Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A

Anyone know how to embed and play videos in a wiki page? We don't have SP 2010 with the media player webpart.

Thanks!!
Dave

Hrmmm... I've thought enough about how to answer this question. It simply depends...

It depends mainly on what you want to do. Do you want to have multiple videos on demand or just one? What type of media are you looking to embed? There's a few more questions that I have, but these would be a good starting point.

Let me know these answers and I'll steer you in the right direction.

Matt,
Thanks for tackling my question. We only allow swf videos to be placed in SP. Per company policy all other formats are stored outside of SP and we link to them for playing.

We would like for people to play an swf video directly from a wiki page. A video box would be displayed and all the user has to do is hit the start button.

For the most part I would guess that there would only be one video per page. But there could be more than one.

Thanks!!
Dave

There are many ways to embed video directly into your website and alternatively many other files can be embedded as well. Check out my Document Dashboard demo for some more ideas:

http://spdwiki.com/SitePages/DocumentDa ... x?docUID=2

While the XSL template doesn't specifically handle .swf files, you can embed these into your page. In wiki pages on 2010, there is an option to Edit HTML. This option is located on the far right of the ribbon and only appears while editing the page. Once you are editing the HTML directly, you can add the embed code for your .swf file.

To use this code, you'll need to update the filename to the appropriate URL.

There are some things to consider using this. If you are going to possibly need multiple videos to be played on the fly, then I would look at using http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ or follow my example to build your own "Youtube". Either way works, just depends on your target audience and the level of control you have over the users' browser(s). If you are unfamiliar with how to use either approach, I would start small and use the code sample provided above. When you get oooh's and ahhh's, then you can ramp up your development for a more advanced "Youtube".

Matt,
I was able to enter the code and the player appeared while in edit mode. It even played while in edit mode. However, when I saved the page, the code disappeared. Any suggestions?

Dave

Hrm.... That's a bit odd, however, there are always workarounds. :D

Let's try both of these techniques:

CEWP (Content Editor Web Part)
HTML Form Web Part

Both of these will allow you to add HTML to your page. One of these should work. If not, let me know and I'll test it on my own 2010 wiki playland.

Matt,
I tried a CEWP and the HTML part. Both worked. I found the HTML to easier to use. The CEWP required several extra steps. One last question. The ability to make the screen fullsize did not work. How can I get that to work?

Thanks for your help!! Our users will be very happy to have this capability.

Dave

For complete control over your control (no pun intended), you'll probably want to use the swfobject I referenced earlier or write your own XSLT to handle the control like the Doc Dashboard demo. I'm assuming full screen isn't working currently b/c you're code lives within the confines of the web part. A different coding approach may be needed...