Title: Insert Uploaded Video
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Insert Uploaded Video

 *  [bhoyt47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhoyt47/)
 * (@bhoyt47)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-uploaded-video/)
 * Ok, please forgive me if this is something of a newbie question. I seem to have“
   mastered” the process of embedding video files from external websites (such as
   YouTube) to my blog. That seems to be a fairly straightforward process of cutting
   and pasting embed code.
 * The challenge that I’m facing at the moment, however, is that I would like to
   embed a video file that is NOT being hosted by an external website. The file 
   that I have is too large for YouTube, so I had planned to simply upload it to
   my web server and then link to it. And, I think that I can do that if all that
   I want to do is have people download the file. However, I was hoping to find 
   a way to actually have the video appear and be played/streamed through my blog
   post (pretty-much the same thing that happens when I embed a YouTube video). 
   Is that possible? Or do I need to have special video streaming software installed
   on my web server?
 * If this is NOT possible, does anyone know of a service that would allow me to
   upload a LONG (approx. 2-hour) video of about 800 mb that I could then embed?
   Thanks for your help.

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 * [streaming](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/streaming/)
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