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How can I edit a video's embed code.

Posted by Robert McDougal Jan 7th 2014 Category: How to Questions

So I embeded some videos onto my site and they already have comments and a viewcount, but the video provider has discontinued my account and I need to use a temporary video hosting service for now and re-upload my older videos to another service, then edit the embed code, but I can't do that. Is there any way that I can? If not, I could pay a little extra, but currently all my videos are like this and don't play.

http://themcdougalbugle.com/videos.htm?a=&act=view-video&id=7DF7E795-4ADE-4618-B6DD-18464F6F37C2

Very frustrating for me and my viewers. Not Spruz's fault, but like I said, I don't want to delete all my videos Iv'e already posted and re-post, they were posted over the course of a couple years, the date's show when they were uploaded, have comments and the number of views. It'd be a lot better if I could just edit the embed code with a different video. Haven't uploaded my most recent videos because I don't have a secure video hosting service yet and as of now, won't be able to change the embed code. I don't think there is a way to chance it? But that would really help a lot if I could, somehow. Thanks.

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  • Posted by Squirrels Jan 9th 2014

    At this time Spruz does not allow to edit, embed videos codes on the Video Page.

    You can edit the title and move the videos into another category.

    Video embed codes added to html boxes can be edited.

    So if it can be edit in html boxes, I do not know why it cannot be edit on the video page.

    Maybe a feature not add to most Social Sites.

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  • Posted by Sarah Fan Jan 12th 2014

    The biggest Celebs and record labels post on YouTube, and link to them. I would follow their example. By running your links through Spruz, you are fighting the slowness of Spruz servers.You don't want to stream videos from your own server or you're going to be paying for the bandwidth. Let YouTube pay for it by their advertising.

    Check this page: http://www.ardentsouls.org/fan-wall.htm Shows how you can mass the links together. Also you can embed on a text page like: http://www.ardentsouls.org/we-swifties.html there is no scripting like Spruz, so the pages load immediately.

    You can also embed in a Spruz HTML Box or HTML Page like I have done it on http://www.ardentsouls.org/ .

    You have a lot of choices available.

    EDIT: By 'slowness of Spruz servers' I mean the time it takes them to respond to a mouse click in your browser. Sometimes they don't.

     

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  • Posted by Jan 12th 2014

    This is a big alarm bell that your video service is likely to fail in the future:

    http://support.blip.tv/entries/23007795

    Spruz's arbitrary removal of free sites is another alarm bell -- Take a hard look at where you're at right now. Here's the embed HTML:

    You can directly edit the iframe HTML but I don't know any way to save the edited page to Spruz without root access to their server. You would have to save the edited code to an HTML page on your site. This image may disappear in the future since Spruz's editor failed to upload it, and I had to save to one of my own servers.

    Since we will be eliminating our Spruz sites, saving it there was not an option either. So you can see from your page's HTML that the embed itself could be edited to reflect another video host.

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  • Posted by Sarah Fan Jan 12th 2014

    Another problem with Sruz's editors is that they log you out in the middle of a message, so the post has no author, and I can't get back in to edit the above post.

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  • Posted by Robert McDougal Jan 13th 2014

    "Since we will be eliminating our Spruz sites, saving it there was not an option either."

    Wait, Spruz sites will be eliminated? When?

    Thanks for the feedback. Iv'e switched video hosting sites. And I understand that it's not currently possible to edit a video's embed code or change the upload date. So is there a way I can send in a request for that to be an option, maybe as an upgrade benefit or something.

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  • Posted by Sarah Fan Jan 13th 2014

    I've said before that I think the design of the Spruz social site is brilliant. It's just that I am uncertain how their managers are going to cope with the future. I've cooled down a bit, and so have set no date for closing any of them. Spruz could shut down free sites anytime.

    The sites also support Taylor Swift's RED Tour, and I told Taylor that all the Ardent sites would support her tour, so I should probably leave them up for a while.

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  • Posted by Robert McDougal Mar 14th 2014

    I can use Youtube from now on. It's just that my account on another video hosting site was discontinued and the embed videos with the viewcount, post date and comments aren't playing and I just need to edit it. Is there any possibility I can contact the admins of Spruz features and work with them about an upgrade option where I can edit those embed codes? In order to continue my business, I kinda need to edit those embed codes.

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