I'll look into making another Odysee account - then all my videos should just auto upload there - here I will post a link like you said, maybe that will work - I have not really used Peaked, so will try here first - see how I go.
About the other video platforms - rumble etc., an embedding, I have tried them all and none seem to work - in my option. Hopefully 3speak works soon - I'll try videos over there in like a week, see what happens - but it was not just encoding / as you said, they would not play either when posted. So I don't know.
thanks!
Remember that Hive.blog users will see only a blank post if you embed video from Odysee. BT has sought to rectify the issue, but it seems to be Hive.blog devs that have responsibility for that.