YouTube Monopoly

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  andyash · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 5:32 am

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  WTF?! Why is there a YouTube monopoly on WP? I understand that the team doesn’t want to deal with regional video services like Yandex Video. But Vimeo is also prohibited. Wherever you go, it’s only YouTube. Enough of that s**t! We don’t have options to insert java and scripts, and audio, let us at least choose the video hosting.

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 6:20 am

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  Vimeo is allowed her as is a host of others:

  Blip.tv
  DailyMotion
  Flickr Video
  Google Video
  Kyte.tv
  LiveVideo
  PodTech
  Redlasso
  Splashcast
  TED Talks
  Viddler
  Videolog
  Vimeo
  Vodpod
  YouTube

  See the “related” column to the right of the content in this support document?

  If you can’t find something in the above that works for you, then perhaps you need to find a new host, yes? :-)

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  devblog · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 6:21 am

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  You can always move to another service such as blogger.

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  phoxis · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 6:25 am

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  there are many options you can use in wordpress. First of all there is a paid service VideoPress : http://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/

  And the other services which you can use with wordpress shortcodes are :
  * Blip.tv
  * DailyMotion
  * Flickr Video
  * Google Video
  * Kyte.tv
  * LiveVideo
  * PodTech
  * Redlasso
  * Splashcast
  * TED Talks
  * Viddler
  * Videolog
  * Vimeo
  * Vodpod
  * YouTube

  Read all about them here : http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/
  and http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/

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  phoxis · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 6:26 am

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  hey ! i and thesacredpath posted almost the same reply at the same time !!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 6:30 am

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  @phoxis, we’re in stereo, and thanks for adding the links. I was going to, but due to the third beer while watching the sunset I forgot.

  And yes, it was a gorgeous sunset over looking the Pacific on Hawaii Island, complet with 5, yes count them, 5 seconds of green flash.

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  universalgeni · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 2:51 pm

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  By using VodPod you can embed 98 percent of all the videos you can find. As long as there’s an embed url available at the site, that is.

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  andyash · Member · Jun 6, 2010 at 5:44 pm

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  Thanks guys. It’s just that last night a Vimeo video (I used the embed code from Vimeo) from Insired by Iceland didn’t open in my blog – only the words under the video. I didn’t know you have to play with some shortcodes.