Comments on: Embedding Videos Directly Into Your Blog Posts

By: Uploading Videos | Holden's Hat

Uploading Videos | Holden's Hat — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:50:54 +0000

[...] are attempting to upload their presentations for tomorrow and Tuesday’s class, check out this helpful post from the Edublogger. Sue Waters explains how to upload videos directly to your blog, so that you do not have to use a [...]

By: Starting your own blog | Music Solo Performance at Braemar

Starting your own blog | Music Solo Performance at Braemar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:58:21 +0000

[...] you have chosen or concerts you may have seen. One of your posts will include an uploaded audio or video recording of you performing one of your chosen pieces of repertoire in part or its’ [...]

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:15:01 +0000

@Chris, You need to follow the instructions on this page especially step 7 and 8.

By: cmiraglia

cmiraglia — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:09:56 +0000

I have successfully uploaded videos to my teacher blog until today. No matter how I try to upload either using browser uploader or flash uploader the file is shown once uploaded but when inserted, it does not create a link. I am trying to upload a 4.9 mb video podcast file which is a mov. (quicktime)

Thanks,

Chris

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:32:08 +0000

At the moment no. Your best solution is exactly as you are doing. I’m hoping when we upgrade to the latest version of WordPress MU this will be different. However I won’t know until the upgrade happens. When is it planned for? Not sure – sorry

By: Mr. Salsich

Mr. Salsich — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:27:53 +0000

Are there any plans to have an Edublogs video player, similar to the Wordpress video player? The problem I have with uploading videos from my computer as a link is that it stays in whatever format you uploaded. So, if my students’ parents use a mac and my link is a .wmv, they will not be able to open it without some effort. Or vice versa. For example, your link above wouldn’t open on my mac without me first saving it to the computer and then finding an application to open it.

With video players (like Wordpress video player), the video is rendered compatible when you upload it. It’s also nice not to have to link to another page. I’ve been working around this by uploading my videos to edublogs.tv and then embedding the video into my post. Is there a plugin I could use to post videos directly into my blog, like Wordpress video player?

By: Help! Missing Flash and Embed Media Buttons | The Edublogger

Help! Missing Flash and Embed Media Buttons | The Edublogger — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:25:26 +0000

[...] this post to learn how to Embed Videos Directly Into Your Blog Posts (you can also upload audio files using the same [...]

By: mannardi

mannardi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:36:37 +0000

Thanks Sue. I’ll give that a go. I managed to upload a video with an image embedded into my blog using photobucket, but I’m not sure how I’ll go getting into it at school. So if that doesn’t work I’ll switch it over to edublogs.tv. Thanks for the quick response, I was really beginning to tear my hear out. Cheers.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:52:31 +0000

@Sue Mac I meant to replied to your question by email but now aren’t sure if I did. Read my response to Mannardi below because it is similar.

@mannardi When I originally wrote this post Edublogs was using a different version on Wordpress and it used a different method of playing the videos – so they did play embedded within your post. Now it works by downloading the videos into your media player e.g. windows media player. Which is good for video podcasting but maybe not what you want for online viewing.

A better option may be to upload your video to Edublogs.TV and then use the embed code to embed into a blog post.

By: mannardi

mannardi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:13:00 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the great instructions, you got me a couple of steps further. I ran my webcam recorded video through movie maker to reduce the size and I’ve now got it in my gallery and posted the link to my blog, then when I try to play it I get the following error:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because a network error occurred. The server might not be available. Verify that you are connected to the network and that your proxy settings are correct.
I get the same message when I try to play your video on this post.

The other thing I’m wondering is if it’s possible to embed not only the link but a visual of the opening frame of the video onto the blog page, I’ve been able to do this in blogspot, but not sure how on edublogs.
Thanks!