Embed our video on your site

Posted by Stokes Young on Monday, January 07, 2008 12:48 PM PT

NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk embedded with Marines in Fallujah last week. Starting later today, you'll be able to embed her report (or any other msnbc.com video clip) on your blog or site, like this:

Click the "Embed" button above to see how it works. Just copy the code to your clipboard and paste it where you want it, and you're good to go.

We also have a few more video updates. Some of you have asked how to use the MSN Video player instead of ours to view our clips. Here it is: http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc.

Still coming for our new video player are search, rollover caption bubbles and some performance tweaks. Thanks to everyone for your feedback on the new player.

 We read every mail and post, and continue to work diligently to improve your viewing experience.

Update: Thanks to Andy over at beet.tv for his post: http://www.beet.tv/2008/01/broadcast-journ.html. He notes that he's unable to resize the embeddable player, and he's right. We decided to come out the gate at 425x339, without a scaling function. We will offer that functionality in a future release.

 

Comments

I tried to click on the link for the live videos today, and they do  not work on a Mac. The new video format does work on Macs quite well. Will the live video?

Jeff (Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:59 PM)

Jeff, thanks for your question. The answer is yes--we're aiming to have live video play in our main player by the end of the month.

Stokes Young (Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:57 AM)

Unfortunately, your code seems to ignore the fact that my browser has Flash Player 9 installed and continues to ask me to update Flash. I'm using webkit via NetNewsWire and Safari.

Rick H. Central Tx (Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:43 PM)

If you are having problems, please first make sure you are using the most recent version of Flash (even if you have Flash 9, there are newer updates that fix certain bugs) which you can download for free here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Also, you may need to restart your computer for things to install completely. (We know that in Safari, specifically, that after you upgrade Flash it will behave as if it's not installed at all, and restarting has fixed the problem in many cases.)

Ben Tesch (Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:47 PM)

I will try putting some videos on my portal regularly. Let me create a channel of msnbc. Am I allowed to do that?

Ravi Kamdar (Monday, January 14, 2008 1:45 PM)

I'm a loyal MSNBC watcher and would love to be able to do this, but I could only post it in the sidebar of my blog (I use Blogpsot).  Any word on when you might bring the size down a bit to enable that...?  Thanks!

Tim Merrill, Hollywood, CA (Friday, January 25, 2008 5:08 PM)

I'm an msnbc.com fan, and I can't embed the video because it's IFRAME.  Will you be adding an embed for flash soon?

Also, when is MSNBC going to offer MSNBC TV Live online?  I do not have access to MSNBC at work or when I go to New York or Baltimore.  Would love it if I could open my laptop or PDA and have instant access to MSNBC Live.

Andy Marquis, Waldorf, MD. (Monday, January 28, 2008 8:53 AM)

Please take note - - When you have two monitors, and move the video player to the second monitor and go full screen, it presumes the resolution (the size to display the full screen video) is the size of the first monitor even though it plays on the second monitor.  In my case, the first monitor resolution is a little larger (22" widescreen) than my second monitor (a 19" widescreen) and the result is the playback in full screen on the second monitor is skewed to the right and the video is cut off on the bottom.

Rob Wilkens, Levittown, NY (Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:33 AM)



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