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February 3, 2006
Get Your Video Popups Here!
Update: Pete has added these files to EmbedTheVideo.com. Please go there and Embed The Video!
-- Feb. 5, 2006
I made this video popup maker thingie a while back.
It was going to be part of the Vlogging Hacks book that Jay, Ryanne, Michael, and I were writing for O'Reilly. Sadly, the book got cancelled and I pushed the project to the back burner. I never wrote about it here on this blog, but I did write about it on Unmediated. The reasons for using this approach are very practical. It preserves the direct link in the blog entry for services like FeedBurner, while also providing an embedded video experience that works in any browser.... including Internet Explorer.
I find myself writing a ton of similar emails to the Videoblogging List about this... whenever some issue comes up about embedded Quicktime, or Quicktime not working in IE (don't believe the rumors), I fire off a similar email that has now been enshrined by Pete on a newly christened domain, EmbedTheVideo.com. (Note to self: maybe I should actually keep a draft and copy-paste the text each time).
Some people have asked for the PHP code used in the popup window. Here it is:
Download popup.txt (rename it from .txt to .php)
You can simply copy and edit the page for the popup code generator since its all javascript/html. Simply "View Source" and copy the code to a new document:
http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker
It should work for any Quicktime or Windows Media videos... I never got around to adding support for Flash SWF, FLV, or RealPlayer, but it should be really easy to do. I just never took the time to do it. Ah, the lonely back burner.
Enjoy!
Posted by jkinberg at February 3, 2006 5:21 PM
Comments
Josh, the link to the code is executing, change it to the source and I'll get it online. :)
Posted by: Pete Prodoehl at February 3, 2006 6:23 PM
oops. fixed it.
Posted by: josh at February 3, 2006 6:31 PM
WOW!! I have to say this is pretty cool. I am pretty new to vlogging and this is a great idea, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!
Posted by: Heath at February 3, 2006 6:40 PM
Dude, you are my hero. Thank you so much for making the "oh-so-easy" wizard. As an artist I love the end results and loathe having to remember all that javastuff.
Posted by: Awed Job at February 4, 2006 1:43 PM
Dude, you are my hero. Thank you so much for making the "oh-so-easy" wizard. As an artist I love the end results and loathe having to remember all that javastuff.
Posted by: Awed Job at February 4, 2006 1:43 PM
Ok, I've got a copy running here:
http://embedthevideo.com/
Feel free to point people to it.
Posted by: Pete Prodoehl at February 5, 2006 6:48 AM
I was messing around with the pop up maker and I have noticed on my eariler posts at blip the pop up works fine does the whole fast start thing but....on my last couple of posts the pop up windlow comes up and nothing will play until the wholoe video loads.....am I doing something wrong? I am running a PC with XP on it.....just wondering.....
Posted by: Heath at February 5, 2006 7:33 PM
I quickly just hacked together a flash (swf) section here ---
http://www.krahne.com/popupmaker.htm
Posted by: Lance at February 7, 2006 9:15 AM
Ok, just added support for the .RM extension. Tested it seems to work. YMMV.
http://www.krahne.com/popupmaker.htm
Posted by: Lance at February 7, 2006 9:43 AM
How well does it work with mpegs? the same as quicktimes? I will have to check it out...
but let me know....aight
Posted by: Nick Schmidt at February 22, 2006 6:52 AM
Hello do you know how the website onsitevideos.com embeded a nice swf clip?
If you know about the code please, drop me an email.
Hey body, nice pics (a lot of love) congratulations!
Edward
Posted by: Edward at April 11, 2007 12:45 PM
I am the Founder of 
