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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.
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"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?
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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?
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Sorry, I was traveling there for a few days... To answer yoru questions...
"'what' are you trying to embed?? is it a url? an object? an embed? an iframe?" My apologies, I thought I was answering that. When I was saying that I was trying to embed an Mp4 I meant a link to an MP4, in other words just a simple video that is hosted on Amazon S3.
Re: "Why not just paste the URL to this video here so we can try it out?" The videos I want to host are part of a paid membership site so I can't publish them publicly. But here is an example of the kind of video. Same format, same compression, hosted in the same place: http://evp-4ded433c38a60-bd5e9.....ffer-1.mp4
Any ideas as to how I can host a video like this directly within a forum post?
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I have not investigated this at all but is the Amazon S3 service going to actually allow you to embed videos in applications like Forums? In other words - are they actually going to allow you to stream content from the storage? And if so - do you have details on that please?
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Hi, yes, AmazonS3 is essentially just a cloud based server. I have hundreds of videos hosted there that I have embedded in many different players. I've never had any problem embedding a video until now. AS3 is a very popular file hosting service for podcasters and people who need to publish a lot of videos, because its quite cheap as compared to traditional hosting and doesn't tie up your site's bandwidth. It's owned by Amazon and is very robust. If a video hosted on my own server will embed then one hosted on Amazon should as well.
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OK. I was under the impression that to enable you to stream from S3 you might need to use login credentials etc. If that s not the case - and we are looking at pretty standard YouTube streaming then I will keep researching.
So how do you embed these videos in your WP blog posts?
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I have embedded videos like that with Easy Video Player as well as a simple word press plugin. I think it was called wp embed. EVP is mobile friendly but the wordpress plugin I used was not. I have also used the video embed option in the WP theme Optimize Press. I think they use JW player. I've never really had any issues with anything that had an embed option using an MP4 hosted on AS3. This is the first time.
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