No, that is not possible. You can use oEmbed for some video sources, but for your own video you have to decide what a player you want to use. That’s exactly what plugins are for. There is no point in avoiding using them. Update In WordPress 3.6 support for native audio and video was added. … Read more
From the looks of it, you aren’t echo-ing the do_shortcode function, which you should. Try this: <?php echo do_shortcode(”); ?>
When you work with jwplayer you need to make sure you- Check the supporting file documentation http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12539/supported-video-and-audio-formats If you are using anything other than mp4 its fine. If you are tying to play mp4 files and you are having problem with it (video not playing before it fully loaded) you must swap the index of … Read more
I did worked with the plugin YAPB (also possible with standard WordPress thumbnail but needs bit of code moding) and used this setting in the arrays of JW player. It might be not fully automated but you can control your introduction image. <?php if ($post->image): ?> ‘image’: ‘<?php echo $post->image->getThumbnailHref(array(‘w=400′,’h=276′,’q=95′,’zc=1′,’fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3′)) ?>’, <?php else: ?> ‘image’: … Read more
Yes, seems that viddler changed their oembed endpoint, and the redirection from the old one is stripping the maxwidth. I made a core ticket about the issue: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24296
How to play amazon S3 videos in wordpress 3.6?
oEmbed not working in WordPress
Can this function be used to read the metadata on my videos hosted on Amazon S3, basically can this function be used for external video and audio? I don’t think so. The WordPress code uses the PHP function file_exists() which doesn’t say it cannot check external files. The ID3 code, however, tries to determine the … Read more
In general, streaming video directly from your site isn’t advised. You can increase Max Upload size by making edits in php.ini or .htaccess, but your visitors may experience significant buffering, or even worse, extended page load times. You should consider having the videos stream from S3 or one of the hosted services.
It will be interesting to see how the new evolving WP Gutenberg editor will handle shortcodes and embeds. If you use the shortcode for embedding, then a semi workaround, without UI support: where the custom desc attribute is supported with with this kind of wrapper: add_filter( ’embed_oembed_html’, function( $return, $url, $attr ) { if( ! … Read more