a plugin like
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
works great
other videos work directly because of oembed, but for self hosted stuff you need some sort of player
looking at the product description, it looks like VVQ is meant for embedding video from other sites, not posting your own uploads. is this impression incorrect?
I believe you can probably paste the url to a video located on your on site at the url prompt, and that should work as well – as long as your video type is supported by the player.
thanks for your feedback.
how do i know what video is supported by the player? is this player built in to wordpress 3.0? i am trying to play a .m4v file… i believe this is quicktime?
i currently have this html in my post:
<object style=”width: 100px; height: 100px;” classid=”clsid:02bf25d5-8c17-4b23-bc80-d3488abddc6b” width=”100″ height=”100″ codebase=”http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0″><param name=”enablejavascript” value=”true” /><param name=”src” value=”ZBlog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12″ /><embed style=”width: 100px; height: 100px;” type=”video/quicktime” width=”100″ height=”100″ src=”ZBlog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12″ enablejavascript=”true”></embed></object>
but all i get is the Quicktime symbol in my preview.
nick
how do i know what video is supported by the player?
You will want to read the plugin documentation.
is this player built in to wordpress 3.0?
No, it’s a plugin.
i am trying to play a .m4v file… i believe this is quicktime?
I believe .M4V is an iTunes video format. (mp4?) Why quicktime won’t play it is beyond me. My guess looking at your code would be that you are only pointing to the directory as your source and not including the file name and extension.
ZBlog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/name_of_movie.m4v ?
But that’s just a guess.
As Rev. Voodoo mentioned previousy, “as other videos work directly because of oembed, but for self hosted stuff you need some sort of player”
In this case, you may have to convert .m4v to a format compatible with one of those players, if manually embedding won’t work for you.
After much trial and error, I have figured it out via the Viper Video plugin. I’m still a bit confused as to how I achieved the result, but I think I could do it again. Thanks for the help, you two.
http://zionadventures.com/ZBlog/
Nick