How to embed YouTube videos on this forum

[Scepcop]

To embed YouTube videos in your post, simply put the YouTube URL between these tags.

[youtube] YouTube URL [/youtube]

Or you can just highlight the YouTube URL and then click the "youtube" button in the panel above.

[Scepcop]

It seems that some of you are not embedding the YouTube videos correctly here, for one simple reason. You are leaving blank spaces before or after the YouTube URL between the [youtube] and [/youtube] brackets. Remove the spaces, and the video will show correctly. I've already fixed this for some of you in your posts. Just remember not to have spaces between the youtube brackets.

[Scepcop]

Another thing.

When you embed the YouTube URL between the [youtube] and [/youtube] brackets, make sure to remove the "&feature=related" part at the end of the YouTube URL, if it's there. Otherwise, the video will not embed and display properly here.

[micky011]

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[Craig Browning]

[Arouet]

Ok, I'll try it. People like cute cats so I will use a cute cat video:




Seems to have worked: Craig, I'm using chrome. Have you tried in a different browser?

[NinjaPuppy]

I already knew it worked.

[Craig Browning]

I'll refer you all to my many bitter remarks over the past few years in which I could not get videos to post.

I use Firefox as a browser and it's current. But my argument is NO OTHER FORUM using this format that I've been on (and that's at least a few dozen) has ever restricted what sites you can use for posting video, but they haven't the headaches this site has. Most of the more current forums instantly set the videos no matter the source URL. . . no need to frame the links, it simply goes up when you set it in and post.

So wagging your tail by posting cute kitty cats to prove a point, don't hack it on my end.

[Arouet]

I agree this software is hopelessly out of date and given that its free I would think SCEPCOP would want to update it because its certainly a detriment to the site. Still, that doesn't change that the tags seem to work. I don't know why it doesn't work for you.

[Twain Shakespeare]

Thankyou, SCECOP. After many tries and efforts, I finally managed to post a vid from youtube.

[NinjaPuppy]

It works if you realize that YouTube has updated but this site has not. You need to find the "SHARE" button and then under the link you'll see "options". You need to hit that check off the "Long Link" to get one that will work with the "youtube" command in your "POST A REPLY" commands.

[Craig Browning]

[NinjaPuppy]

Sorry Craig, you can complain all you want, I don't have the powers to upgrade this site. Scepcop has already said that he is not intending to make any upgrades at this time.

We will keep on doing the "usual". You post the YouTube link and I'll click on the two extra commands to make it work.

[Scepcop]

[Scepcop]

Btw all,
I just installed the vimeo hack. Now you can embed videos from vimeo too. See the vimeo button above in the post forum. You can wrap a vimeo video between the vimeo tags by putting the number of the video (not the URL) like this:

[vimeo]vimeo video number without URL[/vimeo]

Here is an example of a video of Yosemite National Park embedded from vimeo: