Use Documentation Screencasts - how?

Monte Limarya
Hey everybody,

I'm a student at Augsburg University and I'm writing a blog about software which can be used to collaborate. The other students of my course and I introduce collaborative programmes and describe how they work. I chose Zotero and I'd like to embed some of the Zotero screencasts, but it simply won't work, no matter what. I thought that maybe there's some restriction to it, but I found this on the Zotero website:

"If you are interested in customizing documentation for your institution or organization, these examples might be useful. You can also always feel free to copy and repurpose any content (text, images, videos, etc.) from the Zotero website to help support and promote Zotero."

Does anybody have an idea if there's a special procedure for embedding the Zotero screencasts?

Thank you in advance!

All the Best
J.
  • alexuw
    If you're copying the html source, it looks like you need to change the path to the flash content. For example the screencast on this page

    http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials/basic_search

    points to the flash movie at "/static/videos/searches.swf". Note the initial slash. It works for me when I use the path "http://www.zotero.org/static/videos/searches.swf".

    Here's a full object tag that works for me: ... sorry I can't figure out how to embed source here :-/ Hopefully you can figure it out.
  • noksagt
    edited June 17, 2010
    Here's the code that uses the flash video from the zotero website:<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
    codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
    width="767" height="572" ID="Captivate1">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.zotero.org/static/videos/searches.swf">
    <param name="quality" value="high">
    <param name="loop" value="0">
    <embed
    src="http://www.zotero.org/static/videos/searches.swf"
    width="767" height="572" loop="0" quality="high"
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false">
    </embed>
    </object>    You can also copy the video file and self-host it.
  • Monte Limarya
    Thank you very much. I tried it out, but it still won't work. Maybe it has something to do with the blog itself.
  • Tjowens
    If you are having trouble with those you can always use this Zotero intro screencast from youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLi3ZhUQDhs or some of the newer screencasts we are developing which are up on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/user3480056/videos
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