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XHTML Video Embed

About

The XHTML is great as long as the validation is kept, or it’s (kinda) useless. At least it’s useless if someone decides to serve it as XML. Anyway, the Web Standards S.H.O.U.L.D. be respected. XHTML Video Embed is a simple WordPress plug-in which allows you to easily embed multimedia content from various services by keeping the XHTML validation of your WordPress theme (if it has one). I wrote this plugin because I was kinda unhappy with the current solutions and their output. Feel free to request support for other video service. If it can be integrated in a nice way, I would gladly extend the plug-in’s functionality. The feedback is also welcomed.

Lincensing

The plug-in is licenced under the GPL v2.0 Open Source license (aka Free Software - Free as in speech and beer ;)). Other things may have other licenses, but the freedom is complete since v0.3.3 as the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER (which was free for non-commercial usage) has been replaced. This wasn’t a technical issue since the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER is a great piece of software, but a licensing issue. Since v0.3.3, the FLV embedding is made by default by FLV Player which isn’t restricted by that non-commercial usage problem. If you don’t break the law, you can still use the previous media player if you make some slight modifications to the “flv” branch of the swc_convert_url(); function, into the the ‘return’ line. Replace it with:

return swc_repl_amp($_mpPath.”?file=”.$_iURL); //Careful when copying the quotes (”)! They may be displayed as fancy quotes which may break the code!

Please remember that the player’s name must be `mediaplayer.swf`.

Notice: under Linux, the v4.0 of the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER doesn’t properly support the fullscreen mode. The previous version (which is available with the older releases of XVE) does properly support the fullscreen mode.

Installation

Download the distribution archive from here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xhtml-video-embed/

Then follow the installation instructions from here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xhtml-video-embed/installation/

Notice: please follow the instructions exactly, or I can’t guarantee that certain features should work as expected.

FAQ

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xhtml-video-embed/faq/

Usage

The plugin doesn’t have any kind of interface, so it works based on some BB-like tags. I wrote the tags with spaces in order to prevent the automatic object replacement since I actually use my own stuff (should I add a “dooh”). The correct tags should be used without spaces nor line breaks like: [swf], [flv], [youtube], [google-video], [metacafe], [trilu-video], [trilu-audio], [trilu-imagine], [trilu-image], [dailymotion], [myspace], [revver], [spike], [vimeo], [jumpcut], [mogulus] plus the matching close tag. Roughly this syntax is something like:

**[tag]http://example.com/video-path-or-id[/tag]**

The tags are case insensitive, so if you would like to write something like: [YouTube] - the plugin still works. Since the plugin is self-documented, you can check its Options panel located under Options » XVE for configuration details and usage mode.

Localization

XHTML Video Embed may speak your language. At the moment is speaks English (native), Romanian (add-on), Spanish (add-on), and Dutch (add-on).

The Spanish and the Dutch is provided by Álvaro who was kind enough to donate some time to this plug-in. Many thanks!

Note

The credits notice which you can see under the inserted flash object is optional. It’s disabled by default.

Online Demo

SWF
FLV
YouTube (including High Definition by adding to the URL the proper parameters: &fmt=6, &fmt=18, or &fmt=22)
Google Video
Metacafe
Trilulilu Video
Trilulilu Audio
Trilulilu Image
Dailymotion
MySpace TV
Revver
Spike
Vimeo
Jumpcut
Mogulus
Capped TV
GameTrailers (including user videos)
Veevo
CollegeHumor

Generic SWF:

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XHTML Video Embed

[tag]http://example.com/video-path-or-id[/tag]

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**[tag]http://example.com/video-path-or-id[/tag]**