how to embed youtube videos?

ahtiandr

I looked everywhere and I tried many things but nothing worked for me. My youtube video just doesnt want to be embeded here. :shifty:

Could someone help with this please ? How do you embed your youtube videos ?

Fuiosg

pretty sure all you have to do is take the youtube link directly from your search bar, and remove the http://.

ahtiandr

Thanks it worked! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLxBoZWDwrw"][/ame]

Jaelonwarren

Search the video you want to embed on YouTube. Right click on the video and copy embed code.

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZnuwB35GYMY?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

THendersonVFX

I've yet to get either of those methods to work for me

RN

It's a stubborn feature actually, it works really well.

Perhaps you're experiencing this: the youtube embed doesn't show on the preview when creating a thread, it only shows on previews of subsequent posts.

If you're creating a new thread and putting clean links to youtube videos inside the url tags, it will work. It just won't appear on the preview.

Greg DAlessandro

just get rid of the s in https. That should make it work for you.

imyj

I believe you have to press 'Go Advanced' and then paste the link and it auto embeds, don't use quick reply.

Gmanx

I just get rid of the 's' in https

It's best to choose 'go advanced' anyway - just to ensure that your post will display how you want it to.

slipsius

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwbgopIh2Q&feature=youtu.be" get rid of the bolded/underlined part in your link.

It needs to look like "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwbgopIh2Q" The s doesnt seem to matter anymore, but you cant have all that crap after the video reference number.

AFsoft

can anyone tell me how do i do it ? i am stuck and it doesnt work. 

RN

You have to paste the full link to your youtube video, the same as in the address bar, something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-pRqzuY9cg. When you preview or submit the post it should show the embedded player.

Note that if you want to prevent the link from becoming an embed on your post, you can paste the link, highlight it and then add an "Url" format to it. This forces the address to show, instead of the embedded player:

Eric Chadwick

Embedding is explained in the Sticky in General Discussion (along with quite a few other useful tidbits!)
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AFsoft

RN said:

You have to paste the full link to your youtube video, the same as in the address bar, something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-pRqzuY9cg. When you preview or submit the post it should show the embedded player.

Note that if you want to prevent the link from becoming an embed on your post, you can paste the link, highlight it and then add an "Url" format to it. This forces the address to show, instead of the embedded player:

it works only in advanced editor. try to paste your link there, it will work. 

Eric Chadwick

If you copy the URL from RN's reply, and paste it into the Reply field, that WON'T work. Because it's also copying the URL formatting.

If you click the Toggle HTML View button,

you'll see the Youtube address also includes the URL formatting:

<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-pRqzuY9cg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-pRqzuY9cg</a>

This has to be removed for the embedding to work, it has to be the address alone in plain text only. The part you want is shown in black text above.

RN

Hah, nice catch.
If you right-click > Copy Link Location and paste it also embeds, since it comes as plain text like you said.