WordPress Video Player Not Appearing

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  dentonpl · Member · Jul 11, 2008 at 7:36 pm

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  I purchased the upgrade to enable video uploads and had uploaded a few videos that worked for about a month, but now new uploads are not showing up and the old ones have disappeared: http://dentonlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/summer-reading-club-starts-june-5th/
  http://dentonlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/a-screen-cast-of-ima-reader-putting-a-hold-on-a-movieyou-can-too/

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jul 11, 2008 at 10:07 pm

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  I see videos in both of those posts. Are you sure you don’t have some kind of blocker working?

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 12, 2008 at 6:59 am

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  I see them as well. Since wp.com videos are flash-based, try updating your flash player and see if they appear.

  “What is the format of video being played?
  The converted video played by WordPress video player is standard flash video. “
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/wordpress-video/

  You can test your flash player and update here
  http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Jul 12, 2008 at 9:27 am

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  I have a related question about wordpress video. In the faq link above, it states:

  For the above example, [wpvideo Mn9zHL5e w=400] is inserted into the post.
  Mn9zHL5e is the globally unique video id and should not be modified.

  w=400, which is optional, means that the display width is 400 pixels – the default value.
  You may set with to larger or smaller size, as long as it fits your blog them well.

  Actually, no – the w=400 does not appear in my video id. I’d like to make the video a little larger, but unless the number appears, you can’t.

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  disembedded · Member · Jul 12, 2008 at 5:51 pm

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  Yes, you can. One space after the video ID, just type in w=400 ( I use w=460 in my posts).

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Jul 12, 2008 at 6:00 pm

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  Great!

  OK, I just did it – not too impressed with the results, unfortunately. Makes it look much blurrier.

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · Jul 12, 2008 at 6:06 pm

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  @Lettershometoyou – probably dumb question—> did you adjust the height to compensate for change in width?

  &l=xxx&w=xxx

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 12:18 pm

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  Not a dumb question. There aren’t any instructions to change height, so I simply entered w=460. The height changed along with it. The video looks blurry in the larger format. This way it still looks OK:

  http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/sometimes-you-just-have-to-back-up/