Paul Jacobson

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Options for sharing video outside YouTube and Vimeo

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I uploaded a video as part of a short post earlier this week and I noticed that it didn’t display particularly well in the post. I could have shared to YouTube first and embedded the video but thought I’d see what a direct upload would do. Turns out, not much. 

Surely it is possible to embed videos like you can images and have them render as playable videos in blog posts? Doesn’t HTML 5 have a video tag that works in all the major browsers?

WordPress has its VideoPress player but it’s a paid feature. Shouldn’t this capability be more freely accessible? What are the options?

3 responses

  1. Nathan Jeffery avatar
    Nathan Jeffery

    You should be able to use the HTML5 video tag: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp

    Or you could look for a plugin but as you know, I’d recommend keeping plugins to a minimum. 🙂

    Reply
    1. Paul avatar
      Paul

      I’ll mess around with the tag sometime and see how it works out. Thanks for the reminder.

      Reply
      1. Nathan Jeffery avatar
        Nathan Jeffery

        Anytime, hope it works. 🙂

        Reply

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