sbartone
Forum Replies Created
-
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Upload Democracy Now videos to WordPressThe above method is not absolutely foolproof. Sometimes DN does not divide full stream of the show into separate videos, each with their own mp4 URL. If this is the case, you will find an URL with ‘.mp4?start=000.0end=000.0, which, if you copy and paste into the Text content area of WordPress will not convert to streaming video. If you copy just the .mp4 version, it will start at the beginning of the show. I have not found a workaround for this situation, except to tell readers at what minute the video story starts.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Upload Democracy Now videos to WordPressUPDATE: You an actually get the .mp4 video on the standard Democracy Now website, without having to go through the process of opening the video in its own window. It’s just a bit harder to find the code.
Use Firefox.
1. Go to the URL for the DN video.
2. Under Firefox “Tools”, go to Web Developer; choose “Console”
3. The Console window will open below the video frame
4. In the ‘Console’ window, choose the ‘Console’ tab (if not already there)
5. Find the http URL code in the line: Specified “type” attribute of “video/mp4”. . . Load of media resource http. . . .
example: (without tilde)
~http://dncdn.dvlabs.com/flash/wx2014-0204_Keystonexl-protest-v2.mp4
Notice that this URL is a direct link to the flash video in DN’s database and ends in the file extension .mp4
6. Copy the .mp4 URL
7. Open a New Post in WP, click on the Text tab and go into the Text content area
8. Paste the http. . . mp4 URL in the content area on its own line
9 .Click ‘Post’ or ‘Update’ and your DN video is UPLOADED!