How to Embed Facebook Videos on Web Pages

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Facebook Videos allows Facebook users to upload and share videos with their friends, with the ability to tag friends in the videos and video messaging support. Unlike other video hosting services such as Youtube, MetaCafe and Dailymotion, Facebook Videos is not meant as general video hosting site, but rather a social networking site with photo and video support. As a result, embed code is not available generally. Only owners of videos have the rights to view the embed code which can be placed on website or blog for direct viewing on out-of-Facebook space.

There may be time where you may want to embed a video uploaded by someone else on Facebook on a site, blog or forum, especially for videos that are interesting or closely related to topic or subject on discussion. It’s possible to direct visitors to Facebook to view the video, but further annoyance is that whoever wants to view the video must login to Facebook, or sign up for one account if haven’t got one. Though extremely popular, not everybody wants to register for Facebook account or want to sign in to Facebook just to view a video.

Here’s simple trick on how to embed Facebook Videos on any web pages. Presented below is generic embed code on Facebook Videos, which can be used embed any video on Facebook to add the video for direct viewing on web page, blog or community forum, subject to privacy settings.

How to Embed Facebook Videos on Web Page

Firstly, check if the Embed this Video link is offered for the video. The link is located to the bottom right of video.

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How to Enable Subtitle When Playback Matroska MKV with Embed SUB

Matroska Multimedia Container (MKV) is a free, versatile, and open standard container file format which can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file, especially for HD (high definition) media contents. Quite a lot of video files in .mkv format now embed subtitles within the file itself, eliminating the need to search and download external subtitles.

The MKV may have not only one subtitles. Sometimes, a MKV video file may have encoded with two or more subtitles. The subtitles in MKV can be extracted to common formats such as ssa, idx, sub or srt. However, a separate subtitle file will defeat the purpose of embedding of subtitles inside the MKV container. The subtitles embedded in Matroska MKV video media can be turned on, enabled, showed and displayed automatically on screen while playback.

Most users install CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) or Haali Media Splitter to play MKV files. CCCP includes DirectVobSub inside the codec pack, which is a DirectShow subtitle filter essential for rendering and displaying of subtitle captions on screen. For users who do not use CCCP or any other codec pack, and depends on standalone MKV codec such as Haali Media Splitter, users have to download and install DirectVobSub subtitle filter.

With proper codecs in place, Windows Media Player (WMP), Windows Media Center (WMC), Media Player Classic (MPC), ZoomPlayer and other DirectShow-based media player or video player show automatically launch the DirectVobSub (VSFilter) on playback of video file in MKV format with subtitle entitled.

Some media players and VSFilter versions does not cause Haali Media Splitter to auto load the VSFilter (DirectVobSub) on playing of MKV file. In the case, manually configure the Haali Media Splitter to auto load DirectVobSub. To do so, go to Start Menu -

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Embed PowerPoint presentations and Excel sheets in your Blog or Website

September 24th, 2010. Filed under:Office. Tags: Blogging, Excel, PowerPoint
Apart from making Office Web Apps available in 7 more countries, Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland, in addition to  US, UK, Canada, and Ireland, Microsoft today introduced a new feature whereby you can now embed PowerPoint presentation or Excel spreadsheet in a blog or website.

The following embedded PowerPoint presentation walks you through the actual steps for embedding a PowerPoint presentation or Excel file in a blog post:

This will allow your visitors to view a page through a mini version of the slides or view in full screen. For example, you might embed a PowerPoint presentation of photos from your last vacation, share slides from a lecture or talk that you enjoyed, or broadcast your knowledge of a special subject.

You can also embed Excel charts and data in a blog or website the same way.

Here’s an example of an embedded Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator, using the Excel Web App. Enter your own height and weight to find out your BMI:

Source: Office Blogs.

Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com & WinVistaClub.com.

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Embed Picasa web album into WordPress Sidebar

Picasa is one of the best photo sharing websites from Google. You can sign in to Picasa web album using Google account and add images, tag it, group it and share with your friends etc. Regarding picasa, on the past we had seen enough tools like importing albums to facebook, viewing it as automatic slideshow, bulk uploading etc.

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Picasa Widget WordPress plugin allows you to add picasa images on WordPress sidebar. It can display all your latest picasa images from the Picasa web album and display it on your WordPress blog sidebar. It displays the images as thumbnail from the gallery. You can make many adjustments to size as well as layout of the images.

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WP Flickr Plugin Embed Flickr Photos To WordPress Posts

Flickr, the largest photo sharing website where amateur to Pro photographers have an account. If you’ve interest in Photography, then you should have an account in it. It’s free. We had discussed a lot of Flickr tools such as displaying Flickr album inside facebook, Guiding you to buy camera’s with the help of Flickr and a lot more. Have a quick glance over the Flickr tools which we had covered, you can open it on a new tab and keep it for later read.

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WP-Flickr WordPress plugin allows you to embed Flickr images into WordPress blog posts. You can choose any of the standard sizes and then choose your image. You can also choose from any of your sets or directly from your public photo stream. It is easy to connect to your Flickr account and a simple way to add your photos to you blog. The title of your image automatically becomes the image alt text too.

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