Videos on Facebook and Twitter

Alex, I am using JWPlayer Advanced and with that I can include a sharing icon in each video on the page. If I get how Facebook and Twitter scrapes the page, if I want a unique image, title and description for each video then instead of having multiple videos in modules on a single page, I need to make a list of available videos in a module where the image for each video is a link to a separate page for that video and then use Easy Tags on that page to set og and twitter properties. From there the user can click the share button and I can use content tags to set the image, title, description, URL, link to video on that page, so that when the user clicks the share button on either the video player or on the page they will get a beautiful representation of that video on their timeline or Twitter page etc. Is there a way to include multiple videos on one page and send separate og:, twitter: properties for each video? JWPlayer depends on the og: and twitter: tags on the page.

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For videos I see the following:But I don't see a property for the poster image. Would Facebook just be the og:image tag in this case?

Would I do something like:And let Facebook and Twitter pick the poster image from the list?

I am also not quite sure how to use these:Do I declare <meta property="og:video.movie" content="example.com/movie.swf" /> and then follow with , , etc.? Using Easy Tags to accomplish this of course.

Thanks so much Mel. Good information.

I just wanted to get some feedback on how to handle many videos on a single page. Since the og: and twitter: tags for the pages are what will be scraped by twitter and Facebook, it is my sense that if I want the video to nave all the same properties it has on the website on the Facebook and twitter pages, then I can only have one video per page. JWPlayer has a social media plugin, but when I enable it, all the social media buttons on any page that also has a JWPlayer video on it are treated as if the content is a video by Facebook, throwing an error.

The only way I see to get around this is to create a play list of images of the player with the poster images on the pages that I want to have videos and the create a hidden menu item of type K2 Item that is solely devoted to that video without anything else on the page and then link items in the play list to those hidden menu items. That way I could add all the Easy Tags necessary so the the video can be properly shared.

Unfortunately JoomlaRulez that coded the JWPlayer plugin didn't provide for a menu type of JWPlayer which is why I have to use K2 Items and then use a JWPlayer content tag to get the JWplayer plugin to pick it up and display the video on the page. I want to use the Social Link that the JWPlayer provides, which displays on the video itself, which I think will just pick up the og: and twitter: meta tags on the page. Perhaps when I get all the spurious social media tags removed from the page, the JWPlayer Social Media plugin may provide a nice video on Facebook and Twitter without my having to add the Easy Tags, maybe, I will let you know. I think the JWPlayer Social Media plugin is pretty spartan.

I have to experiment with this a bit and I will let you know what I find works best.

Thanks for the great support.

Yes, but I need a unique URL for each video if I want the video formatted on twitter and Facebook the way I want it. I can't have both and article and a video on the same page if I want to use og:image to provide a poster image for the video. The videos page just can't have any other og or twitter tags on the page other than the canonical URL.

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