Embedding Videos

[The Lurker]

I think I've mastered embedding youtube videos, but when I try with video embed codes that aren't youtube related, they don't seem to work.  How can I get them to work?

[D.B. Barnes]

Some videos aren't supported by this forum's software. Stuff like Daily Motion, Colbert/Daily Show, most iFrame-based stuff (if there's not a workaround like the iFrame YouTube stuff) etc

It's a little hit and miss.

[Riffman for Hire]

I haven't tried other video sites like Vimeo, but I did manage to get embedding working for blip.tv .

Here's how.

Step 1: Copy the embed code from the page you want.  I'll use Nostalgia Critic's Total Recall review as a general example.

<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/gbk7g4CSegI.html?p=1" width="780" height="438" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#gbk7g4CSegI" style="display:none"></embed>

Step 2: Copy http://blip.tv/play/gbk7g4CSegI .  Omit the quotation marks, the last period and the html.

Step 3: Paste http://blip.tv/play/gbk7g4CSegI into this flash command: (flash=500,350])http://blip.tv/play/gbk7g4CSegI(/flash) .  Only replace the ( ) with [ ] marks.

Step 4:  It should work as shown below.  You can also change the window size by altering the numbers in the first flash tag.


http://blip.tv/play/gbk7g4CSegI


I haven't tried it with other video sites, though.  I'll have to experiment a bit.

[D.B. Barnes]

Yeah, most of the Half In the Bag stuff is blip and that's a relatively simple workaround. I've tried tinkering with other videos, but the code is such a mess, it's essentially copy, paste, hope, fail, try again, give up.

Although, this is a great spot to post workarounds that do work.

[Variety of Cells]

Hey, finally a proper place for me to ask this.  So I can embed youtube videos that have the "use old embed code" option.  But there are some videos out there that do not have this option.  How do I go about embedding those youtube videos?

[goflyblind]

Trailer (I couldn't embed it because it didn't offer the old embed code.)

all you have to do is take the video identifier, in this case Py_IndUbcxc and stick it after http://www.youtube.com/v/ in the flash tags thusly:

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[flash=400,300]http://www.youtube.com/v/Py_IndUbcxc[/flash]