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A Quick Way To Post HD Video On Your Blog With VideoPress

14.10.09 by Jerome in Plugins, Tutorials

A Quick Way To Post HD Video On Your Blog With VideoPress

For anyone who is looking for an easy option to publish high definition video on your WordPress blog without depending on others like self hosted video services (like YouTube) look at VideoPress. Owned by Automattic it offers an awesome video service. Unfortunately it is not a free but for only $60 a year they will convert your video to the highest quality and give you a great video player making it really easy for anyone to embed the video on another WordPress blog, or on any other website.

VideoPress

How do I start?

Quickly register a free account on WordPress.com.  On the dashboard of your new Wordress.com account click the upgrade link and select the VideoPress add on for $60/year.

Your free account comes with 3GB of free storage but if you are planning to publish quiet a lot of videos, I recommend that you also purchase some extra storage (extra 5GB = $20; 15GB = $50; 25GB = $90).

When your purchase is done you can go back to your self hosted blog.  On your dashboard click on add a new plugin and search for the VideoPress plugin. When it’s all installed- create a new post and you will notice a new icon along the Upload/Insert tab.

How do I add a video to my post?

After clicking on the VideoPress’s icon you will be automatically synchronised with your Video library on your WordPress.com site.  Just select the video you want to publish.  In the video info window get the given shortcode and simply copy and paste into your post editor.

VideoPress

Shortcode setting option:

  • [videopress xyz w=640] specifies the width of video to be 640px, while preserving the aspect ratio.
  • [videopress xyz w=640 h=360] specifies both width and height
  • [videopress xyz h=300] specifies the height of the video to be 300px, while preserving the aspect ratio.

How to upload my video?

Simply click on the VideoPress’s icon and upload your video (Support mp4, mov, wmv, avi, mpg, m4v) and selec your video on your desktop with the browser uploader. The maximum video file size recommended is around 1GB.

Test the VideoPress player below:

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  • Wes
    how is videopress any different then other hosted (free even) services? are the videos stored on your own server? if so, why are we paying a yearly fee (subscription fee at all)? if they are being converted and hosted by videopress somewhere else then isnt that the same as youtube or vimeo? (minus the communities already on the other services that will only act to increase viewers)

    either it wasn't explained right or this doesnt seem like the best option for either self hosted or non-self hosted videos.

    i just re-read it again to make sure i didnt miss anything, and it appears we are paying for hosting of the files right, and can pay more for 'extra storage' so this isnt anymore self hosted then vimeo pro would be...

    again i just feel this isnt even close to being on the top 5 best options for displaying one's own videos on a wordpress blog.
  • Is there a way to post video without videopress? It's kinda expensive? Feel free to email me directly.
  • Wes
    you should also try vimeo, Revver, and blip.tv... they are free and do extactly what this service does... although for HD content vimeo makes you charge if you want more then 1 HD video a month, but SD is fine.
  • One of the cheapest ways that I recommend for short videos, is to use YouTube. Just upload your video and then embed it into your blog post. The down side is that your are limited with your video size- 2GB and the video can only be 10 minutes long max.
  • Bob P.
    It looks cool, but I wonder what the advantages are over video hosting services that don't charge. Any thoughts on that?

    What format video does this end up playing to the end user? Is it Flash? Just wondering what the plugin requirements are for viewers.

    Have you tried hosting/streaming your own videos, hosting them with the rest of your blog? How complicated is that? The more I think about this, the more I think maybe 60 bucks a year isn't too bad a deal.
  • Sounds awesome! Too bad you have to pay, though :(
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