FLV Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding Flash videos (FLV) into your blog using Jeroen’s FLV Player.
For commercial use and implementation, you need to purchase a license. I can help you with that and provide technical support if desired.
If you want information about encoding videos into FLV and why you should use FLV, Jeroen has also written an excellent article which you can find on his site.
First of all, I do know there are already quite a few plugins that does similar things but I decided to make my own plugin for several reasons:
- to enforce a standard plugin tag style (all of my other plugins use the same tag style)
- no bells and whistles, this plugin embeds an FLV file and does it the easiest way
- uses highly portable, extensible and future proof tags
- XHTML compliant for those who cares about validation
Starting from version 1.0, FLV Embed supports Google video sitemap generation, the first WordPress plugin that does it for you! ;)
FLV Embed in action
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Video sitemap
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Features
- uses simple, intuitive tags to generate Flash video (FLV) movies for your posts
- supports video sitemap generation
- standards compliant: valid XHTML
- many options are configurable, such as autostart, show/hide control bar, player colour, poster image, full screen button etc.
- highly interactive admin option panel for player configuration
- supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content
- supports outputting poster image for RSS if desired
- accessibility: requires Javascript to display FLV player, but will prompt user to enable Javascript when disabled
- accessibility: prompt user to download latest Flash player if it is not installed or too old
- accessibility: no annoying “click to activate” for IE users
Usage
This plugin uses one universal, standard tag style:
- url - the URL of the FLV file you want to embed, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
- width - width of the FLV movie
- height - height of the FLV movie
Jeroen’s FLV Player supports poster frame so you can turn on this feature via options if desired. The following two examples show FLV embed with and without poster frame.
Without poster frame
The poster frame feature is turned off by default.
Example input:
Example output:
With poster frame
In order to use this poster frame feature, you will need to turn it on via options. Once turned on, the player will look for preview image that share the same filename as the embedded FLV file. For example, if your embedded FLV file is “demo.flv”, the player will display “demo.jpg” as preview image. By default, the filetype of preview image is “jpg”, but this can be changed via options.
Example input:
Example output:
Version 0.3 onwards
Starting from version 0.3, it is possible to have your poster image at a different location than your FLV files. To achieve that, an optional 4th argument for the input tag and a new option $flv_posterpath were introduced. Below shows the tag syntax that should be used to provide a poster path:
- movie - the URL of the FLV file, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
- poster - the URL of the poster image, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
- width - width of the FLV movie
- height - height of the FLV movie
It is recommended that you try different settings for $flv_posterpath (found in option panel) and poster argument to have a feel how they work. There are several different ways how you could combine $flv_posterpath and optional poster path tag parameter to tell the plugin the poster location is not the same as the flv location.
If all your poster images are put within the same directory but not the same as the FLV files, change $flv_posterpath to point to your image directory, and no poster argument is required when using the embed tags. Make sure all the poster images have the same filename as the FLV files. If your poster images are scattered all over the places i.e. not within the same directory and not necessarily has the same filename as your FLV files, then use the poster argument to indicate where the poster image is.
The plugin detects the path used in the tags to determine if $flv_posterpath and $flv_flvpath should be used. In cases where absolute or site relative path are given as argument for the tags, $flv_posterpath and $flv_flvpath will have no effect on the output.
Users without Flash or Javascript
Unfortunately, about 2% of your users might not have Flash installed and about 10% of them might not have Flash 8 or above according to Adobe. For these users, the ufo.js will detect and output appropriate message that prompts these users to download and install latest Flash player onto their computers. Here’s an example screenshot that show you how this works:
While most modern browser supports Javascript, some users are too afraid that Javascript will screw up their computer so they turn it off just to be safe. This becomes a problem because this WordPress plugin relies on Javascript to display the FLV Player. To solve this problem, “noscript” tags are used to prompt these users to enable their Javascript and refresh the page for the Flash player to show up. Here’s an example screenshot:
Text only output:
By default, this plugin will output text that reads “[See post to watch Flash video]” for your RSS feeds only. If you wished you could display the poster image in your RSS feeds by setting $flv_posterinfeed option (see below) to 1.
Sitemap
Starting from version 1.0, FLV Embed supports video sitemap generation. In order to see the video sitemap option panel, you need to turn on the sitemap feature under your FLV Embed option panel.
The plugin will try to create a video sitemap file in your blog root but this might not be successful depending on your server configuration. If the plugin is unable to create the video sitemap file for you, then you will need to manually upload the video sitemap file to your blog root, chmod it “664″ (or “666″ depending on your server configuration) and tell the plugin where to locate your video sitemap under options.
Custom field data are used by the plugin to generate the video sitemap. If you have been using FLV Embed in the past, you can tell the plugin to insert missing custom field data for all published post by clicking the “Update Custom Fields” button within your video sitemap option page. This will also update any existing custom fields should there be any noticeable changes.
Automatic custom field insert can be disabled on a per post basis by putting [flv:skip] at the end of your blog post. Each time video sitemap is rebuilt successfully, Google will be pinged about the sitemap updates automatically. This plugin will try not to ping Google more than once per hour (as per Google’s suggestion), but you can override this by manually pinging via the “Force Ping” button found in sitemap option panel.
Click on the demo below to have a look how the generated video sitemap will look like. You might want to “view source” to see the actual XML content.
Options
Starting from version 1.0, you can change just about everything this plugin does using the plugin option panel. Below list some of the parameters that might be confusing for you when changing different options.
$flv_useposter: 0 to disable poster frame, 1 to display poster frame i.e. preview image$flv_posterinfeed: 0 to show text only output in feeds, 1 to display poster frame i.e. preview image in feeds$flv_imagetype: Preview image extension, can be “jpg”, “png” or “gif”$flv_posterpath: Path to poster images, trailing slash required$flv_flvpath: Path to FLV movie files, trailing slash required$flv_backcolor: Background color of the FLV Player *$flv_frontcolor: Texts / buttons color of the FLV Player *$flv_lightcolor: Rollover/ active color of the FLV Player *$flv_screencolor: Background color of the display of the FLV Player *$flv_logo: URL to watermark logo that will be displayed at the bottom right corner$flv_link: URL to go to when the logo is clicked$flv_overstretch: Defines how to stretch images/movies to make them fit the display.- “true” will stretch them proportionally to fill the display
- “false” will stretch them to fit
- “fit” will stretch them disproportionally to fit both height and width
- “none” will show all items in their original dimensions.
$flv_largecontrols: 0 to disable, 1 to make the controlbar twice as large for visually impaired users$flv_showdigits: 0 to hide the digits, 1 to show the digits for % loaded, elapsed and remaining time in the FLV Player$flv_showicons: 0 to hide icons, 1 to show the play/loading icon in the middle of the display$flv_showfsbutton: 0 to hide fullscreen button, 1 to show fullscreen button$flv_show_stop: 0 to hide stop button, 1 to show stop button$flv_showvolume: 0 to hide volume button, 1 to show volume button$flv_showcontrolbar: 0 to hide control bar, 1 to show control bar$flv_autostart: 0 to disable autostart, 1 to enable autostart (strongly discouraged as it’s annoying from a user perspective)$flv_bufferlength: Number of seconds an FLV should be buffered ahead before the player starts it$flv_volume: Startup volume for FLV Player
* These settings can be found in fullscreen.php as well which set the player appearance in full screen mode for older Flash users
Installation
- Download and extract the “flv-embed” folder
- Upload the “flv-embed” folder to your WordPress plugin directory, usually “wp-content/plugins”
- Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
- For video sitemap feature to work properly, you should follow the instruction here
Upgrade
- Deactivate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
- Remove the “flv-embed” folder in your WordPress plugin directory
- Follow the installation guide above
Download
FLV Embed plugin 1.1 for WordPress 2.5+ (58kb .zip)
If you are using older version of WordPress, please download FLV Embed 1.0 from here instead.
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This plugin has been downloaded 12900 times since May 9, 2007 ( 878 times since version 1.1 ) |
Support
If you have any questions, suggestions, or found any bugs in this plugin, feel free to post them in your comments. I’ll try my best to answer them but there’s no guarantee, so don’t be disappointed if you do not hear back from me promptly. :/ Always include a URL to the problem page whenever you are asking for help, it will make it easier for me to figure out your problem. Lastly, if you find this plugin useful and feel like donating some money for my effort, please use the PayPal donate button above, thank you! <3
FAQs
I keep getting “Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.” message even though I have the latest Flash player. Why?
