If you want insert a video into a blog post with the Windows Live Writer you have to change the view to HTML and insert the code between two paragraphs. With this plugin you don’t have to do this anymore.

After you installed the PlugIn click on the right side on the “insert” menu on “insert video”

paste the code from Youtube in the URL field if everything is ok you will see a preview.

Click on ok.

The video plugin supports many video services, like YouTube, Google, SoapBox, Yahoo!, Myspace, MyVideo, MuveeMix, BrightCove and Divshare.

The new feature in this version is specific to YouTube videos. YoutTube added a related videobar, which appear in the videos. In this new version of Video Plugin you can choose to show this bar or not.

If you installed a previous version of the VideoPlugin, you have to delete the old one manually. Go to the directory C:\Program Files\Windows Live Writer\Plugins and delete the InsertVideo.dll file after this you can run the installer.

Download: Windows Live Writer VideoPlugin

Scøtt explain that he won’t release any updates till version 4 which will be international and support different languages. If you want suggest a language (I suggested German and Italian) or report an bug, you can write him a comment or send him an e-mail.

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