How to embed FLV video into WordPress
March 16th, 2010
There are times when you need to include a video on your site. Now while it is
simple enough to embed a Youtube video onto your page sometimes the video you want isn’t on youtube, or maybe it’s one of your own videos that your don’t want to make available to casual browsers.
That’s when FLV plugin from Jeroen comes in handy.
You just download and activate the plugin, then insert a simple shortcode wherever you want the video to appear.
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, ie. a front cover for the video. This can be any image you want and can even be uploaded to a different location. By default the poster frame is set to off, you turn it on via the options in the plugin settings.
Without poster frame
The poster frame feature is turned off by default.
Example input shortcode:
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 shortcode: (Exactly the same as without poster frame!
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