Embedding YouTube videos

[Hurtfulsplash]

We used to be able to embed YouTube videos just by posting the link, has that changed or been disabled with the new format?

[Janet_Girl]

You still just insert the link and it should show up.

Like this

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vGwVhmVweA&feature=sub

[Hurtfulsplash]

That's how I posted them, but only URLs appear now.

[Flan]

You still just insert the link and it should show up.

Like this

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vGwVhmVweA

I modified it to as it should be, from "&", remove everything including the &

[Janet_Girl]

post it here and I will see what might be the problem

[Hurtfulsplash]

It's in the thread I made titled 2 HBO Films, under movies.

What seems to be happening is that I insert the link properly but the forum is adding URL code to it after I click post.

[VeryGnawty]

We need to figure out this problem.  It seems that there are several people who can't embed videos.  I tried posting one of Paul's videos using the same text and it works for me but not for him.

So I have a question for all the geeks here.  When someone embeds a video, where exactly does the embedded player come from?  Does it come from the website where the video is sourced, or does it come from the person's browser?  If I knew the answer to that question, it would be a lot easier to track down the source of this embedding problem.

[Flan]

We need to figure out this problem.  It seems that there are several people who can't embed videos.  I tried posting one of Paul's videos using the same text and it works for me but not for him.

So I have a question for all the geeks here.  When someone embeds a video, where exactly does the embedded player come from?  Does it come from the website where the video is sourced, or does it come from the person's browser?  If I knew the answer to that question, it would be a lot easier to track down the source of this embedding problem.

the forum software auto-parses the resulting page to capture/embed the flash container (web app) used to playback video

[fwagodess]

I did a search on the Simple Machine Forums web site and did a search of YouTube.

I believe that this forum is lacking a special feature called the YouTube BBCode, but it is depreciated and has been replaced by Aeva.

[Renate]

A regular link is coded such:

[url=http://www.google.com/]Google me![/url]

Google me!

Here is a YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c

There does seem to be a problem here.
The preview of the YouTube looks fine, but upon actual posting the link gets rewritten.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c#]TEST VIDEO[/url]

[Flan]

except when it works randomly

[Renate]

Or when you put the url inside some other BBCode that fools the rewriter.

[b]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c[/b]

[Beth Andrea]

testing, because I couldn't post a vid except the link.

Using the [ b]....[ /b] trick:

Removing the [ b]...[ /b]:

Note the changes: ("URL=" added, and title; I didn't type those in)

[ url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrVWF3z1jTc&feature=feedlik#]Backwards fetishistic legal idiocy[/url]

Removing everything after the "&":



I notice that a "#" symbol was added to where the "&" symbol used to be, and the "Backwards fetishistic..." text was added.



fwiw, I'm using Firefox 4.0.1 and Windows XP.

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