It is very likely that wp_head() function is missing in your theme’s header. To fix this, put the following code into your WordPress theme’s header file (usually header.php, under Presentation -> Theme Editor), right before the </head>:
<?php wp_head(); ?>
Why doesn’t my flash video stretch properly?
You need a better encoder, or you can also try different settings for $flv_overstretch option.
How can I change the location of the logo?
Unfortunately you cannot, by default the logo will show at the top right corner. You might be able to manually add transparent padding to your png logo to shift the logo to where you want it to be, though it is not recommended.
How can I align the video in the middle?
Put the following code into your theme’s stylesheet (for easy way of doing this, see MyCSS):
#player1, #player2, #player3 {text-align: center;}
How can I get the cool-sexy-fade-away-interface look as seen in the demo?
Uncheck the “Show the control bar” checkbox under option. ;)
Is (insert feature name) supported by this plugin?
If you know that a certain feature is supported by JW FLV Player but is not supported by this plugin yet, feel free to make a request. Otherwise, it might be hard for me to provide such functionality especially those related to player’s functionality and appearance.
How can I embed a video from sites like YouTube?
First, you will need to find out the location of the FLV file. KeepVid can help you with this. Once you find out the URL of the FLV file, use it as the file argument when using the FLV Embed tags. (version 1.0 has problem dealing with URL that has the “&” character, this will be fixed in the next version)
If you are willing to wait a little longer, FLV Embed 1.2 will support YouTube playback.
How long will it take for my videos to show up in Google’s search results once I submitted my video sitemap?
Nobody can tell for sure. It seems to me that Google is just experimenting with the video sitemap feature and has yet to put it into action i.e. indexing the flv and including them as search results.
I really like this plugin, what can I do to help?
It will be highly appreciated if you can donate whatever you think this plugin is worth, or you can also spread the love by linking back to this page and share this hopefully useful plugin with your readers. 
History
1.1 [2008.04.22]
- Upgraded FLV Player to 3.14
- Added: New video sitemap appearance
- Added: Auto remove invalid FLV files from custom field during custom field update
- Changed: Admin option panel for WordPress 2.5+
- Fixed: Only published post will be included in the video sitemap
1.0 [2007.12.30]
- Upgraded FLV Player to 3.12
- Added: Admin option panel
- Added: Video sitemap support
- Added: Option to show/hide volume button
- Added: Option to show/hide stop button
- Added: Option to show large control bar for visually impaired users
0.3.2 [2007.05.31]
- Added: Option to show poster image in feeds
0.3.1 [2007.05.19]
- Fixed: poster path problem
0.3 [2007.05.10]
- Upgraded FLV Player to 3.7
- Switched to SWFObject instead of ufo.js
- Added: Option to show/hide logo with link
- Added: Option to set poster and flv movie path
- Added: Option to show/hide icons
- Added: Option to set volume
- Added: Optional tag parameter for poster path
0.2 [2007.02.16]
- Upgraded FLV Player to 3.5
- Added: Option to show/hide controller bar
- Added: Option to change buffer length
- Added: Option to set overstretch
- Fixed: IE display problem
0.1 [2007.01.09]
- Initial release
334 responses so far ↓
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Dan
// May 14, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Hi, I’m pretty lost with getting this to work and show my videos on the video sitemap on my site. I use Wordpress 2.5.1. Here’s what I’ve done so far. First, I downloaded the FLV-embed video player plugin and uploaded it to my site. The plugin is active and it successfully created a video sitemap xml page on my site. Then I uploaded the free Video Sitemap Pro software (http://www.videositemappro.com/923e54768.html) to facilitate adding the videos to the sitemap page. The videofeed.xml page does show up on my site (www.healthcoveragepost.com/videofeed.xml) but all I get is blank boxes with an X in them. I’ve upgraded FLV-embed to the version compatible with WP 2.5, and I’ve changed the videofeed.xml file to the 666 permisions. Has anyone tried this route and been able to get it to work? If it’s the free Video Sitemap software that is the problem, does anyone know how to add videos manually onto the sitemap page? I’ve tried following the Google Video Sitemap topics and forums with no success. Thanks, Dan
eyn // May 14, 2008 at 12:37 am
I notice a few of you is having problem with the poster image showing in feeds. I believe the problem is due to the way how I construct the poster path. In short, it will work nicely on regular domains such as .com, .net but if you have an unusual domain it might not work. I’ll see if I can fix that in the upcoming version.
