Video plays a very important role in our WPMU implementation - and having looked nearly every possible way to work with video, Vipers Video Quicktags plugin is hard to beat. It provides simple shortcodes - and TinyMCE integration - for a large number of video hosting services (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and support for FLV, QuickTime and other formats.
Our implementation is unique in that we have a large library of FLV video hosted on the Akamai network. We made some modifications to the Viper plugin that allows users to choose one of our videos by clicking a custom TinyMCE button. But the underlying functionality and the highly configurable admin settings are really great.
From what I understand, the Viper plugin is being subsumed into the WP core for the 2.9 release.
While it doesn't necessarily cater to you to hosting the videos on your server, it makes embedding videos from video hosting sites like YouTube to your blog posts suuuper easy and it adds a very nice button to TinyMCE. So far it has been fully compatible with the latest version of WPMU for me. I believe it accepts quite a few video hosting services id types and even allows you to add custom ones, which could be a workaround if you were trying to host videos on your server.
I also like that it makes embedding videos into the sidebar easy and even allows multiple instances of different videos in the sidebar.
I use Youtube as the original reference point for my video uploads and I advise my blog users to do the same. Upload your videos to Youtube, then feed them to your Facebook, into your blog (with the plugin above), and from your blog you feed your RSS and Twitter.
Another selling point of this method for me is if you are on a cloud, not having large videos being uploaded and served saves a lot of money and sapce...and I don't think YouTube is going anywhere anytime soon. The only limitation of YouTube is the 10 minute limit of course.
The Vipers Video Quicktags plugin looks like the type of thing that would work perfectly for me, as we are showing indie films and we cannot upload these to sites such as Youtube for legal reasons.
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I would think that would be a good thing actually to strip the tags. Would rather see those folks clciking through to see the post. (and whatever adverts therer are found in there.)
I bet it's because the filter name is the same as the function name. Doh!
Try changing the filter from 'post_indexer_strip_content' to 'post_indexer_strip_content_filter'. If that works for you I'll update the plugin with the same edit.
Seems to work ok for me. Are you by any chance using WPMU 2.9.1? If so make sure you're not affected by the dreaded "I'm using 2.9.1 and can't edit/publish posts" issue.
No misunderstanding. I added a filter (as in "plugin api") so that you could add in a plugin to remove the vipers video quicktags. Basically the filter will allow you to strip those tags without having to edit the post indexer every time a new version is released.
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Erstwhile founder — 17th December 2009 #
Hiya,
AMP stands for Anarchy Media Player. We really don't recommend using that plugin though as it's a bit of a resource hog.
I'm curious to see what other members use on their site(s).
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 17th December 2009 #
Video plays a very important role in our WPMU implementation - and having looked nearly every possible way to work with video, Vipers Video Quicktags plugin is hard to beat. It provides simple shortcodes - and TinyMCE integration - for a large number of video hosting services (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and support for FLV, QuickTime and other formats.
Our implementation is unique in that we have a large library of FLV video hosted on the Akamai network. We made some modifications to the Viper plugin that allows users to choose one of our videos by clicking a custom TinyMCE button. But the underlying functionality and the highly configurable admin settings are really great.
From what I understand, the Viper plugin is being subsumed into the WP core for the 2.9 release.
FWIW.
Member — 17th December 2009 #
I use this:
http://denzeldesigns.com/wordpress-plugins/video-sidebar-widgets/
While it doesn't necessarily cater to you to hosting the videos on your server, it makes embedding videos from video hosting sites like YouTube to your blog posts suuuper easy and it adds a very nice button to TinyMCE. So far it has been fully compatible with the latest version of WPMU for me. I believe it accepts quite a few video hosting services id types and even allows you to add custom ones, which could be a workaround if you were trying to host videos on your server.
I also like that it makes embedding videos into the sidebar easy and even allows multiple instances of different videos in the sidebar.
I use Youtube as the original reference point for my video uploads and I advise my blog users to do the same. Upload your videos to Youtube, then feed them to your Facebook, into your blog (with the plugin above), and from your blog you feed your RSS and Twitter.
Another selling point of this method for me is if you are on a cloud, not having large videos being uploaded and served saves a lot of money and sapce...and I don't think YouTube is going anywhere anytime soon. The only limitation of YouTube is the 10 minute limit of course.
Cheers
Member — 17th December 2009 #
The Vipers Video Quicktags plugin looks like the type of thing that would work perfectly for me, as we are showing indie films and we cannot upload these to sites such as Youtube for legal reasons.
Member — 17th December 2009 #
i use viper. not bad so far
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 17th December 2009 #
Trying to go out the door so just a link:
http://www.daburna.de/blog/2006/12/13/wordpress-video-plugin/
Member — 17th December 2009 #
I'll check out that link.
Viper is great for .flv on my server and it doubles up as a great plugin, as my wife now has a simple way to add videos to her site.
She is no coder and just about manages with Wordpress in full wysiwyg mode.
Member — 18th January 2010 #
Vipers addon works great. However post indexer / recent global posts doesnt strip off the tags.
http://xpd.no/s/435-20100118-093146.jpg
Didnt get around to hacking it yet. Guess I need to edit this.
function post_indexer_strip_content($tmp_content){
$tmp_content = strip_tags($tmp_content);
return $tmp_content;
}
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 18th January 2010 #
I would think that would be a good thing actually to strip the tags. Would rather see those folks clciking through to see the post. (and whatever adverts therer are found in there.)
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
I could toss a filter into the post_indexer_strip_content() function if that would help?
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 18th January 2010 #
Yeah, that would be great. :)
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
Done. 1.0.7 is available for download.
Let me know if there are any problems.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 18th January 2010 #
Broken. Probably pasted some wrong function
function post_indexer_strip_content($content){
$content = strip_tags($content);
$content = apply_filters( 'post_indexer_strip_content', $content );
return $content;
}
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
Are you getting a particular error?
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 18th January 2010 #
Nope just hangs when I post. And doesnt update the frontpage
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
I bet it's because the filter name is the same as the function name. Doh!
Try changing the filter from 'post_indexer_strip_content' to 'post_indexer_strip_content_filter'. If that works for you I'll update the plugin with the same edit.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 18th January 2010 #
Nop. Still broken. Did you add a function for post_indexer_strip_content_filter. Didn't find any other diffs. Other than the version number
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
Nope, no other changes. Let me dig into it and see what's going on.
Thanks,
Andrew
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
Seems to work ok for me. Are you by any chance using WPMU 2.9.1? If so make sure you're not affected by the dreaded "I'm using 2.9.1 and can't edit/publish posts" issue.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 18th January 2010 #
2.9.1.1 fixed the whitescreen. However it still doesn't remove videos.
Think we might have had a misunderstanding. I'm trying to remove this:
http://xpd.no/s/685___localhost___fitneiqm_wpmu___wp_site_posts_%7C_phpMyAdmin_3.2.4-20100119-000813.jpg
Erstwhile founder — 18th January 2010 #
No misunderstanding. I added a filter (as in "plugin api") so that you could add in a plugin to remove the vipers video quicktags. Basically the filter will allow you to strip those tags without having to edit the post indexer every time a new version is released.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 19th January 2010 #
Ah, I see. Awesome. Wasn't aware how adding hooks worked. I'll write up a preg later on. Thanks!
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