embed podtech video

  • bluecorn

    (@bluecorn)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    Does anyone know how to embed a PodTech video in a self-hosted WP? PodTech videos will generate code to drop into wordpress.com, hosted blogs. But this code doesn’t work in my self-hosted version. It just appears as ascii text.

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  • Thread Starter bluecorn

    (@bluecorn)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    more information on this – apologies if this doesn’t format well. I want to embed this video:
    http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1592/talking-with-long-time-ibmer#

    the video generates the following code for wordpress.com:

    [podtech content=http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/08/PID_012118/Podtech_AlwaysOn_Irving_IBM.flv&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/home/3783/talking-with-long-time-ibmer &totalTime=1315000&breadcrumb=4aba1fdc769e4326a20e526caf1fdcda]

    with the brackets and the space inline. This appears as simple text.

    How to tweak this code to comply with WP?

    mbaze

    (@mbaze)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Here’s what I’ve found when trying to embed uncommon video types (such as Brightcove and PodTech) on WordPress blogs. The TinyMCE visual editor tool in WordPress is the problem. It will often strip out or corrupt the player code when you go to save the blog post. The solution is to turn off the visual editor (in your account settings) when embedding video. Also, do not let anyone come back later and open up the blog post with the visual editor on; it’ll screw up the video code as well. That’s been my experience, anyway.

    Thread Starter bluecorn

    (@bluecorn)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Oh, hi mbaze, you commented over at jeremiah’s site, I’m Ross as I guess you figured. I just answered over there,and I’m adding full code details here now.

    First, I agree tinyMCE is really a huge detriment to WP. But in this case it’s not at fault. It wasn’t altering the code earlier, and now I have it turned off to be sure. I’ve tried some things.

    I had to mess with this when YouTube pulled that new “related videos” feature that everybody had to scramble to disable. I ended up just using a simple <embed> tag with the URL in, and it worked.

    I tried the same here.

    PodTech generates embedding code for wordpress.com hosted blogs, using a long URL surrounded by [square brackets], which I believe the wordpress.com platform recognizes. Not the same for the stand-alone versions however.

    When I change to regular angle brackets, and throw in a width and height, I can get the layout, and the browser calls to PodTech, but nothing loads. There’s something in the actual URL that PodTech is supplying that doesn’t quite work in this situation, I believe.

    PodTech supplies:

    [podtech content=http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/08/PID_012118/Podtech_AlwaysOn_Irving_IBM.flv&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/home/3783/talking-with-long-time-ibmer &totalTime=1315000&breadcrumb=4aba1fdc769e4326a20e526caf1fdcda]

    I change it to this:

    <embed src="http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/08/PID_012118/Podtech_AlwaysOn_Irving_IBM.flv&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/home/3783/talking-with-long-time-ibmer&totalTime=1315000&breadcrumb=4aba1fdc769e4326a20e526caf1fdcda" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="240" width="320">

    I’ve tried some variations on that long URL, stripping it shorter. And I’m putting it in a div, but with no other code. I’ve also tried this on two different installs of WP, on different servers. Each time I get the layout space with nothing in it, and the browser makes the call to PodTech, but nothing loads.

    btw the PodTech end of this conversation is here:
    http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/08/10/customer-support-nears-real-time/

    any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

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