The next update will allow blog owner to choose what output should be used for RSS feeds. There will be 3 choices: output text prompt, output poster image and output raw embed code. For those of you who are using Google Reader, as far as I know it does not support embed of flash player except those coming from bigger names like YouTube etc. (link) Other RSS reader such as Netvibes do support the output of raw embed code.
As for Google Analytics support, I already have that working in the development version, so you guys can expect this feature in the next plugin update.
And Andy, the description seems screwed up for your site because of the way how your excerpt is created. They include image tags while one would expect excerpt to contain text only. In this case, the sitemap description field is meant to output just text.
Andy
// May 13, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hi!
First thanks for your great plugin! But I have a problem with the video-sitemap.The strip_tag stuff doesn’t seem to work. I always got the in the description. I have an excerpt for every post, so the fake_excerpt shouldn’t be used..
Another Day in Paradise » Blog Archive » The I5N Job // May 13, 2008 at 2:04 am
[...] file. The result isn’t very pretty but the resulting file is much smaller and thanks to a plugin, I can embed flash files in my WP posts. Now that the boring background is over, the less boring [...]
DJAeon // May 12, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Wonderful plug-in, I was wondering… does this work with blogger? I find it a better free host that word press.
roland
// May 10, 2008 at 12:40 pm
hi
i like you plug-in very much. i decided to work with your after trying out alot of others.
yours the best :-) i was so happy that i pushed the donate button ;-)
now i got two questions:
will it sometimes be possible that the player shows up in rss reader like google reader? or is it already and i missed something?
i activated the “Display poster image in RSS feeds” ( also “Display poster image for embedded FLV movies”) but the poster frame isnt found in vienna and google-reader.
thanx for help and l.gruz
roland
Willy V.
// May 7, 2008 at 4:25 pm
This is a very nice plugin especially if you want to play quicktime videos within a flash player. I also use mostly quicktime to play my vids but this is a very great way for the masses as well.
great plugin.
cube
// May 6, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hi!
You have written a brilliant plugin - works like a charm! Nicely integrated and easy to set up.
Just one suggestion. Jeroen’s player made video content accessible (additional audio and captions). Since it is a mere addition of “addVariable” (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Making_Video_Accessible) it might be a nice addition to your great plugin.
Nevertheless: you rock!
cube
dubqnp // May 4, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I just checked my own feed in googlereader. Think I’ve found the reason the preview image doesnt show - the image url was:
http://dubqnp.dkhttp//dubqnp.dk/flash/x.jpg
..does anyone have any good ideas as to what i should do to correct this?
How to Add Video to WordPress - Easily Add Videos to Your WordPress Blogs | Theme Lab
// May 3, 2008 at 1:14 pm
[...] videos, and would rather not host them on a third-party site, there’s no better plugin than FLV Embed. With this plugin you can add your video to a post or page with a quick tag. First you need to get [...]
Rob
// May 2, 2008 at 10:29 am
Couple of previous poseters mentioned blank players - I noticed this too and it looks like the flvplayer.swf is corrupt somehow. Replacing with the latest version from JWV fixed no problem.
Rob
// May 2, 2008 at 10:14 am
Great plugin - thanks.
The latest FLV player supports Google stats - be great to see this option added to FLV embed at some point.
Thanks
Rob
Ryan Cochran
// Apr 30, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I should mention… the site is:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com
I’ve donated before and would be more than happy to pay a consulting fee to get this fixed ASAP.
Ryan Cochran
// Apr 30, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Everything was cool, but then I upgraded to WP 2.5.1 and plugin version 1.1, and then everything went south quickly… Now, if I activate the plugin most IE users are met with an “operation aborted” error from IE and the page fails to load. Firefox users seem to be ok…
PLEASE HELP…
Aaron Russell
// Apr 30, 2008 at 9:17 am
As the previous poster I’ve had problems with version 1.1 on WP2.5. Videos are now shown as blank white blocks of nothing.
I’ve reverted to version 1.0 until a fix is found.
