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Generating Thumbnails for video

I have checked and read lot of post about one single issue that is far more complicated than it seems. I have a website that uses a lot of videos taken from wwebsite as on the internet ^^ (services ...
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Setting a post's featured image from an embedded YouTube video

If I create a post that has an embedded YouTube video in it (so all I do is paste the YouTube URL into the post and let Wordpress automatically embed it for me), is there a way to have the thumbnail ...
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Replace audio/video enclosure with player?

Current state: I'm parsing XML feeds into the front end and/or the back end (Admin UI), but not into the DB. Inside those feeds i place mp3- and video content, currently only as plain text (no link, ...
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Set wmode attribute to transparent for the embed shortcode to make drop-down menu hover over YouTube embed in Internet Explorer

When you hover over my drop-down menu using IE8 or IE9, the menu div will display behind the YouTube embedment. It works fine on all other browsers. Upon research, I found out that many others have ...
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Implementing “Video of the Day” Feature?

I'd like to add a new area on a WordPress 3.0 site that contains a new video from YouTube each day. This video would be manually picked, and manually added each day. I'm not sure how to properly set ...
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1answer
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Make a video post redirect to next post after completion

I want to make video posts redirect to the next video post in it's category after it's over. I use both youtube videos and directly uploaded videos both of which I already know how to pull the ...
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4answers
679 views

Managing and Playing Large videos

I am implementing a blog to share courses, lectures, tutorials or talks. The video sizes might be bit a bit big - so i was wondering what is a good quality plugin for wordpress that would allow to ...
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Show Video in Excerpt

So I recently figured out how to change my blog page to display excerpts by changing the <?php the_content(); ?> to <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in my index.php file. I am using a custom child ...
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Do_Shortcode not working for Embed

I'm trying to use Custom Field types to embed Youtube videos in a more organized fashion and using the Do_Shortcode() would seem to work perfectly, however this: <?php echo ...
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Getting a thumbnail for an external video as the thumbnail for a custom post type?

I saw some other similar threads but they were all for YouTube videos. I was wondering if the same could be done for videos hosted on other servers like blip. Here is an example of a blip video: ...
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Should I use custom post types for a front page video feature (vimeo)?

I'd like to create a front page video feature that embeds a vimeo video of the users choosing. I'd like the user to only have to input the video code. For instance, for http://vimeo.com/24474320 - ...
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1answer
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Is there a built in function to see if a URLis oEmbed Compatible?

I want to be able to take a url and see if the domain is one of the ones Wordpress supports to add embeds via oEmbed. Is there a built in function that does this in WordPress or would I need to ...
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How to allow <video> html5 tag in Wordpress

Currently I am running a Wordpress MU blog using the Unfiltered MU plugin. However, when I try to insert an HTML5 tag, it gets stripped away. I believe it may be the WYSIWYG editor cleaning the ...
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How to generate video out of images via Wordpress plugin

I am working on Wordpress plugin which can generate video from sequence of images. I read here that we can use FFMpeg and Imagemagick (or imagick) to implement this trick. But, FFMpeg is hardly ...
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Adding Videos as post-thumbnails (no stills, just the player in a smaller size)

I’m using Excerpts with post-thumbnails on my startsite. Adding Images is working pretty fine. But how can I embed a video from vimeo or youtube as a post-thumbnail? Just the video in a smaller size, ...
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change video icons to selected thumbnail?

added custom fields for the media edit form so users can select a thumbnail for video. All that's working fine but how can i get the default video icon on this page and in the media library to use ...
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1answer
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Linking an image to open a youtube video in lightbox/fancybox in wordpress

Here is what i'm having problems with... I want to link a youtube video to start playing in a lightbox/fancybox when a person clicks an image. Kind of like this site has - http://www.adroll.com/ - if ...
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Viddler oEmbed not working with specified width

I'm working on a widget that embeds videos using oEmbed and I'm testing it out using the default providers in WordPress. So far, they are all working fine, except Viddler. The video is displayed, but ...
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Upload iPhone video clips to blog via native WP app

I'm using the WordPress iPhone app, and when I upload video clips to a blog they show up in some browsers and in others not. I'm using a HTML5 video markup as a container for the clips. While mpeg-4 ...
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1answer
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How to create thumbnails in wordpress with jwplayer

I can't seem to get a good answer on their site. What's the best way to create thumbnails for videos uploaded to my wordpress site? Users upload videos from the front end and I started doing this with ...
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1answer
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Client system for media review?

I'm looking for a plugin, or a system, for wordpress, that would allow a client to login and see the graphic designs, video, documents, etc... that i'm currently producing for them, and allow them to ...
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1answer
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Problem with JWplayer. Video is missing?

Firstly, I am new at using video with wordpress. I have installed the jwplayer plugin and using this bit of code to show the video player on the page. $video_array = explode("\r\n", ...
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2answers
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fetch images and videos

Is it possible to fetch videos and images of a particular website and put it into post? i mean i am thinking of writing a function, where i will just write the website name, and then with the help of ...
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Video playing from featured image?

