Stumbled on embedded video problems

Seems that there are some issues around embedding certain video clips in this blog…

Live & Learn!

I’ll figure it out eventually, but for the time being I’ll just put the links to the videos in the blog, instead of the nicely convenient video clip actually being playable here.

I’ve tried several options over the past 3 hours and absolutely NONE of them worked.

Theoretically it’s supposed to be easy… except due to some kind of security reason (I know I don’t have the patience to read the diatribe about copyright infringement and internet security right now.) Only some kinds of videos are permitted.

The thing that I find amusing is that sites like CNN invite you to share their videos. They make it easy with a Share button.

WordPress strips out the nice <embed> tags effectively deleting the video without any warning.

As one poster said… WordPress is free so we really can’t complain. This does of course lead me to wonder about the unfree options and if I can load them in place of WordPress on my host providers servers.

That is an exploration for another time.

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