how to embed youtube videos?

ahtiandr · Dec 2014

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 · Dec 2014

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

ahtiandr · Dec 2014

Thanks it worked! [ame="

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

Jaelonwarren · Jan 2015

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 · Mar 2015

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

RN · Mar 2015

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 · Mar 2015

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

imyj · Mar 2015

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

Gmanx · Mar 2015

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 · Mar 2015

"

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 · Aug 2018

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

RN · Aug 2018

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 · Aug 2018

Embedding is explained in the Sticky in General Discussion (along with quite a few other useful tidbits!)
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AFsoft · Aug 2018

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 · Aug 2018

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 · Aug 2018

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

how to embed youtube videos?

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