Help:Embedding Video

This Help page shows how to play videos and audio within the wiki, where the media can be hosted locally or on one of many popular video sharing sites.

The wiki supports two video/audio playing extensions:

• Extension:EmbedVideo - for videos hosted on popular video sharing sites including youtube, youtubehd, dailymotion, edutopia, funnyordie, googlevdieo, inertia, revver, sevenload, and teachertube
• Extension:MediawikiPlayer - for wiki-hosted MP4 videos and MP3 audio. It can also play FLV files and remote MP3/MP4 files, and youtube clips.

See the links above or sections below for example usage.

Extension:EmbedVideo - Play video from popular video sharing sites

The minimum syntax is as shown below:

{{#ev:service|id}}

Where

• service: the video sharing site; one of dailymotion, divshare,edutopia,funnyordie,googlevideo,interiavideo,revver,sevenload,teachertube,youtube and youtubehd
• id: the site specific id of the video to be played.

In addition, a width, alignment (left or right) and description can optionally be provided, as shown below

{{#ev:service|id|width}}
{{#ev:service|id|width|align}}
{{#ev:service|id|width|align|desc}}
{{#evp:service|id|desc}}
{{#evp:service|id|desc|align}}
{{#evp:service|id|desc|align|width}}

For more information see Extension:EmbedVideo#Usage (Extension help). Note that the help indicates that Vimeo is supported, which is not true in the version on this site.

Examples

Minimum Syntax

{{#ev:youtube|YKumseMIY2U}}

Width, alignment and description

{{#ev:youtube|YKumseMIY2U|250|right|Description text for video}}

Description text for video

Description and alignment

{{#evp:youtube|YKumseMIY2U|Description text for video|right}}

Description text for video

Site examples

Below are some examples of the different sites being used. Note, not all sites have been tested.

Youtube

{{#ev:youtube|YKumseMIY2U}}

{{#ev:youtubehd|X38v0S2Y548}}

Dailymotion

 {{#ev:dailymotion|xgc7ad_time-lapse-photography-with-the-qt-sdk-gmail-drive-hak5_tech}}

Funnyordie

{{#ev:funnyordie|b255f516fb}}

Revver

{{#ev:revver|1902727}}

Extension:MediawikiPlayer- play audio and video both locally and from video sharing sites

The extension is well documented here: Extension:MediawikiPlayer#Usage (Extension help). In addition to the cases listed below you can specify your own preview image, and use remote files and youtube.

Video player (simple) (mp4, flv)

<mediaplayer>http://www.yourdomain.com/mediafile.mp4</mediaplayer>

or

<mediaplayer>File:mediafile.mp4</mediaplayer>

The media player is loading...

Audio player (mp3)

<mp3player>http://www.yourdomain.com/mediafile.mp3</mp3player>

The media player is loading...

Video using arguments

<mediaplayer width='500' height='300'>http://www.yourdomain.com/mediafile.flv</mediaplayer>

The media player is loading...