Adding Webcam video to blog

  • Unknown's avatar

    Every article I found on adding a video from a webcam to a wordpress.com blog is from 2008. Is it even possible using the base wordpress.com functionality or is some sort of plug-in needed?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar

    On WordPress.COM, you would need to pay for a video upgrade or upload your video and embed it with a shortcode:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/

    Also, you may not realize it, but there are two very different and separate kinds of WordPress.
wp.COM is a multi-user platform with free hosting
wp.ORG is software for self-hosted blogs
    So, the forum where you can find assistance would be:
http://wordpress.org/support/
    The differences in more detail:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  • Unknown's avatar

    Maybe I need to be more clear. I realize that I have a .com blog, and I’m trying to see if you can embed a streaming webcam into a post. There appear to be plenty of tools to do that if you self-host, but as I’m using the free .com blog, I was trying to see if it was possible to do this. I didn’t think the video upgrade would help since I really don’t want to upload my own videos (I do that currently using YouTube and link into my blog), but rather stream live video from a web cam.

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