Emmafan456 Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Hi. Slightly embarrassing, but I'm not sure how to embed a YouTube video into a forum post because of the new layout.. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dookdookdook Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Find the youtube video you want to embed, click the share button to get the youtube url and just paste that into a post. The forum software takes care of the embedding. You can use either of the url forms below. If there are paramaters after the "watch?v=xxxxxxx" part you can delete that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkyiBRpi8D4 http://youtu.be/hkyiBRpi8D4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Emmafan456 Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 (edited) Oh, thank you very much! That's so simple Edited June 27, 2013 by Emmafan456 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thessalie Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Hello, I have to say that I used this "method" i.e. whenever I wanted to post a youtube video, I just c/p the link. And the links remain, I never see my videos. Why is that ? Or what am I doing wrong ? [Examples where it didn't work : http://forum.emma-watson.net/index.php?/topic/3428-where-you-feel-at-home-harry-potter-video-tribute/ http://forum.emma-watson.net/index.php?/topic/3426-ylvis/ ] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sacred_Path Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 It doesn't accept blank URL tags anymore, it copies the URL into the tags. Which is a change from the problem I had before, where the URL tags would default to something like "undefined" o.O Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dookdookdook Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Thessalie, are you using the Link button in the tool bar? If so, that is for adding a link which is what you get. To embed the video, just paste (Ctrl V) the text of the link into your post. The forum software knows how to display that as en embedded video. If you change the post editor to text mode (button at top left corner) you should see a url that looks like the first one below. If it looks like the second, with url tags, you are doing something wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhPLb_vCkg [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhPLb_vCkg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhPLb_vCkg[/url] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thessalie Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 That works when I use the button for external links, I think it didn't work when I just copy/paste the links (I though it was the same but I must say it didn't work untill I used the button !) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Earthiana 🌎 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Why is it not working anymore? I pasted a link on "what song are you listening to?" and it didn't embed the video. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dookdookdook Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 You pasted the URL as a link. You need to paste it as plain text, and then the forum software will recognize and embed it as a video. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Junkie. Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 There is also another way, just type [youtube] INSERT LINK TO THE VIDEO HERE [/youtube] and that is it.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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