Hoodgrown Magazine
// Apr 29, 2008 at 8:53 am
Okay.. this morning.. I upgraded to 1.1…
absolutely didn’t work for me, at least…
nothing showed… I had to revert back to 1.0 to get it to show…
another problem i’m having is that it shows fine on the direct video page…
http://www.hoodgrownonline.com/online/?p=1051
but on the page that list all the videos, it shows the code
http://www.hoodgrownonline.com/online/?cat=6
Norm // Apr 27, 2008 at 9:03 am
Aha . . here’s the problem:
“in WordPress 2.5.0, shortcodes were parsed before post formatting was applied, so the shortcode output HTML was sometimes wrapped in p or br tags. This was incorrect behaviour that has been fixed in 2.5.1. “
Norm // Apr 25, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Update to Wordpress 2.5.1 and all my posted flash videoes disappeared.
What could have happened. The files and codes are still there.
Al
// Apr 25, 2008 at 10:23 am
hello,
Firefox it works well
but I found some issue while viewing it in IE, simply IE page gaves me “error”,
I put the new flash player in internet explorer
and try again and again but sometimes work and someother gives me an error
is the IE 7
Wordpress 2.5: les plugins que j’utilise | Benoit Descary // Apr 24, 2008 at 10:19 pm
[...] FLV Embed pour intégrer de la vidéo FLV ( Flash) sur votre blogue. Lorsque j’ai débuté mon blogue, j’utilisais surtout des services comme Dailymotion ou YouTube pour diffuser des screencast sur mon blogue. Depuis l’été dernier, j’ai plutôt décidé d’héberger mes screencast sur mon blogue. Je ne regrette pas cette décision puisque grâce à ce plugin, mes vidéos sont de meilleure qualité et peuvent être affichés en mode plein écran. [...]
Frou
// Apr 23, 2008 at 10:19 am
Hi Eyn,
It looks like “screencolor/display background” color doesn’t work.
I don’t know about php, but as I see in the result code of any post:
s1.addVariable(”backcolor”,”0xbcc5a3″);
s1.addVariable(”frontcolor”,”0×5e6941″);
s1.addVariable(”lightcolor”,”0×7e6941″);
s1.addVariable(”overstretch”,”false”);
See? there is no variable for screencolor, it continues with the overstretch variable.
Did I miss anyting? I reviewed settings a lot of times but everything seems correct.
Regards.
Joel Teixeira
// Apr 23, 2008 at 1:45 am
Eyn,
I use the lesterchan wp-print plugin by and it woks great, but when the post have some video I get the message “[1] Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.”.
There is some way to show the poster image like showed in feeds?
Example:
http://joelteixeira.net/2008/04/arte-e-areia/
http://joelteixeira.net/2008/04/arte-e-areia/print/
I know you probably would be crazy if was concerned to maintain compatibility with all existing plugins. So if this is something very laborious nevermind, it’s just a detail.
Just one last, really last question :-) how could I show the content of videositemap on a page? I know that I can redirect with (e.g. links_to plugin) but this get ride with my template and sidebars. Is that possible, to show inside a page?
Joel Teixeira
// Apr 23, 2008 at 12:31 am
I thought that was something like that, I had similar error in the past with another plugins. I’ll evaluate other servers and disable the duration check.
Note: I have currently more than 200 articles on my blog. Guess what most commented? Yeap, about FLV Embed ;-)
http://joelteixeira.net/2008/01/utilizando-o-flv-embed-wordpress-plugin/
Very thank you.
eyn // Apr 23, 2008 at 12:08 am
Joel, I think it’s a problem with your server memory limit. The plugin is trying to read the content of the FLV file to get the duration and it seems that your server does not give PHP enough memory to read in the whole file. You can either ask your host to increase the PHP memory limit or disable the duration detection for now. As far as I know, Google does not support the duration field very well so far, videos will just show up as “Unknown length” even if the duration is defined in the video sitemap.
Joel Teixeira
// Apr 22, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Eyn, I’m getting an error when I try to update the custom fields of Video Sitemap:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19884331 bytes) in /home/joelteix/public_html/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flv-embed.php on line 325
Is this happening with someone else?
I love this plugin, thank you very very much,
eyn // Apr 22, 2008 at 5:46 pm
FLV Embed 1.1 has been released. The most important changes is the support for WordPress 2.5+. A new video sitemap layout has also been added. If thumbnails are found in your video sitemap, it will be displayed when you access the XML file via browser.
I’ve also fixed the problem with unpublished post being included in sitemap. Now the plugin will also detect if the FLV embedded is valid before adding them to the custom field.
