Embedding Video in Outlook E-mail

[MS]

Using Outlook 2003, latest updates in Win XP Pro SP2, also latest updates.

I have the Web Tools toolbar, which includes an icon to insert a video. It
used to work for me. When I try it now, I get an error message.

Another way to embed a video in an e-mail would be through direct insertion
of the HTML tags. However, now the HTML Source option is always grayed out.
I can't seem to get to a place where I can insert HTML code.

What's going on? Can someone help with this? Thank you.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Windows XP SP-2 disabled all of the embedding functions for video and sound
since they are a security risk. The ability has not been added back in for
Outlook 2007.

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After furious head scratching, MS asked:

| Using Outlook 2003, latest updates in Win XP Pro SP2, also latest
| updates.
|
| I have the Web Tools toolbar, which includes an icon to insert a
| video. It used to work for me. When I try it now, I get an error
| message.
|
| Another way to embed a video in an e-mail would be through direct
| insertion of the HTML tags. However, now the HTML Source option is
| always grayed out. I can't seem to get to a place where I can insert
| HTML code.
|
| What's going on? Can someone help with this? Thank you.

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

The 'allow video in email' bug has been fixed.

You can 'embed' a URL to the location of the video, or provide RSS for the
site with the video and encourage subscription to your video feed.

Or try Incredimail.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

"Incredimail" - blech!

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, William Lefkovics [MVP] asked:

| The 'allow video in email' bug has been fixed.
|
| You can 'embed' a URL to the location of the video, or provide RSS
| for the site with the video and encourage subscription to your video
| feed.
|
| Or try Incredimail.
|
|
| || Using Outlook 2003, latest updates in Win XP Pro SP2, also latest
|| updates.
||
|| I have the Web Tools toolbar, which includes an icon to insert a
|| video. It used to work for me. When I try it now, I get an error
|| message.
||
|| Another way to embed a video in an e-mail would be through direct
|| insertion of the HTML tags. However, now the HTML Source option is
|| always grayed out. I can't seem to get to a place where I can insert
|| HTML code.
||
|| What's going on? Can someone help with this? Thank you.

 

[MS]

The 'allow video in email' bug has been fixed.

You can 'embed' a URL to the location of the video, or provide RSS for the
site with the video and encourage subscription to your video feed.

Or try Incredimail.

Your post contradicts Millies, who wrote that video embedding has been
disabled in SP2. Who is right, or is there something I missed?

Is there any way to get that insert video icon on the Web Tools toolbar
working again, as that was a convenient way to do it?

Otherwise, if one can do it by directly placing the HTML tag in the e-mail,
as I mentioned, I haven't been able to do that lately, as the View HTML
Source button is always grayed out. Is that also a new security feature (not
being able to edit the HTML code in an Outlook html e-mail), or has
something been corrupted in my installation, that prevents "view source"
from working?

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

I was suggesting tongue-in-cheek that allowing video in email was a bug to
begin with and it has been fixed. That is, as Milly clarified, sp2 disables
that functionality.

I believe you mean this videomail addin, right?
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Outlook--Addin-Video-Email-Screenshot-7699.html

 

[MS]

I was suggesting tongue-in-cheek that allowing video in email was a bug to
begin with and it has been fixed. That is, as Milly clarified, sp2
disables that functionality.

I believe you mean this videomail addin, right?
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Outlook--Addin-Video-Email-Screenshot-7699.html

I have that video add-in, but that's not what I meant. I meant one of the
Outlook toolbars, called "Web Tools". That has an icon for inserting a
video, sound, or scrolling text.

You wrote in your prior post: "You can 'embed' a URL to the location of the
video". Was that a joke too, or is it possible? That is actually what I
intended to do, not put the actual video in the e-mail. (One could do either
with the toolbar I mentioned--choose a local video file or a URL to embed.)
Since that toolbar icon doesn't work now, how do you embed the URL?

As I said, the "View Source" option in HTML e-mail is now always grayed out
for me (is that universal now too, that one can't look at or edit the HTML
source?), and that icon doesn't work, I cannot figure out how to do it. So,
unless that was also a joke, could you tell me how to embed the URL? Thank
you.

I don't see why such functionality should be excluded, if some people want
to use it. No one has to, of course.