false">
<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'
pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1' width="720" height="450"
src="Blind Kid Piano.wmv" autostart="true" designtimesp='5311' loop="false">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</td></tr>

Flynn Jun 30, 2009 06:44 PM

Blind Kid Piano.wmv

Use a file name without spaces

redblanchard Jul 6, 2009 05:53 PM

Thanks but when I took out spaces, no difference. In fact I believe as long as you are consistent with case size and spacing, it works anyway. But this time I changed it and still got that mysterioous message about the "Unavailable Play List," whatever that means.

juggledad Jul 7, 2009 08:44 AM

Did you take out the spaces from the actual file (ie the the file is stored somewhere, did yoiu change the file so that it is now 'BlindKidPiano.wmv') in addition to the code below?

redblanchard Jul 8, 2009 11:38 AM

Yes I went through the entire sequence of events,
and made all the file names identical (they were before, with the spaces) and everything still works the same. I get that mysterious message about
"playlist unavailable, or words to that effect."
Does anyone have an examples of a WVX file to embed a video? The Embed files I have tried work fine directly, but not with "redirect" pointers.

Ty_ Nov 17, 2009 04:52 AM

Hi,

When I try to paste YouTube embed code into my posts or pages, the code vanishes as soon as I click Publish or Save Draft. I can embed YouTube into my WP sites with other themes without a problem, but my sites using Atahualpa won't allow it.

I've also tried adding the code exactly below in the HTML view without any success.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by juggledad (Post 7111)
I couldn't get it to work with the shortcode and if you look at the wordpress support forums, it seems there is a problem. I was able to go to the youtube page for the video I wanted and copy the code from the 'Embed' and insert it into my post USING THE HTML editor (top right side of post test - two tabs: 'Visual' and 'HTML') and it works fine, This is the code:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ji5_MqicxSo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ji5_MqicxSo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>


juggledad Nov 17, 2009 05:56 AM

what is the url of the page?
Have you looked at the generated source to see if the html is there or are you saying that when you add the code to a post and publish it, it vanishes from the post itself?

If this is the case, try deactivating all your plugins to see if there is a conflict.

Ty_ Nov 17, 2009 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juggledad (Post 19103)
what is the url of the page?
Have you looked at the generated source to see if the html is there or are you saying that when you add the code to a post and publish it, it vanishes from the post itself?

If this is the case, try deactivating all your plugins to see if there is a conflict.

The latter. The code vanishes from the post itself.

Ah, I've tried disabling all plugins and it still happens, but checking now it's happening with all themes on this particular installation, but not on other installations with a different version (where I'm not using Atahualpa). It's a Wordpress Mu install and I've just upgraded it, so I think we've found a bug!

Thanks very much for your help.

Ty


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