MTV.com offering videos you can embed
Michael Gay August 24th, 2007
I happened to surf to mtv.com today to look at some of the VMA content and realized that Overdrive had been completely changed and was no longer a pop-up video player. While that’s great news, what is even better is that the videos on mtv.com are now able to be embedded on external websites!
Are there any local news websites that let people embed their videos? I don’t know of any offhand, but I’m hoping you will and can share with us.
PS - If you haven’t seen that video by Brad Paisley called “Online,” you might get a laugh out of it. Anyone who has tried to meet someone online will relate.
11 Comments Add your own
1. Rob | August 24th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
We - KXLY.com in Spokane - allow people to embed our videos. We provide embedding and permalink options on our video player and also through our YouTube presence.
We’ve had mixed success with our internal solution since we’re using WMV for streaming and we’ve had some issues with the embed code and WMV. We’re hoping to shift over to FLV since it seems to be more conducive to this kind of use. That option is in Beta now.
In the meantime, we set up our YouTube page both to get more eyeballs to our content and provide people another embed option in the FLV format to share our content.
2. Alexander | August 25th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Unfortunately, “VIDEO NOT ACCESSIBLE” and 20 seconds of blackness is everything that is embedded at the moment.
3. Dave | August 25th, 2007 at 9:28 am
We use Brightcove for our videos. We allow users to embed, email, link, etc., to all of our vides. NewsOK is a converged newspaper (The Oklahoman) and TV site (KWTV NEWS 9) in Oklahoma City. Like most sites, we’re making the push for increased video - from reporters with cams to building our own studio on the newspaper side for headlines and entertainment video.
4. amanda (somewhere in spok-a-loo) | August 25th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Hey Rob,
If you have someone over there who is Linux and PHP savvy…there’s a PHP application I found online and currently am setting up at work for converting videos off the avids to FLV without running them through Adobe’s converter. The app also has an option for embedding, linking, email, et cetera.
I can send details on the program when the site is finished if you want them
5. wral | August 26th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
WRAL.com also has video players and news tickers that you can embed in external websites
6. Dan | August 26th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Stereogun users complain that the new Overdrive doesn’t allow non-U.S. net users to watch embedded video.
stereogum-dot-com/archives/video/new-foo-fighters-video-the-pretender.html
7. liz | August 27th, 2007 at 7:07 am
We at the Cincinnati Enquirer just created an embeddable video player. Just go to Cincinnati.com to check it out.
8. Rick | August 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Dan–
Yeah, that is indeed the case with the MTV-embedded players. They apparently sniff IP addresses for a lot of stuff at MTVN, which leads to some odd things.
For instance, I get press releases from someone at MTV Canada, but none of the links work because we’re in the U.S.
9. Rob | August 27th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Amanda, Thanks for the heads up … I’ll drop you a line …
10. Dean Betz | August 27th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
We strongly encourage folks to embed our videos.
11. Olli | August 28th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Thanks for sharing this. I try to add some to Television@.Net. Sorry, I didn’t notice this URL-notice above…
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