When it comes to free video hosting, apparently YouTube isn’t the only kid on the block. Google Video support is here! You didn’t think we would deny you the pleasure of posting videos like this, did you?
This is the code that displays that video (spaces added to force word wrap):
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=
http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%
26secureurl%3DjQAAAI2D-oeokHvEtP4vUMF6XpEPkLnk1CzCPWh_ceWkgqteI
ts5AhlVKPfw7OTKxfMTnFueC7owITuZG8Bgbq4EjeChTgoTU__CTEDXJH_pKnb-
5HC2YGPArZRmloEk3bAoAvK5__9X1oW8dq0mZ-xFB1-6xdVitpR-FnidBC0Gpx0
gTQjijrq7vrNfCh-mkLIP2g%26sigh%3Dr8uwuHM27caxFbz2AvH3PHkAUpg%26
begin%3D0%26len%3D21366%26docid%3D3728266100951844857&thumbnail
Url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid
%3D7d3c304a1b09e543%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1
138895377%26sigh%3D7g3V08dj4BKPsDXSwXhOmNiY2fQ&playerId=3728266
100951844857&playerMode=embedded]
You’ll find that long URL in the HTML code provided by Google Video’s “Put on site” feature. To extract the URL, remove everything from <embed to src=" and everything after the next quotation mark (").
Sorry this is harder than the Youtube integration, but Google makes things a little tricky. Enjoy!
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By the way, this feature (and post) was brought to you by Andy. 🙂
Cool.
Wow, so cool, looking forward to more features. I really think WordPress.com rocks~
Thank you!!
Excellent! Thanks.
sweet
This is great! Now I can add even more hilarious videos to my site.
Rated EXCELLENT!
Very Good 😉
Awesome! WordPress.com rocks!
Nice. I get more and more impressed with WordPress everyday.
I have tried… but I do not succeed to make it to work 😦
But the code goes inserted in modality HTML?
Thanks.
I appreciate this feature, and thanks, WP..
but,..
I hope you introduce some more important features that may be helpful to a wider level of audience. Not all people like videos on their blogs. A more general feature would be nicer.
Anyways,
thanks a lot
Quite nice feature! 🙂
But where is this video from? Can you take any video, or do you have to take one from Google?
Thanks guys! That rocks!
jupp – great.
Thanks so much, great work!
Thanks so much Matt. I have been waiting for this.
brilliant
Amazing, thanks!
Wow, I did not expect yet another Video option. Great Job!
I notice a white box on the Google Video in this blog entry.
it’s good tag 🙂 google videos 🙂 nice feauture 🙂
How about http://dailymotion.com/ support, too? It’s a great service!
I am so glad I switched to WordPress.
Hi! I thought I’d commented this already, but it seems I haven’t. Could we please have support for http://dailymotion.com/ too? It’s a service similar to YouTube (and imho, nicer: no watermarking, less clutter).
Having the choice of Google Video is already great, but I’d really love Daily Motion support 🙂
If you support it I promise to do tons of video blogging 😀
just testing a little bit!
hey, all these hype and positive feedback seem so fake to me.
get real guys. blogger.com don’t even have all thesehassle of modifying HTML codes, and you guys applause when wordpress.com give you all these limitations?
seriously, get real.
Matt,
I don’t know if it’s google’s problem or mine, but I can’t get it to work. They player shows up, but no video. I think it’s a great feature, just spell it out for us noobs a little more.
😉
Thanks!
It would be cool if these sort of clever features were on the editor window, sort of like click here and it will ask you for the URL and then insert the code for you, just a reminder of the extra features that are available for new users who may not have spotted this news post and the previous YouTube one 🙂
Thanks! good job!
Everytime i try to post a google video the editor automatically links the url between [googlevideo= … ] … no matter how many times i tell it to unlink it… 😦
Um, It wont work for me :-(. I’m using a new template, maybe thats why.
wow it’s so cool
This is nice to support another video format, but when I tried to embed youtube.com videos in my posts, it made the loading of my blog really slow for me (and I am on DSL) — so I post links out to my videos.
Still waiting on my customizable header — is that so much to ask? All I wanna do is swap a picture for a boring plain solid color header.
Hahahahaha that gazella ran into a tree!!!!!!
But seriously… nice work guys cheers.
Pretty good.. Have you see http://www.golakes.co.uk/baarmysheep/
I just found out that I can add google videos! Cooool! Keep up the good work!
excellent! thanks so much and it made me laugh to!!!
hmmmmmmmm fabulous………..hahahah nice one…..its really made me laugh,
Sweet, thank you.
Works perfectly! 😀
Does anyone know how to change the size of the embedded video?
Thanks! I’ve been trying to figure this out all day!
The Google Video page doesn’t seem to have “Put on site” anymore, so I can’t get the long URL to put the video in. Anyone know where I can find it?
I agree with expresscheckout, I can’t find where in Google Video I can get that long URL. Any idea ? There is not a “Put on site” button anymore
Hi,
What about an [mp3:] syntax, that would insert an inline flash player like the one in Podpress: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ ?
regards,
pieterr
google has removes this feature?
It has changed but I think I figured it out!!! YAAH!
So you want to use the followings steps.
1) Change to the code view when posting a new message.
2) Type [googlevideo= in the code view.
3) In the Google video there is a button you can press the “Email-Blog-MySpace” button
4) It will expand into a new section
5) Beside the bolded “Send Link” click on the “Embed HTML” link — getting there!
6) Copy the entire text from the window that appears
7) As stated above just cut out the text between the quotations after the src= bit.
8) So if you had src=”http://video.google.com/somestuff”
9) You would end up with a link http://video.google.com/somestuff
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1741400817038199654&hl=en
10) Place this after the [googlevideo= bit and you’re done
11) Add an end brace –> ]
12) You’ll get [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/somestuff] (don’t forget the end brace.
Happy vidoeing!
Thank you Shane !