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[surferpup]

I note that on some posts, especially in posted programs, there are YouTube Links which display as the beginning of a YouTube Video. Yet, I do not see any bbcode that allows me to create such a link. Currently, I can create a url to a link. But how do I add YouTube videos to my posts, especially for purposes of demonstrating program usage?

Edited by surferpup, 31 January 2014 - 02:00 PM.

[theoriginalbit]

by going to any of these posts that you've seen YouTube videos and clicking 'quote' you'll see the bbcode

[media]YouTube link[/media]

Edited by theoriginalbit, 29 January 2014 - 11:41 PM.

[oeed]

I've often found, however, that when I paste a YouTube link the video is automatically added. As long as you don't use the 'youtu.be' version it should work by pasting and clicking post.

In fact, lets test it out...

[surferpup]

Thanks all. That is perfect.

[surferpup]

Sorry All -- thought this was solved. I have done exactly what has been explained here. I never get the video preview window to come up. Is it a permissions issue?

Here is the post I am working on -- It is for my Portal Dialing Computer & Turtles and I wanted to embed the video which inspired it.

Edit: I did finally get this to work. I found that unless I included the watch? option in the url for the [media] tag, it would not work. Probably elementary for some, was not for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eRfsDaUdo --worked.
http://www.youtube.com/v=36eRfsDaUdo -- did not work.

Edited by surferpup, 31 January 2014 - 01:59 PM.

[oeed]

surferpup, on 31 January 2014 - 01:20 PM, said:

Sorry All -- thought this was solved. I have done exactly what has been explained here. I never get the video preview window to come up. Is it a permissions issue?

Here is the post I am working on -- It is for my Portal Dialing Computer & Turtles and I wanted to embed the video which inspired it.

Edit: I did finally get this to work. I found that unless I included the watch? option in the url for the [media] tag, it would not work. Probably elementary for some, was not for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eRfsDaUdo --worked.
http://www.youtube.com/v=36eRfsDaUdo -- did not work.

Good to see you got it working, the watch? part will be due to the way IP. Board detects the videos.

[theoriginalbit]

surferpup, on 31 January 2014 - 01:20 PM, said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eRfsDaUdo --worked.
http://www.youtube.com/v=36eRfsDaUdo -- did not work.

Ummm... without the watch? its not even a valid url, the index page for YouTube isn't designed for GET requests. the only way you can not use watch? is with youtu.be links (which also require removal of v=), which oeed has already stated doesn't work with the media tags.