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Help:Video
To embed a video, use the Embed Video extension.
Sites supported[edit]
As of version 0.1, EmbedVideo supports embedding video content from the following services:
Usage[edit]
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:
serviceis the name of a video sharing site.idis the id of the video to includewidth(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[edit]
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.