12.27.2005

Embed Google Video

My friend had a little question for me about taking advantage of Google's great new service, Google Video. He wanted to put his DVD snippets on his myspace account. So with a little googling, I was about to help him out. Here are the condensed instructions.

<embed src="YOUR SRC HERE" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="325"></embed>

YOUR SRC is the google player source. To find this easily, follow the instructions below.

1. Open up video URL in Firefox or Mozilla
2. Get Page info (Tools > Menu > Page Info ⌘I)
3. Click Media Tab
4. Find Object with http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf and click on it
5. Copy it, now you can paste it in the source code given as the src attribute in the emded tag
6. You can always view the source of this page to see as well.
7. If you want the video to not start automatically, in the source url, remove '&autoPlay=true'

For longer instructions with pictures, check out this this article.