Hi Kim. This is a test page hosted in a wordpress site that demonstrates imbedding a video (in this case an Apple Quicktime .mov) file in a wordpress post or page, using the Anarchy Media Player plugin. The video is an Apple Mac ad. It works on both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Here’s another one. This is the first part of the “This is USPSA Practical Shooting” video. It’s a Windows Media Viewer .wmv file.
Details as follows for both Kim and Rob.
I’m using the anarchy media player plugin, as found at http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player. I modified one file in it (/images/vid_play.gif) to drop in the uspsa diamond logo rather than their own stark grey logo, which we wouldn’t want.
As stated in their documentation, “Anarchy Media Player 1.6 for WordPress, WordPressMu and Standalone Javascript will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web page. The WordPress versions also add buttons to the Rich Text Editor for embedding Flash swf and Director dcr movies as well as YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, DailyMotion, Revver, Metacafe, MySpace, Apple iTunes iMix, and GoEar players.”.
I uploaded the plugin to my wordpress plugins directory and activated it. That’s all it needed. Please note, if you have the Kimili flash embed plugin installed (I’m guessing you probably don’t), you MUST remove it before activating the anarchy player. They use the same variable names and you’ll get php redefine errors and the site won’t even come up at that point. You won’t lose anything by replacing Kimili with Anarchy, as Anarchy includes Kimili’s full flash player functionality.
Then I simply wrote a new post and included a html “a href” link to a (in this case) quicktime .mov file that I wanted to display. Oddly, I had to enclose the href to the .mov file in a single row, single cell table so that the imbedded player wouldn’t overwrite the text that appeared below it.
Note to Rob: the plugin documentation on the website says you can just upload your video files to a post or page within wordpress the same way as you would a .gif or .jpg. However, the sample I used here was 3.34mg in size and I got an error message saying I had exceeded the upload size limit as specified in php.ini. I wouldn’t presume to change that myself, of course, so I uploaded the .mov file separately using ftp.
As a suggestion (and Kim, you’re probably not going to like this), but to take advantage of the full capabilities of wordpress, you’re probably going to want to stop using the visual rich text editor in wordpress and go to the more basic html editor. The visual rich editor gets in the way of adding things like php script (assuming you have the php script plugin) and inhibits your ability to get into the internals of the html code that makes up a page.
Hope this help. Thanks. Bn