Help:Video

To embed a video, use the Embed Video extension.

Sites supported

As of version 0.1, EmbedVideo supports embedding video content from the following services:

• Dailymotion
• FunnyOrDie
• Google Video
• sevenload
• Revver
• YouTube

Usage

Precede the site name with #ev.

The EmbedVideo parser function expects to be called in either of the following ways:

• {{#ev:site|id}}
• {{#ev:site|id|width}}

Whereas:

• service is the name of a video sharing site.
• id is the id of the video to include
• width (optional) is the width in pixels of the viewing area (height will be determined automatically)

For example:

{{#ev:youtube|dMH0bHeiRNg|100}}

To embed a YouTube video, for example, one uses the format below:

{{#ev:youtube|T69TOuqaqXI}} (The code T69TOuqaqXI is the unique identifier for the YouTube video)

This produces the video on screen:

To embed as a thumbnail:

{{#ev:youtube|T69TOuqaqXI|100}} produces:

Examples for how to embed videos from all six services are given at the extension's project homepage.

A quick plea

Whilst this extension is fun and can be used for a great many things, it is also time consuming for the server's CPU and for a user trying to open a page with videos on it. Also consider that both the site and a person browsing have to pay for bandwidth. Please use sparingly.

See also

• Template {{video}}
• Template {{youtube}}