If I embed a YouTube video into a post, how do I put a play button over the featured image so that the video can be played without having to open the whole post? I.e Flipboard the iOS app has a ...
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1answer
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Capture Webcam Video within Buddypress (and BuddyPress Media)

Has anyone had experience capturing video from a webcam and adding it to a users album inside of BuddyPress and BuddyPress Media? BuddyPress Media isn't necessary if there's a better solution BP ...
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YouTube Sidebar Widget - YouTube service unavailable

I'm using WordPress 3.5 and YouTube Sidebar Widget 1.3.2. The plugin display service is unavailable. Why have I encountered service unavailable? The YouTube video is set to be public and embeddable.
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Protecting HTML5 video

I shall explain my situation as best I can so you can see where i'm coming from. I'm working on a wordpress site for a sports team, there are loads of teams. We want to put coaching sessions on our ...
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How to embed .mp4 videos in a WordPress post?

I want to embed a video that was converted to mp4 from wmv, using ffmpeg. The video of course plays fine in VLC. However, it's being quite a pain to embed it in a WP post. I've tried using a variety ...
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2answers
992 views

How to embed local video in a wordpress post

How can I embed videos (wmv, mp4, mpg, flv) to my post from the local server. I am using WordPress 3.1.1 version. I have searched for wordpress plugins which supports this kind of feature but couldn't ...
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1answer
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How can I determine where I want to edit in the backend (server)

My boss has a wordpress site and he wants me to give him the ability to add videos from a site called vzaar. I see the form, I see the main PHP file for editing posts. Unfortunately I can't track the ...
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39 views

How to play a video without using plugin?

I want to play a video inside my site itself without using any plugins. How can I do that?
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1answer
383 views

how to add new .webm mime types in wordpress

i tried google but no success yet. I am trying to upload .webm and .ogg video types in wordpress ( for html5 video ofcourse) I am getting error like Baki fula.webm” has failed to upload due to an ...
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filter get_children to return all mime types EXCEPT 'x'

Like it says on the tin - Im trying to create a list of post attachments that includes everything except say audio, which I'll feed into a player instead. The filter needs to be generic: 'audio' ...
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how to import my youtube channel into wordpress?

i want to know,how to import my youtube channel into my wordpres website?please help me. Example: I have youtube channel with 7 video's(Link).i want to bring all the videos into my wordpress ...
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1answer
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videos not showing on my tag pages

i am using the Smart Youtube plugin for wordpress to show youtube videos. This works fine on my main site. But when i click on a view by a certain tags, none of the video show up in the blog ...
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1answer
157 views

Wordpress 3.1: Videoplayer implemented?

when using "insert video" from the post-editor - i'm only getting a normal hyperlink to the video - is it possible to display a flash-videoplayer instead? is there a default videoplayer in wordpress ...
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getting video dimensions

when attaching videos (eg. .flv) to a post - is it possible to query its dimensions? the problem is - i've got videos in 4:3 and 16:9 format and i need to get this information. any ideas? thanks
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displaying flv-video attachment in post

i've attached a local .flv video to my post (it was uploaded and is inside my mediapool). my question: how can i display it inside my post? (the video player) thanks
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1answer
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Is there a way to keep youtube videos from displaying on home page, and display only on single posts?

I have an interesting problem that requires a bit of creativity to solve. We have a website where we are creating a video narrative about our son who was born with Down syndrome. We do a daily post ...
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1answer
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Shortcode not displaying video as expected

I have written a short code to display a video off of amazon, and it works. However it is not being placed as expected on the page. I have put the shortcode after the <!--more--> tag but the ...
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1answer
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How to add a download link to a movie from WP media library?

All, I'm creating a custom theme for WP and it has some pages that play videos from WP media library with an HTML5 player. I wanted to also have a link next to the player to allow the users to ...
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3answers
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Displaying a video on the homepage via a custom field inside a php widget

I'm trying to get a video to display inside a widget which is called from a custom field inside a post. The code I am using is here: <?php ...
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1answer
394 views

Allow users to upload flash videos?

I would like to allow users to upload videos to their profiles. I'm using the couponpress theme for wordpress, which is a coupon listing theme. It lets users upload images for their coupons or ...
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VideoJS in a Widget?

I'm trying to get VideoJS plugin to work in a Widget. I tried to add a PHP widget and write, as it said in the manual: [video mp4="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4"] But it just shows ...
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3answers
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Escaping Quotes

For some reason when i try to put like a embeded video my video has slashes inside the code, but if I add it in the template itself then the code is fine i was told its "escaping quotes" anyhow this ...
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2answers
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Different size video display for category page (smaller) & detail page (larger)

I have a 'media' category page that pumps in videos / image galleries. I'm looking to have a smaller size video display (vimeo / youtube) on the category page, and the full size video on the single ...
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1answer
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How can i make like this structure?

Sorry, i'm newbie user Wordpress. Want a accordion list like this: News News 1 News 2 News 3 And when click a accordion item, get image/video slider. How can i make like this? Thank you Sample ...
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videopress videos are not displayed when loading the content with ajax in a lightbox

I'm using videopress and I'm adding the videos into posts with the videopress shortcode, and when I visit the post I can see the videos and play them, but the problem is when loading the post with ...
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wordpress video sharing clone script?

Is there any wordpress video sharing clone script like youtube? i have seen many, but they only allow the admin to upload videos, i want a script where users can register and upload their videos other ...
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1answer
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Video uploaded with the native media uploader gives Error 404

I created a shortcode to make an HTML5 player insert into my post, but my problem is when I attempt to view a video that I've uploaded with the native Media Uploader, I get a file not found error. The ...

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