I was poking around in WordPress and I noticed an option for adding media.
Hmm…
In the past when I added pictures to my blog I uploaded the picture to somewhere on my website then pasted in a link to it in my blog. It’s not that hard, but it’s enough steps that I rarely bother to do it. So, let’s see how hard it is to add in a video I made a few weeks ago using the new “Add media option”:
Click Here for Star Passing Video
That was easy enough to do, but the results weren’t too great. A dialog menu popped up asking for the file location and WordPress uploaded the file and created the link. Nice and easy. The downside is that it’s only a link and people have to click on the link to see the video. It would be nicer if the video were embedded right on the current page.
FYI, I uploaded that same video to YouTube a few weeks ago, but they compressed it quite a bit and the quality suffered a little. Here’s an embed of the YouTube video for comparison.
Of course, embedding a link to a YouTube video takes up almost no bandwidth on my website, and linking to my own video takes up a bit more than that. But, I looked at my terms of service with my web server, and if my 1 meg video gets watched more than 10,000 times in one day then my website could shut down, but I won’t get charged a bunch of money.
I think I can accept the risk.
