There is a plethora of video plugins for WordPress which allow you to include videos on your blog. Some allow you to display videos from external sources such as YouTube while others allow you to include your own videos on your site.
The WordPress editor behaves oddly when you try to include HTML, and you often have to recode the HTML whever you want to edit a page which contains (for example) a YouTube video. This can be very infuriating and the use of a video plugin can help this problem enormously.
My favourite plugin for displaying external videos (such as YouTube) is the Viper Quicktags plugin, this allows you to display videos from a bunch of different sites. Here's a run down on the plugin from the official WordPress.org plugins site:
Viper's Video Quicktags
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... click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box -- easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more.
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For uploading my own videos, I use the Embedded Video with Link plugin. If your video isn't already an FLV, you will need to convert it to one before uploading as this plugin can not automatically convert it for you. The best software I've found for converting to FLV format is the Riva Video Encoder which has many options for compressing your video file. The plugin also allows embedding of external videos, although I find it isn't quite as good for this task as the Vipers Quicktag plugin. Here's a run down on the plugin from the official WordPress.org plugins site:
Embedded Video with Link
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... made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and integrated as well. Additionally a corresponding link to the video on the particular video portal page or a download link to the local file can be generated automatically, if demanded ...
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