Have you ever wanted to simply add some video to a landing page in SharePoint? There are a lot of hefty applications out there that do this quite well, utilizing Silverlight and Ajax, but, did you know that you can do this with out of the box SharePoint? It's actually quite simple. Here's how!
- Upload a media file to a standard SharePoint Document Library
- Navigate to the site where you want to embed the video
- Edit the page and select Add a Web Part
- Under Miscellaneous, insert a Content Editor Web Part
- From the Web select Open the Tool Pane
- From Tool Pane, select Source Editor
Copy in the following code (replace http://link to video here with the actual link to the video in the library):
<div align="center">
<embed src="http://link to video here"
autoplay="true"
loop="false"
width="200"
height="200"
</embed>
</div>
<embed src="http://link to video here"
autoplay="true"
loop="false"
width="200"
height="200"
</embed>
</div>
Click Apply. Its just a matter of formatting after that!
