By itowler on

I have a single video that I would like to embed in a blog posting, but I can not seem to get it to work right. The video is not from youtube, or any of the other "common" video providers, so I have not really been able to find a method to get the video to embed into my blog post.

The video is here:

http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0209/592620_video.html?ref=newsstory

and it has an "embed" tag so that you can cut and paste into your own site.... but I can not seem to make it work.

could it be the FCKEditor?

ian

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itsallhell’s picture

itsallhell commented

With "Full HTML" you should be able to add it.

itowler’s picture

itowler commented

Even with Full html, I could not get it to display. Instead, all i get is the "code"
<object id='VideoPlayback' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' height='280' width='320'> <param value='http://cfc.wset.com/mediaplayer.swf' name='movie' /> <param value='always' name='allowScriptAcess' /> <param value='transparent' name='wmode' /> <param value='best' name='quality' /> <param value='#000000' name='bgcolor' /> <param value='noScale' name='scale' /> <param value='TL' name='salign' /> <param value='file=http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0209/592620.xml' name='FlashVars' /></object>

displayed...no video...just the text

any other ideas?

kotul’s picture

kotul commented

and if youre using a wysiwyg make sure to click on the "HTML" or "code" button and put the code in there

itowler’s picture

itowler commented

I am using FCKeditor, but still no luck.

If I add the embed "code" to the article using the "source" button in FCKeditor, I get a square where the video should be, but still no video....

Thanks for helping, any other ideas?

ian

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itowler commented

You can see what I am talking about here:

http://www.itowler.com/node/51

The box shows up but no video....

itowler’s picture

itowler commented

So just to try and see what is going on, I posted a youtube video in there and it worked just fine. Not sure what is driving the other video to not work.

any ideas?

itsallhell’s picture

itsallhell commented

I don't know whether the website will mind it or not but the .xml file has a link to the original .flv file. Try loading that file and see if it works.

itowler’s picture

itowler commented

I ended up downloading the file and using shadowbox to display it... not the best solution. but it will work.

kotul’s picture

kotul commented

maybe if you modify the embed code from the news website so that it looks the same as the youtube link?