Comments on: Embed FLV in MediaWiki – The Other Holy Grail

By: Andy Rush

Andy Rush — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:05:39 +0000

I currently have it working in a MediaWiki 1.10 install. I just did the upgrade and it didn’t break it. As far as I can see there is no limit on how many you put on a page. Let me remind people here that there may be better info on the authors’ websites. I also came across a new extension for video on MediaWiki called Kaltura. You can get the MediaWiki extension or a WordPress plugin at http://corp.kaltura.com/download .

By: Yannick

Yannick — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:17:16 +0000

I am experiencing a similar problem as Leonardo and Dough.

When embeding a single player on one of the wiki page, it plays that video. However, when adding a second player, the previous one shows the Download Flash Player link.

Updating my Flash Plug-in did not update this problem.

MediaWiki 1.10

If there is a limitation on how many players can be placed on 1 wiki page, how can this limitation be changed and how multiple players be added?

Thank you.

By: Andy Rush

Andy Rush — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:31:17 +0000

I’m using version 1.6.8 of MediaWiki

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:11:55 +0000

Sadly I’m having the same experience as Doug.
Would you mind telling us which version of Mediawiki you were using at the time of install… along with any other version numbers involved.

Doug, are you using fckeditor by any chance? I’d like to know what we have in common. I’m at Mediawiki 1.11

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:11:49 +0000

Sadly I’m having the same experience as Doug.
Would you mind telling us which version of Mediawiki you were using at the time of install… along with any other version numbers involved.

Doug, are you using fckeditor by any chance? I’d like to know what we have in common. I’m at Mediawiki 1.11

By: Andy Rush

Andy Rush — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:54:55 +0000

You can download the video that I use at:

http://www.umwdtlt.org/media/video/flv/web20.flv

The rest of the files are freely downloadable.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:23:45 +0000

I know this may sound silly, but, could I get copies of the file that you used for your video?

At least if I have the original files you used and it still doesn’t work then I know it’s something else I did and not the files.

Also, in your video you talk about a series of projects you did on working with wikis. Are there any links to those discussions? (I like my wiki but I’m sure it could be prettier)

Thanks again.

By: Andy Rush

Andy Rush — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:45:46 +0000

No thoughts right now Doug. I haven’t looked at it in a while, so I haven’t tried the updates. I’ll update if I come up with anything.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:12 +0000

Hmmm…I followed the instructions as carefully as I could. There are some new updates to the files since you’ve posted this, but other than that everything was the same.

And still I can’t get it to play nice. When I travel to my testing media page I get the “Download the player” link instead of my video.

Any thought?

By: theroades.com

theroades.com — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:30:44 +0000

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