embedding video’s won’t work, why?

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    perld · Member ·

    hi there,
    I am trying to embed a video which can be found at FORA.tv (link: http://fora.tv/2008/02/12/Radical_Islam_in_Europe_UK_and_Germany). the video offeres a code for embedding it in blogs, etc. i know it works b/c I have recently embedded it in another blog. However, it won’t work at wordpress.com which is iritating. I would appreciate some help.
    The code I am trying to use is

    <object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0″ width=”400″ height=”264″ ><param name=”flashvars” value=”webhost=fora.tv&clipid=2665&cliptype=clip” /><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://fora.tv/embedded_player” /><embed flashvars=”webhost=fora.tv&clipid=2665&cliptype=clip” src=”http://fora.tv/embedded_player” width=”400″ height=”264″ allowScriptAccess=”always” allowFullScreen=”true” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”></embed></object>

    Why wouldn’t it work at wordpress.com? Is there any way I will be able to embed this video in my posts?
    Hope to hear from you soon.

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    See here:

    The gigya shortcode 1 – inserting videos

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    For future reference, for security reasons MOST external videos and embeds won’t work here. You have to use the above workaround or put them in your Vodpod account and use the Post To WordPress.com feature.

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    perld · Member ·

    sorry, i forgot to mention that i am refering to this post http://ctinbrd.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/radical-islam-in-europe-uk-and-germany in this blog http://ctinbrd.wordpress.com/

    after i copy-pasted the code i mentioned earlier into the html-feeld, and switch back from html-mode to visual-mode I can in fact see the flash window appearing in visual mode. However, when I update/save the post the embedded video won’t show up. If I do edit the post again I figuered that the code was not even saved. What could be the reason for this??? Please help.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Please see the two replies above yours.

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    perld · Member ·

    thanks, that absolutly helped :)

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