how to embed youtube on polycount.

Rockley Bonner

ive tryed looking up tutorials but I cant find a way to embed youtube into a polycount post....

Marine

just paste the link, don't think it works with the shortened url. if you want to make sure it's working before you submit reply, paste the link, hit go advanced, then preview post, if it worked it'll show the video in the preview post bit

Sean VanGorder

I get this question a lot. Marine's correct, you have to use the url from the address bar, but sometimes it won't work if you have a bunch of extra stuff in it. So just follow this...



Then paste that directly in your post and it should work.

Rockley Bonner

ah, thanks guys!

leilei

also rj boner dont forget about the protocol, the embedding doesn't work on https for example.

D4V1DC

Sticky this. lol!
I am just curious couldn't you just add that plugin for the forums that makes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

work in one shot instead of just a band aid solution of let's hope it works and if it doesn't oh well?

Just wondering is all, I always had a hard time with this and just gave up and started posting the link and saying (to myself) if someone checks the link awesome good for them if not they missed out..

*whistles away, as if nothing was said*

3devo

just ran into this myself. interestingly enough the forums will accept url tags in both Caps and lowercase but video ebedding only works in caps. strange behaviour.

adam

"I am just curious couldn't you just add that plugin for the forums that makes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

work in one shot instead of just a band aid solution"

What band-aid solution? You would rather put in tags on the end of a URL instead of just needing to paste the URL itself?

Andreas

I think what s!inz is saying is that the video doesnt always imbed properly if we just link, sometimes a normal web link appears.

Rockley Bonner

$!nz wrote: »

Sticky this. lol!
I am just curious couldn't you just add that plugin for the forums that makes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

work in one shot instead of just a band aid solution of let's hope it works and if it doesn't oh well?

Just wondering is all, I always had a hard time with this and just gave up and started posting the link and saying (to myself) if someone checks the link awesome good for them if not they missed out..

*whistles away, as if nothing was said*

aww im flattered!

D4V1DC

adam wrote: »

What band-aid solution? You would rather put in tags on the end of a URL instead of just needing to paste the URL itself?

Touch

HitmonInfinity

Sean VanGorder wrote: »

I get this question a lot. Marine's correct, you have to use the url from the address bar, but sometimes it won't work if you have a bunch of extra stuff in it. So just follow this...



Then paste that directly in your post and it should work.

I have to pull this thread up every time I post a youtube video! And sometimes I cannot for the life of me figure out why it's still not embedding.

However, this seemed to work for me today: paste the web address like picture above, but make sure to Remove Link. For some reason it doesn't like it when it's already linked.

DrunkShaman

heh heh he....band aid solution.

slipsius

actually, im curious. this use to be so much easier, but then youtube changed. You use to be able to just hit the share button, hit the long link and copy that and it would work fine. But you cant get the "long link" anymore. now it gives you some yo.utube bs.

So, say you see something on facebook thats embedded. when you click the little youtube button to go to youtube, it brings up a link that looks like this /watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3VdthV6sLFA. So how do you convert it to make it work here?

Ben Apuna

@slipsius:

Like this:

[noparse]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VdthV6sLFA[/noparse]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VdthV6sLFA"]BBC Richard Hammonds Invisible Worlds S01E03 720p BluRay - YouTube[/ame]

ironbelly

ha, I remember spending a god awful amount of time figuring this out a while ago.. Glad to see a nice tutorial thread on it now

artstream

Posting this for anyone using Vimeo.

If you want to embed your Vimeo video, use this code
"[-vv-] ###[-/vv-]"
where the "###" is the numbers in your video URL (no dashes, they're just there so that it won't try to embed a non-existent video)

If you changed the URL to be words, then have the "###" be replaced with your words so, "[-vv-]myvideo[-/vv-]".

Thanks to Steffen for sharing this tip with me!