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I've got a requirement to embed video on out intranet site. I've tried following the instructions here: http://community.office365.com/en-us/blogs/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/09/26/hosting-and-embedding-video-with-sharepoint-online.aspx

My insert tab on the ribbon doesn't have a gadgets are. How do I enable this? Is it a 3rd party add-on I'm missing or something I need to enable in config?

This blog gives another way of doing it: http://www.bfcnetworks.com/embed-youtube-and-other-code-into-sharepoint-2010/ but that seems like an incredibly convoluted way of putting an iframe on a web page.

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This link gives simple instructions in how to embed video in a SharePoint page:

http://msfarmer.blogspot.in/2009/05/embedding-video-on-your-sharepoint-site_13.html

So the major heavy lifting will be done by the <embed> tag:

   <embed src="http://link to video here"
      autoplay="true"
      loop="false"
      width="200"
      height="200">
   </embed>
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  • That works fine on out internally hosted 2007 site but on the 2010 online version you only get the rich text editor, not the HTML editor.
    – Ben
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 11:10
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    When you add the Content Editor Web Part to the page: 1) Go to Edit WebPart 2) Go to 'Editing Tools' tab 3) Go to 'Format Text' sub tab. 4) In the Markup ribbon Group, you will find the HTML ribbon button. You can edit the html of the Content Editor WebPart from there.
    – Vardhaman Deshpande
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 12:17
  • If I use embed or iframe tags in there I get: "Warning: The HTML source you entered might have been modified." and it renders blank.
    – Ben
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 12:38
  • Save it and then refresh the page.
    – Vardhaman Deshpande
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 13:04
  • After several save+refreshes it eventually worked! Thanks.
    – Ben
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 15:27
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In addition to embedding YouTube video using ContentEditorWebPart web part, I recommend to take a look on different approaches as described below.

Store embedded video properties in Custom List

The main idea is to store embedded video properties and not the embedded code itself. For storage Custom List named Video Links is used. Custom List is based on OOTB Links List. Resulting page for Video Links list (default view with embedded player) looks like shown below

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Store embed code in Custom List

This approach allows to save embed code in Custom List as it was generated. For displaying video player Computed Field is used.

Additional features:

  • Support for different video providers listed in oEmbed specification
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  • Alternative mode for posting the embed code for video into SharePoint. It is possible now to copy the embed code as it was generated by Provider and paste it into SharePoint enter image description here enter image description here

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Aggregate video from RSS/Atom feeds

This solution allows to display videos from YouTube Feed. For rendering video content RSSAggregator web part is used.

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