I use the WP-FLV plugin to embed Flash video on my site (http://www.davidhowellstudios.com). It makes it rather painless to say the least.
http://roel.meurders.nl/wordpress-plugins/wp-flv-video-player-plugin/ David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Show" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been playing around trying to embed flash video on my web page, so, > visitors could just click on that and play it (as an alternative to my > feed). > > I created a flv file, and used dreamweaver 8 to embed it in a web page, and > it seems to work on a test page I created (though it takes some time to > load) > > http://www.richardshow.com/flash_test.html > > I tried lifting the code that dreamweaver generated and put it in a word > press post, but the page did not show anything. > > The code I used looked like this > > <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"; > width="342" height="291" id="FLVPlayer"> > <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" /> > <param name="salign" value="lt" /> > <param name="quality" value="high" /> > <param name="scale" value="noscale" /> > <param name="FlashVars" > value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Halo_Skin_3&streamName= > http://richard.blip.tv/file/get/Richard-RichardsWifesBirthdayWMV360&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"; > /> > <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" > flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Halo_Skin_3&streamName= > http://richard.blip.tv/file/get/Richard-RichardsWifesBirthdayWMV360&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"; > quality="high" scale="noscale" width="342" height="291" name="FLVPlayer" > salign="LT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage=" > http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"; /> > </object> > > Also, I moved two .swf files that dreamweaver generated to the same root > directory of the site, which is where I think the wordpress pages/posts go. > > These were > > FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf > > and > > Halo_Skin_3.swf > > (I guess I should note that dreamweaver also generated some java script in > the header and something inside the body tag which is onLoad, but I'm pretty > sure that had to do with checking to see if the right player was available - > I tried adding that to the main index page template too and that didn't seem > to change anything, though I didn't think it would ... but FYI ... you can > see all this in the source of the file that dreamwever generated that works > flash-test.html) > > ... any ideas on what I did wrong would be appreciated ... thanks! > > ... Richard > > > -- > Richard > http://www.richardshow.com > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
