Title: Video embed not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Video embed not working

 *  [elvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elvn/)
 * (@elvn)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-not-working/)
 * I have just setub a new blog with wordpress 2.9.2
    I have a weard problem with
   embedding videos. I did try Youtube and Vimeo. When I enter the html code in 
   the html-part of the new post editor the html is there, put when I click publish
   it dissapears. embedding videos the O-embed way still works fine. Am I doing 
   something wrong?

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 *  Thread Starter [elvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elvn/)
 * (@elvn)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-not-working/#post-1389344)
 * I did disable all the plugins and changed the theme back to default.
    But the
   problem is still there. So I tried some more. It seems the Admin has no problem
   including embeds in the html part of the post editor. But authors can’t add embeds?
   Is this normal or is it a bug?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-not-working/#post-1389345)
 * That’s normal as far I as I know. I have a vague recollection of embedding being
   limited to admins and editors because of the security implications.
 *  [spidermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spidermann/)
 * (@spidermann)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-not-working/#post-1389346)
 * I use the SmartYouTube plug-in to take care of YouTube video embeds. Works like
   a charm, as WordPress strips a lot of the code that YouTube gives for embedding
   videos.
 * As for other sites, no idea, as I generally don’t link from them.
 *  [jlevine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlevine/)
 * (@jlevine)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-not-working/#post-1389433)
 * I tried to embed a video from TED by copying the embed code from TED and pasting
   that into my blog post. The embed code showed up instead of the video.
 * I tried using the Add media file from URL function. The link to the video on 
   TED shows up, not the video.
 * I tried downloading the file from TED and uploading it into my post. The file
   is about 45MB. I tried this 3 times and got errors each time.
 * What should I do?

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 * [video](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/video/)

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 * Last reply from: [jlevine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlevine/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-embed-not-working/#post-1389433)
 * Status: not resolved

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