How to embed a video into Instructables

Step 2 Embed a video from Blip.tv

To embed a video from blip.tv, first upload a video to you blip account. Blip.tv automatically creates a flash version of any video you upload. The conversion can sometimes take a minute, so wait until it finishes or else you won't be able to embed the correct code.

Once you have a .flv version of your video available, click on the "share" button below your video. A windows will open up in the tab below. Select "MySpace" from "Where do you want to put the video."

Scroll down to where it says "Copy the HTML below to paste into MySpace".

The embed is the long line of text that starts immediately after the letters:

src="

Copy everything after the first quotation mark including, but not beyond the extension:

.flv 

So Blip.tv gives you the entire embed of:

<embed wmode="transparent" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/blipplayer.swf?autoStart=false&file=
http://blip.tv/file/get/InstructablesTV-CanKnifeOpen517.flv%3Fsource
%3D3" quality="high" width="320" height="240" name="movie"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"pluginspage=
"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

but the part that the instructable needs is only:

http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/blipplayer.swf?autoStart=false
&file=http://blip.tv/file/get/InstructablesTV-CanKnifeOpen517.flv

If you paste that text into the video field on instructables, ie, this:

[[Video(http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/blipplayer.swf?autoStart=false&file=http://blip.tv/file/get/InstructablesTV-CanKnifeOpen517.flv, {width:320, height:240})]]

• note, there should be no line breaks in the above code, so if you just copy & paste, make sure it is all on one line without any spaces.

you should get a nice flash version of the player and video like this.