Self host and play video on wordpress?

coop99 · May 24, 2012

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 · May 24, 2012

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

coop99 · May 24, 2012

How do you enable streaming services?

webso · May 24, 2012

coop99 said:
How do you enable streaming services?

Ask your host about it.

wkirk · May 24, 2012

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 · May 24, 2012

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

webso · May 24, 2012

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

ScripterAlex · May 24, 2012

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 · May 24, 2012

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

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