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  • The other day on BoingBoing they embed the youtube video into the RSS feed. You could play the video right from the news reader. Does anyone know how this can be done?

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  • If your feed is set to display full text (Options > Reading, Syndication Feeds), the embed code (along with any other HTML) should appear as part of your feed. Then if your syndication reader supports it…

    Thread Starter daddyo

    (@daddyo)

    My feed is set to full text. Of all the blogs that I read, and many have featured youtube videos, this is the first time I actually saw a video in a news reader (bloglines) published using feedburner. When you go to the actual boingboing post the video is not present on the permalink page but is present in the feed.I would love to know how that was done.

    daddyo, I would be curious to see an example of a site using full feeds, with a similar file embedded that does NOT show up on feedburner. My own experience is the same as Kaf’s.

    I use feedburner myself, and when I had full feeds, all of the media, regardless of type, within a post showed up.

    I’m with you daddyo. I can’t get videos to show up in my WordPress or Feedburner feeds either. I’m viewing the feeds with Google Reader and Thunderbird.

    I noticed that Boing Boing started posting pictures of the YouTube player that link to the page on January 13.

    norwat

    (@norwat)

    I can’t get them to show up either … and non of the replies above help!! I’ve tried three plug-ins: cool-player, anarchy media player, viper’s video quicktags. The video appears fine on my web page, but not on my feed (in bloglines or the google reader).

    HELP!!!
    HELP!!!
    HELP!!!

    I get feeds from YouTube that has the video embedded … so I know there is a way to do this. Just looking for a full and helpful description. Surely someone has done this successfully, and can offer their advice?

    the video appears fine on my web page, but not on my feed (in bloglines or the google reader).

    This also happens to me, I don´t know where is the problem

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    There’s no magic trick to it. If the video shows up in your webpage, and you have Full Text set on the feed options, and your feedreader supports it, then the video will show there too.

    Now, if you’re running something like PodPress or any other feed-altering plugins or what have you, then all bets are off. But WordPress does not futz around with the feed by default if you have it set to “full text”.

    I don’t know what to do, I have deactivated all plugins, I use feedburner and google reader, but it does’nt work, I have returned to install wordpress in a new domain and happens the same…

    I’m on the list of videos not showing up in my feed either. I have the feed set to full post too. Shows up fine on the site. Just a link on the feed.

    There’s no magic trick to it. If the video shows up in your webpage, and you have Full Text set on the feed options, and your feedreader supports it, then the video will show there too.

    Not so.

    -The video appears in my post (http://zacheverson.com/2007/05/15/improve-your-grammar-while-you-watch-tv-and-eat-your-cereal/).

    -Options > Reading > Full text is selected

    -I checked the feed on Newsgator and Google Reader. The video does not appear.

    I checked with a rep at Feedburner too and got this response:

    The youtube image should appear in the feed like any other image, but it appears your original feed (before it gets to FeedBurner) does not contain the image in that is in the post, just the link. You’ll have to check that out with support at wordpress.org to see how to make sure your content also shows up in your feed. For one thing, make sure you don’t have summary mode on under the options tab in the wp admin interface.

    I came to this thread on Google while searching for this exact problem. YouTube videos aren’t displayed in my feedburner feed, but I have found other sites where it has…

    Well it would seem that certain readers show it and some don’t. A little strange.

    i figured it out. DO NOT use plugins like “viper’s video quicktags” insert the html code provided on the site instead.

    i figured it out. DO NOT use plugins like “viper’s video quicktags” insert the html code provided on the site instead.

    Yes, except I don’t use the plugin because I want to; I use it because I have to. As described in this thread

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/81416?replies=8

    unless I use the plugin YouTube videos, YouTube videos won’t display when my site is viewed through Firefox. So, unfortunately, my options are

    • have the video appear when viewed through all browsers on my site, but not appear in the RSS feed
    • have the video appear in my RSS feed, but not when someone views my site through Firefox

    Ideally I should be able to have it both ways.

    Z_Everson,

    I assure you that that’s crap.. that bit about not being able to see youtube videos on your site in Firefox unless you use a plugin.

    I do NOT use any plugins to display any flash videos and have NO issues with any browsers.

    your issue stems from not using proper markup.

    if you need proof:

    http://www.village-idiot.org/search/youtube

    In fact, here is a fresh 2.2 install with an embedded youtube vidoe:

    http://bigbox.village-idiot.org/archives/8

    ALL of those videos were added manually — no plugins whatsoever and they all display perfectly.

    It’s a simple matter of NOT using the visual editor, and providing the proper markup:

    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/f2XQ97XHjVw" height="329" width="400">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f2XQ97XHjVw"></param>
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object>
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