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3 Easy Ways to Embed Video in Blog

Richie Sajan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:29:17 +0000

Online video industry is skyrocketing. Millions of people watch YouTube and Vimeo daily. Top blogs have video sections with how-to video guides, editor’s video picks or video screencasts. These videos prove to be a great way to make a popular blog. Beautiful, appealing videos featured in a blog may bring lots of new visitors.

However, to embed a video properly is a complicated task for a novice webmaster. On the one hand, a blog owner need to deploy correct video HTML code. On the other hand – there so many techniques how to embed a video on a blog so it’s hard to make the best choice. Let’s look at the easiest 4 ways to embed video in a blog:

Free Video Converter

Free Video Converter by Freemake is a video freeware that helps to convert video to SWF or FLV format and to embed the resulting video to your blog. The process is simple: select a video, convert and check the “embed video to my web page” box. After the conversion, copy and paste the automatically generated code to your web page, upload the video to you server and enjoy unique video on your blog. Free Video Converter is a suitable tool for those who prefer less HTML coding and immediate results. Link to download.

HTML5 Video Embedding

HTML5 is a great standard for video playback directly in browsers. Latest versions of Chrome, Mozilla Firefox support HTML5 video. The advantage of HTML5 coding is that a video can be watched on any device: PC, Mac, iPad, Android, etc. However, this way is useful for advanced webmasters.

The process is the following: convert your video to all popular video formats like: mp4, swf, ogg or webm. Upload all videos to server. Put a code structure like the one below between. Don’t forget to test the quality of the video and watch it in various browsers.

Here is a sample HTML5 code:

DOCTYPE HTML>

mp4″ type=”video/mp4″ />
webm” type=”video/webm” />

Your browser does not support video

Video LightBox

Video LightBox is a Java script application that allows you to play video in a fancy pop-up window. If you want to create a custom video player for your blog, then LightBox will do its job. The process is pretty easy: add a video, choose a video player style, upload a video file to server and publish a new video on your blog. The software has free and paid versions so each blogger may benefit from Video LightBox. Here is a little how-to video guide about LightBox.

Author Bio

Victoria Kushner is a blogger and social media specialist. She writes about popular multimedia apps and takes an active part in their promotion in social media.

Best Way to Download YouTube Videos as MP3s

Richie Sajan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:09:02 +0000

YouTube no doubt has THE most comprehensive collection of videos on the internet. And the most popular types videos are of course, music videos. Be it legendary bands to newbies, all kinds of musicians have their wares uploaded up there. So what if you want to download only the mp3 version of the video? Here’s a simple tip.

Just head over to Youtube-Mp3.org. Here, it’s as simple as 1-2-3:

Enter the URL of the YouTube video
Click on the Convert Video button
Click on the generated

Check out the video below for a demo:

YouTube-Mp3 also provides add-ons for Firefox and Chrome, which you can install and easily download the mp3′s of any video. You may download the add-ons from here.

Play Snake Game in YouTube Video Player

Richie Sajan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:29:20 +0000

The snake game, often seen in many Nokia mobiles, is one of the most common games and I’m sure many of you might have played it and loved it as well. The YouTube player has a clever Easter egg that allows you to play this game in the video player itself. Read on.

To play the game, make sure the video player has focus (just click on the player or video to do this). Now just press and hold the left arrow key and BINGO! a snake game starts out of nowhere.

Do note, that for this game to work, the video mustn’t have any ads or annotations. Here is a video which you may use to have a demo of this feature.

Bonus Tip: You can also play the snake game in Gmail, by enabling the lab’s feature called ‘old Snakey’.

2 Cool Ways to Explore Youtube

Richie Sajan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:53:50 +0000

YouTube is a website that you must be visiting at least once everyday. And why not, it’s got millions of videos which are informative, fun and just simply great! In fact recent studies show that, people spend at least 15 minutes of their online time at YouTube. And here’s two ways to explore it with even more fun.

Well here are the two interfaces. For the better experience, press F11 key on your keyboard right now, before going to the YouTube site. By doing, so you’re making your browser go full-screen.

Leanback
It’s a great interface, that begins playing videos automatically in full screen. Videos play in non-ending fashion (when one video ends, the next one starts). You can use your keyboard to navigate through and search and explore other videos. Keyboard keys used are: up, down , right, left arrow keys and Enter key.
XL
A similar interface to the leanback, it gives more control to the user. At the same time it does lose some of the glossiness and style you would get in the former mode.

These interfaces are more what you may call as prototypes intended for use, when Google TV will be eventually launched. You will need to login to your Google/YouTube account to use the above features.

Bonus Tip: For people with slower connections, you might try using YouTube Feather beta. It provides a faster interface than the normal YouTube site.

Like FarmVille? Don’t Watch this Video then

Richie Sajan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:07:42 +0000

FarmVille undoubtedly is a great game, having a huge fan base. It’s basically a game that is played on Facebook, where you have to cultivate and maintain your own farm. Personally though I’ve found it quite boring, and it seems that even the author of this video seems to share the same opinion. Watch it, it’s funny and simply great!

Surely a great video from Youtube user Toby Turner (@tobyturner). You can also watch a similar Mafia Wars parody by the same user, by clicking here.

Note there is a video embedded in this post. If you cannot see it, please click here to view the video on Youtube.