video will not embed

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 5:11 am

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  I’m trying to embed a video as I’ve done a bazillion times but I just get the URL thread. What’s going on?

  Heroes ‘N Pirates

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 5:52 am

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  Use the shortcode
  [youtube=URL]

  Everything else goes wonky from time to time, but this always works.

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 6:48 am

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  The video isn’t a youtube video.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 6:53 am

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  So why not tell us what it is and give us a link to it and tell us the method you are using to embed it.

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 7:04 am

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  Thanks for your reply. I’m using the standard URL embedding icon on visual editing. This is the link:
  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb6scs_norah-jones-come-away-with-me_music

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 7:16 am

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  Well, it’s a hulu video, so that could be the problem. Have you tried the Dailymotion shortcode method explained here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/dailymotion/

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 7:30 am

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  I’ll try it, thanks.

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 7:56 am

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  I was told “No preset. This video is not preset because it has no video stream.”

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 7:57 am

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  That should have read “This video is not available because it has no video stream.”

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 8:20 am

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  Sounds like it’s blocked either in your location or in the location of the server hosting your blog. That’s a problem with Hulu. Try looking on a different site for the same video.

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 8:24 am

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  Both Dailymotion and Hulu won’t open. Those are the only sites that have the video. I found it on Youtube but when I clicked on it, the video box read:

  “This video contains content from EMI, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”

  So is my best bet just posting the Dailymotion link? I’ve done that and posted the song off youtube but the video is just a still of Norah Jones’ face.

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  heroesnpirates · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 8:25 am

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  Thanks by the way for your continuing help. I’m going to bed will check back when I wake. Thank you so much.

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  rilm · Member · Oct 24, 2012 at 10:30 am

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  I am having the same problem, with a youtube video, and I tried the shortcode without success. I tried using the whole URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LweZOAUPUSU), I tried omitting the first part, I tried it using the media button and I tried just typing the whole thing into the text box. Do you have any ideas?

  The blog is bibliolore.org.–it’s modified Pilcrow, if that helps.