Cute puppy!My brother was just trying to embed a cute dog video in his tumblr blog yesterday but couldn’t figure out how to do it. The video was already in flash format, so it really isn’t too hard, but 99.99% of mere mortals have no idea that it’s easy. If you’re tech savvy, save yourself reading anymore and just go to any youtube video, copy the embed code, and replace the URLs with your own. Done. Otherwise, here’s how to do all that in just a few easy steps.
I. The Culprit: This cute puppy (coral).
II. The Goal: Embed that cute puppy in a tumblog.
III. The Method: Ever embedded a YouTube video? It’s really easy. You just go to the video (for example, this video of a crappy subwoofer getting mauled by a vastly overpowered amp) and then copy the “embed” code from the info box to the right:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OvQcAr8Z6Kg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OvQcAr8Z6Kg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Paste that into a normal webpage, or your wordpress blog’s HTML editing view, and you get something like this:
Wonderful! But what about our cute puppy, or ANY random flash video? Basically, you’re just going to use the <embed></embed> html tag. Better yet, put it this way: in the above code, you have to change BOTH instances of ‘width’ and ‘height’ to the width and height you want for the end video. In this case, I’ll leave them, since they work fine. The only other thing you have to do is replace the ‘youtube.com’ URLs with the URL of the video you want to imbed. In my brother’s case, the URL is http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf. Therefore, the end result looks something like this:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Copy and paste that into the “code” or “HTML” view of your blog or webpage and you’re good to go:
“…so it really isn’t too hard, but 99.99% of mere mortals have no idea that it’s easy…” So if I still can’t figure it out, does that make me part of the 99.99% that have no idea or the .o1% who will never get it?” Never mind, I can see the Doggie slobbering and have no desire to forward it to anyone else….