The excerpt problem has yet to fixed and I will try to address it in the next update. There will be more changes in the upcoming 1.3 such as YouTube playback support and additional options for the FLV Player appearance.
Overall, FLV Embed 1.1 is for those who upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and desire a more native feel when visiting the FLV Embed settings page. ;)
Norm // Apr 20, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Where can I get the previous version (which worked perfectly for months)
V1.0 causes wordpress 2.5 admin page to disappear. After entering the code I hit Save button and I get a blank page. All backend pages are blank . . . can’t log- in, etc.
Alex Dergachev @ EvolvingWeb.CA // Apr 17, 2008 at 7:17 pm
The plugin replaces [flv:http://myflv.com/file.flv 33 44] with a tag full of javascript. There’s a newline in this script tag that causes a problem when applying embed_flv function to the_excerpt, since it later gets processed by wpautop, which sticks a tag in the middle of the script tag! My simple solution was to get rid of the newline, on line 927 of flv-embed.php.
Good luck!
paolo
// Apr 11, 2008 at 6:59 am
hello, I’m trying this plugin because looks great
but I found some issue while viewing it in IE, simply IE page gaves me “error”, while with Firefox it works great
some idea of how to fix it?
Amir
// Apr 8, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Hi!
This is Amir, from Gibni.com,
I’ve got some issues with your javascripts and plugins while I was trying to optimize my website.
Well, the thing is that in the optimization process, I prevent the plugins to insert their js files automatically, and instead, I copy/past the script from the js files to a single js file which will be again gzipped with a php script. and then the theme loads the combined,zipped and optimized js into the header.
The problem is when I do that, plugins like FLV-EMBED stop working, and I recieve error messages. In flv-elbed’s’ case, when loading a swf movie, i get a “SWFObject is not a constructor”.
Please provide me info on how i can do that.
AM // Apr 8, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Nevermind, I figured it out … permissions issue on server. All good now!
(and yes, the .flv from Flash CS3 works fine…)
AM
AM // Apr 8, 2008 at 12:57 am
I would love to use this plug-in on a few blogs and support your efforts; but I can’t get the video play on a test page:
http://incopysecrets.com/testvideo.php
… it’s just a black player (I turned off poster option) and an ever-circling “loading” icon.
Also look at all that code on the post’s category page … is that normal?
http://incopysecrets.com/category/text-and-tables
(scroll down to bottom)
Now I’m completely new to Flash video so maybe the video is wrong? I imported the test .mov file into Flash CS3, which created an .flv out of it via their wizard.
I tried going to Jerome’s player thing you recommended, but I couldn’t figure out where to start after I unzipped it. Is it an app? a plug-in? what is it? But I figured Flash CS3 could do the job, anyway, yes?
thanks for any help!
AM
Jasper Ceelen
// Apr 1, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Hia! You’ve developped a great plug-in, I love it! :) I’ve got one question, how can i get the great layout on my video sitemap: http://www.jasperceelen.nl/videofeed.xml you have on yours? Where I have a FLV, Title and Landing Page your generates Video, Landing Page and Description. And in a much nicer way!
when i try to update the custom fields i get the following message: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77646264 bytes) in /home/jasperc/domains/jasperceelen.nl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flv-embed.php on line 300
I wan’t to display the video’s with a thumbnail and a nice description too :)
can you help me out on this?
Grtz,
Jasper Ceelen
eyn
// Mar 27, 2008 at 11:21 am
Liam, the problem with the video sitemap is most likely due to the fake excerpt generated by this plugin when the excerpt field is missing for a particular post.
This comes down to the way how excerpt is handled by this plugin. Currently the implementation is not robust enough and I will amend that in the next version. The problem with excerpt handling has also contributed to the reason why people are getting the raw code when they view a category or do a search.
fyi, it is not possible to have the flash player displayed in the category or search page if the blog theme calls for the excerpt of a post, which cannot contain any html tags (meaning no poster image, no javascript, no embed tags, just plain paragraph text). The solution I can think of is to handle excerpt similar to RSS feed i.e. display a message prompting user to visit the original post page to view the flash movie.
And for the problem with “Get the latest Flash Player to see this player”, there are a few possibility other than the one I put in the FAQs:
I will update the FAQs with this information, hope it helps in some way.
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