Embed [youtube] video

[acpg]

So we got permission to use a specific video on our Joomla site. We have to use their video and not have the video running on our own server. This is not the specific video, but as an example: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/gala...1363340&page=1. We want people to see the "black screen" on our homepage and be able to click on it (or a play button or whatever) and just have it play from our homepage but we have no idea how to do that mechanically. I've looked at extensions for Joomla and they let you embed videos from [youtube], but don't really mention information about other websites.

If we have to do a lightbox or something like that we could, but it wouldn't be optimal.

Thanks for the help

(I'm a n00b in this area (don't even know if I'm looking for a plugin, component, etc...))

[kenmcd]

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Your example link is broken.

Remote videos can easily be embedded using extensions such as AllVideos Reloaded or the AllVideos Plugin.

Would have to see the example to determine if anything else is needed.
It could be a streaming link.

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[acpg]

Thanks, sorry about that. If you just go to this site: http://abcnews.go.com/video any of the videos would work as an example.

[kenmcd]

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Looks like they use MP4 files with progressive download.
Direct media links look like:
http://video-cdn.abcnews.com/110107_abc ... ubishi.mp4

So use an {mp4remote} tag.
{mp4remote}http://video-cdn.abcnews.com/110107_abc ... /mp4remote}

If you do not know what an {mp4remote} tag is, read the extension(s) documentation.

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[acpg]

Thanks. This is the video we're looking to put up:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/busine ... e-12138262

I can't figure out what the direct media link is.
Thanks

[kenmcd]

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http://video-cdn.abcnews.com/101112_2020_bbb.mp4



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