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I downloaded the coolplayer plugin for word press. I originally found the description from here and then downloaded it from here. The download page is in looks to be Chinese with the exception of a couple of vague english instructions. I unzipped the file and copied the contents to my server in “wordpress/wp-content/plugins/”. Then I activated the newly installed plugin using the wordpress control panel under the “Plugins” tab. I thought that would be that, but this plugin doesn’t seem to handle the uploading of files by itself. It’s just a wrapper. There’s still a little code that needs to be dropped into the blogpost to make it work.

Although it enables you to embed a crap-load of video formats onto your page like youtube, google video and many more, for my purposes, I just want to throw some phone vids up. So what I did was create a video folder on my server named “video” and then dropped the file in there via FTP. Afterwards I wrote up the direct path to that clip, like this “http://www.martoon.org/blog/video/011907coolplayertest2.3g2. That got wrapped inside the coolplayer brackets

< code >
< coolplayer width="176" height="156" autoplay="false" loop="false" >
http://www.martoon.org/blog/vid/011907coolplayertest.3g2
< /coolplayer >
< /code >

The width and height can be modified to any size you want. The autoplay feature and looping can be turned on and off by using “true” or “false”. So far, I tested it on my old mac in Firefox and Safari. It works in Firefox, but not so well in Safari, in fact, not at all in Safari. All I see is the static quicktime logo sitting there, all quiet, taunting me. If your on a windows machine, I’d like to know if you’re able to play the clip.