Be aware that since version 1.8 you don’t need to manually create any Shortcodes!

Here comes a normal video embed and this is all it takes [vimeo id="993998"] Assuming you have set ‘normal’. Else you needed to set the mode as well.

Look at this, its a thumbnail and its floating rights, isn’t that awesome?
[youtube id="vrXgLhkv21Y" mode="thumbnail" align="right"]

This is how it looks like for YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and Blip.tv. They provide the functionality to load a thumbnail image for videos from their servers.

For other providers the thumbnails look like this if ‘Fake Thumbnail’ is enabled.

If you disable Fake Thumbnails or the providers not supports wmode=transparent then the thumbnails are displayed black like this or you can now in since version 1.9beta pick your own thumbnail image.

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