[@tweakben Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

Did you ever find a solution for this?

[@tweakben Participant 10 years, 11 months ago]

Hi Giacomo!

I added the following line to my themes functions.php:

/* Stop WordPress from auto embeds */
remove_filter( ‘the_content’, array( $GLOBALS[‘wp_embed’], ‘autoembed’ ), 8 );

…and then composed a new Buddypress Private Message with http://www.mysite.com/blah.mp4 as the text.

Now it shows

Video Player

Media error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not found

Download File: http://www.mysite.com/blah.mp4?_=1

00:00

00:00

00:00

Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.

instead of the actual text. It’s still trying to wrap it, but at least not autoplay now.

[@tweakben Participant 10 years, 11 months ago]

Bump!