Insert Video v3.0
It started out “long ago” as the SoapBox Video Plugin, turned into one of the most popular Windows Live Writer plugins and is now in version 3: Windows Live Writer Insert Video.
In my mind Insert Video is the only video plugin you need with Windows Live Writer — and currently I’m simply not considering any others.
Insert Video comes as an installer and once installed comes with a smart set of default options. Default, I say, because as you insert the video of your liking in your Windows Live Writer post you can override most of these:
Upon insert you can choose between full video with preview of an image and a link to the video. The video size is set and cannot be resized.
When you paste a wrong URL you’re going to get, as the plugin so nicely puts it, a big fat hairy error:
What was interesting in the case of my video is that the URL copied from the address bar for YouTube gave me this error but the URL in the share box did not — even though they are exactly the same. Go figure.
Going with the default options (Tools / Preferences / Plugins) and the settings as they appear in the Insert Video dialog except for enabling Show Title, we easily end up with this:
