Self host and play video on wordpress?

[coop99]

can anyone explain or point me to something that will allow me to self host and play videos on my wordpress site?

I don't want to embed from youtube or video sites like that. I want the video self hosted, but can't seem to figure out how to host and play a video.

 

[webso]

You need to have streaming services enabled host with "flow player" plugin to enhance wordpress do that.

 

[coop99]

How do you enable streaming services?

 

[webso]

How do you enable streaming services?

Ask your host about it.

 

[wkirk]

Use the flowplayer plugin mentioned above.

You don't necessarily need to contact your provider, add these to your htaccess:

AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
AddType video/x-m4v .m4v

Extend the list as needed.

Try this and post the results.

 

[coop99]

There are a bunch of plugins with the name FlowPlayer in them. Can someone link to the one you are talking about?

 

[webso]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/screenshots/

 

[ScripterAlex]

I am using the MediaElement player, its HTML5 based so will work on non-flash browsers too They have a wordpress plugin and its easy to use with shortcodes for embedding videos. Don't do this on shared hosting, really, just don't. Need a VPS or better to stream video. Youtube is easy to embed if you can't afford to host your own videos.

 

[Zuckerberg]

I use JW player. You can self host your own videos and embed them with the JW player plugin .