Joseph Calhoon

Embedded Video with Windows Live Writer

There's a plugin for Windows Live Writer that lets you embed YouTube and Google videos in your blog posts.  Courtesy of WindowsWriterPlugins version 1.0 is available for download at the aforementioned link.  The file is a DLL so you will need to manually put it into your Windows Live Writer/Plugins folder.

1) Download the video plugin by visiting WindowsWriterPlugins:

2) Find your Windows Live Writer install location:

3) Extract the downloaded EmbedVideo.dll into the Plugins folder:

4) Restart Windows Live Writer and there should be a button to allow you to add a video to your blog post:

5) Get the ID for the video you want to embed:
YouTube -
Google Video -
*note: Some google video IDs have a '-' in front of them; if that is the case you will need to take two extra steps.

6) Add the video using the ID:

You only need to do this if you are embedding a google video that has a dash before the ID, you may not need to do this in later versions.  After steps 5 and 6 do the following.


(Sorry for the pointless video here, I got sick of looking for something that might actually be worth watching that also has a dash before the ID.)

*7) View the post as HTML Code:

*8) Add a dash in the appropriate place:

Enjoy!

Print posted @ Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:28 AM