upload them with the file uploader plugin for SP…  use the media uploader to embed them in posts…

These are all pretty big videos. I host them on AmazonS3. But I also need them to be mobile friendly for my paying members. That’s why I currently use Easy Video Player. 

Can I embed my existing videos hosted elsewhere? Will they be mobile friendly if I use the simple press embedder?

If not, is there a way to do what I am trying to do? I have a private and paid membership community and I offer regular videos. Currently I host the videos in wordpres pages but i would prefer to merge everything into my forum. How I might accomplish this?

Well, we have no limitations on size of upload… your php settings will, but you can make them quite big…

If the amazon s3 supports oembed, which I doubt, you could just paste in the url to the video…

what kind of embed code are you using?  as long as not an iframe, it should work…  but personally, still better to upload media via the file uploader…

Have you tried with the media button on the tinyMCE toolbar? That works for me if I want to embed an already local video or one of my own from a known location.

Weird, I just went to test it and I can’t find any media upload or embed options at all. Not sure when they were last there. I have both of those plugins mentioned above installed. What am I doing wrong? See attachment.

Ah – that’s not the toolbar we supply by default so – assuming you have not changed it I would assume you have some sort of WordPress TinyMCE extension plugin installed which – while intended for the back-end/write post use has been written in such a way that it shows up when tinyMCE is used on the front end as well.

So – would this be the case?

you could also check forum – components – tinymce editor and see if you have the media button in one of the two rows..

Hi,

I don’t have any editor related plugins installed, and I don’t see any related options under components. I have attached a screenshot of what options I see.

I know the media options used to be there but when I checked, per the instructions in this post, they were gone. I haven’t really done anything to the site in a while other than update everything. Any ideas?

imagemedia in your buttons should be image, media

Okay, weird, that fixed it and now I see the media buttons again. But I’ve never touched that page or any of the options. How could that have gotten messed up like that? Just curious really.

Regarding

“Have you tried with the media button on the tinyMCE toolbar? That works for me if I want to embed an already local video or one of my own from a known location.”

I tried clicking on the video icon and adding my code to “source” nothing displayed at all. Then I tried just adding the AmazonS3 video file and selected “video” from the drop down of options but that didn’t display anything either. Any other ideas as to how I can get my videos to display in the forum in a mobile friendly way while still keeping them hosted on Amazon’s c cloud?

what are you trying to embed?  by that, I mean what is the source code you are posting?

does amazon s3 support oembed?  which means you would just paste the url to the media in a post content…

I’m just trying to embed a simple mp4 video file that is hosted on my own server, in this case it’s Amazon S3. I don’t know if they support Oembed. I’m not too tech savvy and am not finding much documentation on that on the web.

What I’ve tried so far is clicking the add a video icon and then adding my Mp4 url to the field and selecting video from the drop down. I’ve also tried adding the embed code I can generate from EasyVideoPlayer (which is what I normally use on my wordpress pages and pasting that into the html field. Nothing is working.

I currently have a private membership site where I teach monthly lessons. But I also have a forum. The lessons are all hosted on wordpress pages but I felt like if I placed the lessons in the forum itself I would get more engagement with the forum, which will help retain membership. But unless I can embed the video players in the forum posts that won’t work. Any ideas?

sorry, I have a couple times ‘what’ are you trying to embed?? is it a url?  an object?  an embed?  an iframe?

What options in the dialog are you selecting?  maybe a screenshot of each tab in the popup…

oembed is the WordPress preferred method for media embedding… you just paste the url in a post – dont use the popup… worth a try, though no clue if Amazon supports the widely used method or not…

Can I add another question as well as the above. Why not just paste the URL to this video here so we can try it out?