Instructions on How to Post YouTube Videos
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Topic: Instructions on How to Post YouTube Videos
Posted By: JohnCota
Subject: Instructions on How to Post YouTube Videos
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 7:54am
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I did some searching on this forum to try to find out how to post YouTube videos on Version 8.x forums, and many of the threads seemed very confusing. People were giving out different instructions, and most of them didn't seem to work for me (or anyone else). Here is what I found to work:
1. Make sure you have Flash turned on in your Forum Configuration.
2. Use the FLASH tags as shown in the code below (I put an asterisk in place of the letter "A" in the tag so you can see the code):
[FL*SH WIDTH=425 HEIGHT=350]http://www.youtube.com/v/omFdpnSu57U[/FL*SH]
Notice the /v/EZ9To30Hz7A on the end of the URL? I tried using the normal YouTube URL that looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U , but you cannot use that. You have to scrape the URL out of the "Embed" code shown on the YouTube page next to the video.
Here is the result:
[FLASH WIDTH=425 HEIGHT=350]http://www.youtube.com/v/omFdpnSu57U[/FLASH]
I hope this helps anyone who is searching for this solution on here. It should save you some time searching. Maybe the Moderator can make this a sticky thread so it's easy to find?
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Posted By: javi712
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 4:04pm
| That's the way I've been doing it for months and its the only way that it has worked for me. I think this is definitely the correct way to go about it on V8. |
Posted By: statRacing
Date Posted: 22 July 2007 at 2:55am
| are there security issues with allowing the flash tag? |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 22 July 2007 at 4:18pm
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i did do a tutorial ages ago on how to http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/tips/add-content/add-youtube-videos.asp - Add YouTube Videos
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Posted By: Rooper
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 7:26am
| A button added to the RTE (a la the Images and URL buttons) that inserts the flash tags for users would be super-swell too ... I've tried to add myself, but my programing skills aren't up to snuff ... : ( |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 9:24am
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Web Wiz Forums version 9 natively supports YouTube using the [TUBE] BBcodes.
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Posted By: ruycnd
Date Posted: 11 September 2007 at 11:45pm
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 September 2007 at 8:28am
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The YouTube video is not uploaded to your site as it is simply a link to the video on YouTube. If someone watches a YouTube video in your forum they are using YouTube's bandwidth not your web sites, so will not slow down your forum or increase the consumed bandwidth. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: jasveer
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 8:36am
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Mr. John Cota i tried to post a youtube movie in your forum. but i was failed to post. as u described above in your posted message tht we need to put [FL*SH WIDTH=425 HEIGHT=350]http://www.youtube.com/v/omFdpnSu57U[/FL*SH] Its okie but i could not understand wht u mentioned below.. "Notice the /v/EZ9To30Hz7A on the end of the URL? I tried using the normal YouTube URL that looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U , but you cannot use that. You have to scrape the URL out of the "Embed" code shown on the YouTube page next to the video." all these lines are not giving any such kind of information tht how to embed wht to embed.. plz its my kind request tht mention clearly and put the code as u posted this movie here Thanx Regds. Jasveer |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 1:03pm
I have hopefully clarified how to post UTube videos a bit better as shown below: Sometimes, if you see for example, something like this: v=HzeZhCt5PVA&feature=rec-fresh You would only want to copy and paste the bit starting with HzeZhCt5PVA BUT not the additional bit continuing with &feature=rec-fresh This is SURPLUS to requirements and is only something UTube uses for Feature Related materials ------------- http://www.123simples.com/" rel="nofollow - Visit 123 Simples Web Design |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 September 2008 at 1:56pm
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The other option is upgrade to 9.51 which has an Insert Movie button that does all this for you. It even has a Preview window to check that your YouTube video is correctly linked and you can copy and paste the whole YouTube URL across rather than just the file name. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |