Adding videos to a blog

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  julianonsea · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 4:15 pm

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  Hi
  I’ve just started my blog with wordpress.com and have a couple of questions about adding video footage to a post. Sorry if this has come up before but I have been unable to find what I need.

  1) I have tried to insert a youtube video into my post Bufones following the instructions given in the FAQ on posting You tube videos. This has resulted in the Url being pasted into the post in text format, but not as shown in the illustration in the How to.

  2) I’m interested in a Space Upgrade because I think this would allow me to upload videos directly from my PC. How long afetr uploading does it take till it can be viewed by others? On Youtube it takes about 6 hours or longer. I’m running a workshop for teachers on using video and would like them to be able to upload short videos, comment on them in WordPress and for others to review them within the same day, is this possible or is this madness?

  Thanks

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Sep 25, 2008 at 4:51 pm

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  1) Were you following the instructions from http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/ ? Do you have a link to an example post where this didn’t work?

  2) Unfortunately there isn’t a way to provide a clear answer to this. It depends on how busy the servers are, how large the video is, and how many other videos are in the queue ahead of your video. The videos need to be converted before they are available to be viewed.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 4:53 pm

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  With the space upgrade, the videos are available immediately.

  This is a screencast on adding youtube videos to your posts: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/

  This is about the space upgrade: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/about-the-space-upgrade/

  This is about what file types can be uploaded: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/what-filetypes-can-i-upload/

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:13 pm

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  @thesacredpath,
  Actually they aren’t available immediately. Some might be if it’s a quick conversion of the video, but most will have at least some delay.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:15 pm

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  Hmmm, thanks for clarifying that. I didn’t know there was any conversion to be done.

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:19 pm

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  Yep, our video player actually uses a FLV file. After uploading a video, we convert it to some different versions/formats of FLV.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:20 pm

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  If you upload an FLV file, will that reduce the wait time for conversion?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:22 pm

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  By the way – I’ve been in contact with staff on the issue of endless “crunching” which is what I experience when uploading a video. That’s why I’m wondering about the conversion time.

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:24 pm

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  FLV isn’t one of the allowed file types.

  What filetypes can I upload?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 5:44 pm

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  Ah yes. I remember that now.

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  julianonsea · Member · Sep 26, 2008 at 8:02 am

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  Thanks for the advice about the space upgrader, think I may try it out.

  Below is a link to my Bufones post, I’ve used the add video button and pasted the youtube Url into the box provided and pressed insert into post. The Url text then appears on my post but the youtube video does not appear.

  http://julianonsea.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=3

  Thanks again for your help

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 26, 2008 at 3:00 pm

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  julianonsea – we cannot look at a post that you have not published. But the instructions for YouTube are pretty simple. You just use [youtube urlofvideo]

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  julianonsea · Member · Sep 26, 2008 at 4:20 pm

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  Think I may have been confused by the fact the video doesn’t show up on the editing page but have just viewed my post whilst being signed out and the you tube video is there, working fine.

  Thanks for all your advice