Tuesday, February 22, 2011

How to embed video in sharepoint

Embedding Video On Your SharePoint Site
Have you ever wanted to simply add some video to a landing page in SharePoint? There are a lot of hefty applications out there that do this quite well, utilizing Silverlight and Ajax, but, did you know that you can do this with out of the box SharePoint? It's actually quite simple. Here's how!


Upload a media file to a standard SharePoint Document Library

Navigate to the site where you want to embed the video

Edit the page and select Add a Web Part

Under Miscellaneous, insert a Content Editor Web Part

From the Web select Open the Tool Pane

From Tool Pane, select Source Editor

Copy in the following code (replace http://link to video here with the actual link to the video in the library):







Click Apply. Its just a matter of formatting after that!

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