I was using the YouTubePlayer and VimeoPlayer extensions that come with BlogEngine.NET out of the box. They do a great work showing videos in desktop browsers, but I found some limitations that I wanted to overcome. So I decided to write my own extensions to substitute this two.
The YoutubeViewer and VimeoViewer extensions that I've written offer the following features:
Automatically embed a viewer for YouTube or Vimeo videos with a simple syntax. The basic syntax is and where XXXX is the video ID that you can get from the URL (squared in red in the images):
The viewer adapt automatically to the capabilities of the browser used to browse your site. That means that they will be displayed correctly and full-featured even in mobile devices like iPhone, Android or iPad.
From the Extensions tab of BlogEngine you can set the default values for the viewer's Width, Height, Border (Yes or No), Include related videos (YouTube only), Allow Full Screen (YouTube only), Title text ...
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