I just finished a Wordperss site that had a similar need for playing video. I would recommend going the Youtube route. Youtube will handle hosting, file conversions and with iframe embedding you can be sure the most devices possible will see your videos. On the WordPress side of the equation, there are many helpful plugins … Read more
php-flvinfo and php-mp4info are php classes for reading flv and mp4 metadata. you could read it on the fly, or it may be possible to hook a save to get this info in the db somewhere.
Notes before What you’re asking for is a highly complex thing: Load next post after WP internal Data finished, played with some 3rd party player Load next post after YouTube player (javascript or ActionScript) finished The problem is not the redirect 1), but more how you want to know how & when to load the … Read more
I’d recommend using a custom post type to handle this. You can add the custom post type and set it to only accept the YouTube url as content. Then you can display the “most recent” post from this setup with a custom loop on your home page. Here are a couple other good resources to … Read more
I believe part of what you’re looking for is the WP_Embed class defined in wp-includes/media.php. It implements a framework for automatically replacing urls with the output of embed handlers. I’m afraid you’ll have to do the deeper research yourself (this was apparently introduces in 2.9.0, so documentation might still be thin). I doubt WordPress core … Read more
You could try mashing all the patterns together in one big regexp or and then doing a simple line by line parse of the content: function theme_oembed_videos() { global $post; if ( $post && $post->post_content ) { global $shortcode_tags; // Make a copy of global shortcode tags – we’ll temporarily overwrite it. $theme_shortcode_tags = $shortcode_tags; … Read more
Simply put ‘); But note that there is also caching involved (embedding results are saved to custom field of the post, otherwise it would need to make HTTP request every time) and you are likely breaking that, unless you are doing it inside loop and close to where it normally works. Maybe even then.
Not natively. You’d have to write some code to make it happen – there’s a nice pastebin function that provide the necessary code to do it. Edit (12/19/2011): Yep here’s how you can do this programmatically. Add the following two functions to your functions.php file and you should be good to go. The code has … Read more
You can use the oEmbed functionality baked into WordPress. Typically any video host on this list will return a thumbnail to you using oembed. Here is a list of default providers that WordPress uses for auto embedding in the content area. I’ve included non-video sources as well for the convenience of others. http://www.youtube.com/oembed http://blip.tv/oembed/ http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.xml … Read more