Google Video
When it comes to free video hosting, apparently YouTube isn’t the only kid on the block. Google Video support is here! You didn’t think we would deny you the pleasure of posting videos like this, did you?
This is the code that displays that video (spaces added to force word wrap):
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=
http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%
26secureurl%3DjQAAAI2D-oeokHvEtP4vUMF6XpEPkLnk1CzCPWh_ceWkgqteI
ts5AhlVKPfw7OTKxfMTnFueC7owITuZG8Bgbq4EjeChTgoTU__CTEDXJH_pKnb-
5HC2YGPArZRmloEk3bAoAvK5__9X1oW8dq0mZ-xFB1-6xdVitpR-FnidBC0Gpx0
gTQjijrq7vrNfCh-mkLIP2g%26sigh%3Dr8uwuHM27caxFbz2AvH3PHkAUpg%26
begin%3D0%26len%3D21366%26docid%3D3728266100951844857&thumbnail
Url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid
%3D7d3c304a1b09e543%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1
138895377%26sigh%3D7g3V08dj4BKPsDXSwXhOmNiY2fQ&playerId=3728266
100951844857&playerMode=embedded]
You’ll find that long URL in the HTML code provided by Google Video’s “Put on site” feature. To extract the URL, remove everything from <embed to src=" and everything after the next quotation mark (").
Sorry this is harder than the Youtube integration, but Google makes things a little tricky. Enjoy!
February 6th, 2006 at 6:20 am
By the way, this feature (and post) was brought to you by Andy.
February 6th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Cool.
February 6th, 2006 at 6:36 am
Wow, so cool, looking forward to more features. I really think WordPress.com rocks~
February 6th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Thank you!!
February 6th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Excellent! Thanks.
February 6th, 2006 at 8:55 am
sweet
February 6th, 2006 at 8:56 am
This is great! Now I can add even more hilarious videos to my site.
February 6th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Rated EXCELLENT!
February 6th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Very Good
February 6th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Awesome! WordPress.com rocks!
February 6th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Nice. I get more and more impressed with WordPress everyday.
February 6th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I have tried… but I do not succeed to make it to work
But the code goes inserted in modality HTML?
Thanks.
February 6th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
I appreciate this feature, and thanks, WP..
but,..
I hope you introduce some more important features that may be helpful to a wider level of audience. Not all people like videos on their blogs. A more general feature would be nicer.
Anyways,
thanks a lot
February 6th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Quite nice feature!
But where is this video from? Can you take any video, or do you have to take one from Google?
February 6th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Thanks guys! That rocks!
February 6th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
jupp – great.
February 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Thanks so much, great work!
February 6th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Thanks so much Matt. I have been waiting for this.
February 6th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
brilliant
February 6th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Amazing, thanks!
February 7th, 2006 at 1:55 am
Wow, I did not expect yet another Video option. Great Job!
February 7th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I notice a white box on the Google Video in this blog entry.
February 7th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
it’s good tag
google videos 
nice feauture 
February 7th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
How about http://dailymotion.com/ support, too? It’s a great service!
February 8th, 2006 at 3:32 am
I am so glad I switched to WordPress.
February 8th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Hi! I thought I’d commented this already, but it seems I haven’t. Could we please have support for http://dailymotion.com/ too? It’s a service similar to YouTube (and imho, nicer: no watermarking, less clutter).
Having the choice of Google Video is already great, but I’d really love Daily Motion support
February 8th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
If you support it I promise to do tons of video blogging
February 8th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
just testing a little bit!
February 9th, 2006 at 9:58 am
hey, all these hype and positive feedback seem so fake to me.
get real guys. blogger.com don’t even have all thesehassle of modifying HTML codes, and you guys applause when wordpress.com give you all these limitations?
seriously, get real.
February 9th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Matt,
I don’t know if it’s google’s problem or mine, but I can’t get it to work. They player shows up, but no video. I think it’s a great feature, just spell it out for us noobs a little more.
Thanks!
February 12th, 2006 at 12:53 am
It would be cool if these sort of clever features were on the editor window, sort of like click here and it will ask you for the URL and then insert the code for you, just a reminder of the extra features that are available for new users who may not have spotted this news post and the previous YouTube one
February 12th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Thanks! good job!
February 14th, 2006 at 5:43 am
Everytime i try to post a google video the editor automatically links the url between [googlevideo= ... ] … no matter how many times i tell it to unlink it…
February 14th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Um, It wont work for me
. I’m using a new template, maybe thats why.
February 15th, 2006 at 3:29 am
wow it’s so cool
February 16th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
This is nice to support another video format, but when I tried to embed youtube.com videos in my posts, it made the loading of my blog really slow for me (and I am on DSL) — so I post links out to my videos.
Still waiting on my customizable header — is that so much to ask? All I wanna do is swap a picture for a boring plain solid color header.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Hahahahaha that gazella ran into a tree!!!!!!
But seriously… nice work guys cheers.
February 19th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Pretty good.. Have you see http://www.golakes.co.uk/baarmysheep/
February 27th, 2006 at 5:17 am
I just found out that I can add google videos! Cooool! Keep up the good work!
May 15th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
excellent! thanks so much and it made me laugh to!!!
May 22nd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
hmmmmmmmm fabulous………..hahahah nice one…..its really made me laugh,
June 19th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Sweet, thank you.
July 17th, 2006 at 4:10 am
Works perfectly!
July 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Does anyone know how to change the size of the embedded video?
July 24th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Thanks! I’ve been trying to figure this out all day!
July 30th, 2006 at 9:32 am
The Google Video page doesn’t seem to have “Put on site” anymore, so I can’t get the long URL to put the video in. Anyone know where I can find it?
August 25th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I agree with expresscheckout, I can’t find where in Google Video I can get that long URL. Any idea ? There is not a “Put on site” button anymore
August 30th, 2006 at 8:31 am
Hi,
What about an [mp3:] syntax, that would insert an inline flash player like the one in Podpress: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ ?
regards,
pieterr
September 3rd, 2006 at 7:42 am
google has removes this feature?
December 24th, 2006 at 7:55 am
It has changed but I think I figured it out!!! YAAH!
So you want to use the followings steps.
1) Change to the code view when posting a new message.
2) Type [googlevideo= in the code view.
3) In the Google video there is a button you can press the "Email-Blog-MySpace" button
4) It will expand into a new section
5) Beside the bolded "Send Link" click on the "Embed HTML" link -- getting there!
6) Copy the entire text from the window that appears
7) As stated above just cut out the text between the quotations after the src= bit.
9) You would end up with a link http://video.google.com/somestuff
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1741400817038199654&hl=en
10) Place this after the [googlevideo= bit and you're done
11) Add an end brace --> ]
12) You’ll get [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/somestuff] (don’t forget the end brace.
Happy vidoeing!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:02 am
Thank you Shane !