Vodpod videos not showing up in post

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  guerrillagardening · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 9:24 pm

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  I’ve been trying to get two vodpod videos to show up on my blog. When I preview the post they show up as a large blank space but the player and video never show up. The shortcode for the two videos are:

  [vodpod id=Video.3319532&w=425&h=350&fv=allowfullscreen%3Dtrue%26config%3D%7B]

  and

  [vodpod id=Video.3319532&w=425&h=350&fv=allowfullscreen%3Dtrue%26config%3D%7B]

  Anyone have a clue why these wouldn’t work?

  Thanks!

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 1:07 am

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  I am not familiar with Vodpod, but I took the time to read the Support documentation and it looks like you have to insert it in a widget. I’m not sure you can insert this in a post.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/vodpod-videos-widget/

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  guerrillagardening · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 3:04 am

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  Thanks airodyssey.

  They can be used in widgets (though I haven’t tried) but I’ve also found documentation both on vodpod and wordpress.com indicating that vodpod videos can also be used in posts. In fact it’s recommended as a method for getting otherwise impossible videos embedded. Unfortunately I’ve had no luck getting them to do so.

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  guerrillagardening · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 3:04 am

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  Thanks airodyssey.

  They can be used in widgets (though I haven’t tried) but I’ve also found documentation both on vodpod and wordpress.com indicating that vodpod videos can also be used in posts. In fact it’s recommended as a method for getting otherwise impossible videos embedded. Unfortunately I’ve had no luck getting them to do so.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 3:46 am

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  I stand corrected… I just tried VodPod’s “Post to WordPress” bookmarklet and it appears to work even for posts.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/vodpod/
  Is that what you tried?

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 3:49 am

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  I’m starting to think there is a problem with the video you were trying to share. This is what I get when I paste your code into a widget:

  Error, collection “Video.3319532” was not found

  And when I paste it on a post but remove the text after “fv=”, all I get is an empty player. Try getting the embed code for that video again.

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  guerrillagardening · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 3:32 pm

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  Thanks! It looks like it’s actually an issue with Vodpod’s import function that wasn’t immediately apparent :P

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm

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  You’re welcome!