how to Embed a video on the Main page

Hi All,

    Is there a way to embed a video so that when everyone hits the main page the video plays ?

Just go to page builder, create a new html block and add your embed code there....

 Thanks for the reply, can you show me an example ?

Go to builders in the admin menu and then click on page builder.  Choose the Homepage from the list.

Under the page layout that shows the items/blocks on the page is the Inactive Blocks and Samples.  Move your mouse pointer over the HTML block in samples until it changes to the move icon, (multi-arrows) and click and drag the HTML sample block to where you want it to appear on the page.  Release the mouse and it will be in place.  Click on the item and the edit box will open.  If you don't want a title for the block, then you can remove the caption and leave it blank; it will say emtpy when you are finished and no title will be on the block.  There is a way to change the design box it uses but that is for another time.  The HTML editor will open for the block.  You want to turn that off first to keep TinyMCE from reformatting the code.  Just paste in your video embed code and then save the block out and visit your home page.  If everything was done correctly, you will see the video.  Now to get the video to autoplay you may need to add the autoplay bits to the code, you can search the net for this.

Edit: Here is the way with an iframe embed;

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="[YouTube Video URL]?rel=0&autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

And with the old embed code:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vK9_rU37IbE&autoplay=1"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vK9_rU37IbE&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

This is just my opinion but I would reconsider the video autoplaying.  Autoplaying videos can be very annoying; just like music playing automatically when you visit a page.

I guess one of the questions would be - where is the video coming from - Youtube, Your own site, etc? If it is a video from your own site - there should be an embed code on the video view page that you would use in the html block. Make sure to switch to html view before pasting code in html block. If youtube video, just get the youtube embed code from that video page, and again, copy into html block (in html mode).

I agree with gg.... Not everyone has as good a connect as you. Always set embedded video auto play to "no". I have severely curtailed my Facebook visiting because of that nonsense. The new Facebook can cause your entire browser to crawl, even when it's open in the background. If someone wants to watch the video, they can very easily click the little play arrow.