This is aimed at the folks that write here and it’s a pseudo announcement of yet another plugin. This time, the plugin is a modification of Kimili Flash Embed 1.1, which I’m releasing tonight as FatMixx Flash Embed 1.0. The rename is really just so that I can differentiate mine from his, and I’m hoping he incorporates my changes into his plugin so that I can simply use his instead of mine.

For FatMixx authors:

This plugin, which is active now on FatMixx, creates a new markup tag that will automatically embed the flash video players from Google or YouTube in one tag. This new bit of code looks like this:

The rest of the post explains how to get the URL to put into the movie attribute.

You can usually find the embedding URLs in the src or movie attribute of the embedding HTML that Google or YouTube or whatever provides. For example, if you see this code with Google (click the blue “Email-Blog-Post to MySpace” button, then click “Embed HTML” which appears under it):

YouTube is similar, though they have the URL in there twice (in the box called “Embed” to the right of the video):

You also need the sizes. Take those three pieces and put them together in the new tag like so:

I’m embedding these videos below: Cafferty on YouTube and the classic Internet is for Porn from Google Video

Cafferty on the torture bill

Code:

The Internet is for Porn

It’s safe for work, if you’re worried.

Code: