# Why can't I get poster videos to work in a blog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 23, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-poster-videos-to-work-in-a-blog/327508 "2005-10-23T07:11:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-poster-videos-to-work-in-a-blog/327508/1 "2005-10-23T07:11:06Z")
I’ve been trying for the last week to get poster videos to work in a blog, and I can’t for the life of me do it. The code I’ve tried most recently is from [here](http://www.edtech.neu.edu/workshops/materials/videoontheweb/materials/publishtoweb/) , and you can see the magnificent [results](http://thebowandgrimace.blogspot.com/2005/10/damnit_23.html) . I’ve already embedded lots of videos in the blog, but all of the videos load automatically when someone comes to the page. I want to make them poster videos so that people can click the videos they want to load and the page itself will load much faster… thanks and have a good one… ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-poster-videos-to-work-in-a-blog/327508/2 "2005-10-23T07:47:47Z")
You seem to be missing a couple \< tags. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-get-poster-videos-to-work-in-a-blog/327508/3 "2005-10-23T08:02:35Z")
On second look, there are these break\
tags disecting the code.