Can’t play FLV in WordPress website [closed]

The things you have installed on your webserver have nothing to do with whether or not the client can play the video served by your server, that depends on what you implement on the client side. Besides that the FLV container format is becoming deprecated with the increased support of HTML5 and I wouldn’t recommend … Read more

Video shortcode outside WordPress not working with IE and mediaelement’s Flash fallback

I figured out the issue. I’m leaving the answer for future reference. Turns out IE needs you to include all the HTML tags for the video to load correctly when using flash. This is my working code now: <?php define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false); require(‘../wp-load.php’); echo ‘<!doctype html>’; echo ‘<html>’; echo ‘<head>’; echo ‘<meta charset=”utf-8″>’; echo ‘<title></title>’; echo … Read more

How does mediaelement.js work in WordPress?

WordPress core handles the enqueuing of the MediaElement.js scripts and styles automatically when the shortcode is used: From wp_video_shortcode()… /** * Filters the media library used for the video shortcode. * * @since 3.6.0 * * @param string $library Media library used for the video shortcode. */ $library = apply_filters( ‘wp_video_shortcode_library’, ‘mediaelement’ ); if ( … Read more