I don’t think I’m the first person to post a blog with an embedded video only to not have the video migrate over to the Clubhouse. I thought I knew just what to do after reading the How To section on embedding videos at http://clubhouse.microsoft.com/howto/include-video. However, there is one small piece of VERY useful information that I glossed over without paying too much attention because I thought to myself, “Hey, Windows Live Writer will take care of this for me.” Well short answer, I was WRONG.
So for everyone who’s blogged and included a video here is the key piece of code that your missing resulting in the absence of your video.
<a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=xxxxx" rel="clubhouse video">My Video</a>
This line of html code must go directly above your video. No you might say, “Well how do I do that?” Good question that has a simple enough answer. In Windows Live Writer there are three views: Edit, Preview and Source. Most of the time you won’t require the use of Source, but this is one of those times you will.
The Edit view below is what most of us are familiar with.
We need to see the Source View as shown below. (Not the prettiest view... seems like we could get some Visual Studio® color guys!)
So let’s begin by inserting a video from TekZilla hosted on YouTube… (I just realized that I really hope this works or I’ll have a little egg on my face when this is over.)
Notice that just before the video I have a link to the video being displayed. It is this hyperlink along with the rel=”clubhouse video” that’s important. ( I guess maybe we don’t need the Source view after all unless we just want to check that the code is displayed properly.)
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this works! The hyperlink added looked like this:
And to verify the code…
Well that’s about it. Just got to publish it and allow nature to take its course. Let’s hope this works or it’s back to the drawing board for me. Till next time…
