Here is a short tutorial for posting a Youtube video on the forums. If anybody knows of another way, don't hesitate to add it.

You know how on Youtube there's the Embed: box? Copy what is in there and post it in a flash object. Then, get rid of everything except the URL that has src= in front of it. (Get rid of the quotes as well) Then, change it to a size that can reasonably be accommodated on the forums. I usually put whatever the original video was, unless it's huge.

Here's an example.

SOURCE VIDEO

For this:




The code is this:

Code: › [flash width=560 height=340]http://www.youtube.com/v/ukZCHX5ffEI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b[/flash]

Here is what was in the embed code:

<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ukZCHX5ffEI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ukZCHX5ffEI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>

The "value" url in the first param tag and the "src" (source) url in the embed tag are identical, it doesn't matter which one you use. I just used the height and width of the video.

I used a red border instead the default to test if you could actually do it, which amazingly, you can. But sadly, you cannot have it autoplay.

In this post I used the same thing, but I edited the height and left the default flash object width to just have the player because I only wanted the music and I couldn't find a sound file of it online or have it on my computer.

Code: › [flash width=250 height=25]http://www.youtube.com/v/uAIAET2e2y8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999[/flash]

It took me about 15-30 minutes of trying to find a way for me to figure this out so I could post my videos. Hope that it helps!

:smt029 sum1else out. :smt029

Making this sticky - thanks sum1

there is also this, which lets YouTube use HTML5 or Flash for playback instead of requiring Flash.

Code: › [web height=500]http://www.youtube.com/embed/jnxkdxEbFzU[/web]

I assume people browse this site from phones, where this is useful.

would be good to note that the link is not the regular link. you have to click on "share" and then get the "embedded" link.

basically make sure the link you use has "embed" in there somewhere..

yeah they've made it harder.


Thx for the tip miller