Personal tools

YouTube (or similar video hosting service)

You can create a free YouTube account, upload your video to YouTube, and then embed it seamlessly into your webpage. YouTube videos can be marked as ‘unlisted’ so that they don’t appear in YouTube search results and you can disable features such as commenting and rating.

Example

Below is an example of a video that is hosted on YouTube.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages Disadvantages
  • A robust and reliable video hosting service
  • High quality video delivery in various resolutions (including High Definition)
  • Videos are delivered as Flash video or HTML5 compatible format (currently the most accessible video format on the web)
  • Videos embed elegantly into web pages
  • Videos display consistently across all common web browsers
  • You can manage your own videos yourself
  • Detailed viewing statistics available
  • The University do not provide support for external services such as YouTube
  • The videos are not hosted on University servers

Videos hosted on YouTube (or similar video hosting service) cannot be saved to the viewers’ computer. This helps to prevent the video from being copied and/or redistributed but means that YouTube is not suitable for podcasting.

Embedding a YouTube video into a webpage

  1. Create a free YouTube account and upload your video to YouTube (Help with this is available on the YouTube website)
  2. View your video on YouTube
  3. Click the 'Share' button below the video
  4. Click the 'Embed' button
  5. Pick a size
  6. Un-tick the 'Show suggested videos when the video finishes' check box (optional)
  7. The default size of the video will most likely be too large for your Plone page so enter a width value for your video in pixels. Somewhere between 340 to 540 pixels will be suitable in most cases.
  8. Copy the embed code (right click on the embed code and select 'copy')
  9. Navigate to your Plone web page and login
  10. Click the 'Edit' tab to edit your page
  11. Click the HTML button to switch to code view
  12. Locate where you want your video to appear and paste in your code from youtube
  13. If you require the text on your page to wrap around the video you add the following attribute to the iframe element:
    class="image-right"
    or 
    class="image-left"
  14. Click the 'Save' button to save your page

If you are not familiar with editing HTML please contact IT Help (ithelp@le.ac.uk) before attempting to embed a video.

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