Embeding MobileMe Videos

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October 5, 2008

One of the great advantages of apple products is their top to bottom integration and push-button ease of use.  I am constantly using the “publish to youtube” functionality in iMovie to get our content up on the web.  Unfortunately, we had some problems with somewhat inappropriate cross-promoted videos appearing at the end of ours.  As you can imagine, we had to devise a different way to share our content.  My solution? MobileMe.

I already had the account which made it just as easy to click “publish to MobileMe” as it was to click, “Publish to Youtube.”  But, we had a problem.  How to embed the content in our non-MobileMe site?  Insert the following code (with your information) and voila, embedded video!  So, without further adieu:

<embed width=”480″ height=”272″ bgcolor=”000000″ scale=”aspect” autoplay=”true” src=”http://web.me.com/username/_gallery/100010/videoname”></embed>

Pretty self explanatory.  To find the file name of your video just surf through your iDisk to /web/sites/_gallery/ and find the one that houses your video (that will also be the number you need to insert into the url after “_gallery”).

If you’d like to see how this code looks in a site, check it out here: unpretending.blogspot.com.

3 Comments

  1. Richard

    According to user ‘caw35slr’ on Apple Discussion forums, the code snippet should be:

    That works for me!

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  2. Richard
  3. Richard

    Looks like the comments won’t allow html chevrons:

    embed src=”http://web.me.com/UserID/_gallery/100999/ref.mov” width=”320″ height=”196″ scale=”aspect”

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