youtube video embedding lesson

[casterway]

I was fortunate enough to get some help lately with embedding video clips from Youtube, so I'm going to tell you how to do it. When you have brought up a clip that you want to embed, look up at the address bar. You should see an address that looks like this http://youtube.com/watch?v=efBwVP4fyAg. This is what people will post to link to the page. What you want to do is copy that number/letter code at the end, the "efBwVP4fyAg". Now, click on Go Advanced when posting, and at the top of the grey boy, on the right, it will have a You Tube icon, click on this and simply paste this code in between the 2 YouTube in brackets.
The video will now be embedded in your posting.

Now you can share treasures like this with the rest of us.....

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[Mark Davis]

[Jelly]

Another tip, at the bottom of the "quick reply" window at the bottom of your screen which allows you to reply to a thread, hit the "go advanced" option. That screen will have a little YouTube icon in the box above the space where you type. Just hit that button and it will make the right brackets for you (because when I am about to do it I never remember is it the square ones or the curly ones?). Put your cursor between them and paste in the code that you copied from the YouTube link itself (the code is everything after the equal sign).

[Pete Galati]

Originally Posted by casterway

I was fortunate enough to get some help lately with embedding video clips from Youtube, so I'm going to tell you how to do it. When you have brought up a clip that you want to embed, look up at the address bar. You should see an address that looks like this http://youtube.com/watch?v=efBwVP4fyAg. This is what people will post to link to the page. What you want to do is copy that number/letter code at the end, the "efBwVP4fyAg", and paste it between these two lines, so it looks like this-

{youtube}efBwVP4fyAg{/youtube}

This is simply added into the dialog box that you normally type responses in. This will make the video be embedded into your posting.

BUT!!! The brackets must be the square ones [ ]. I had to use the { } ones for a demo here, and you need the / in the second one.

Now you can share treasures like this with the rest of us.....

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Johnny Carson's reaction was great!

Actually, there's a red button in your TDPRI composer, that says "You" over the top of it, and that'll insert those tags.

[J-man]

There are tons of threads scattered around the forum which tell you how to do this already.

[casterway]

Originally Posted by Jelly

Another tip, at the bottom of the "quick reply" window at the bottom of your screen which allows you to reply to a thread, hit the "go advanced" option. That screen will have a little YouTube icon in the box above the space where you type. Just hit that button and it will make the right brackets for you (because when I am about to do it I never remember is it the square ones or the curly ones?). Put your cursor between them and paste in the code that you copied from the YouTube link itself (the code is everything after the equal sign).

Good tip. I never noticed that. Just trying to help those that are still posting links to the Youtube pages. Thanks for the new info. I have edited my original posting.

[TG]

I've got a dial-up connection and sometimes the imbedded clips start loading up before the thread page is loaded...which means I can't get to the bottom posts for ages and I have to give up on the page and close it. Very frustrating.
Is there any way to stop the clips loading until you want them.

[Pete Galati]

Originally Posted by TG

I've got a dial-up connection and sometimes the imbedded clips start loading up before the thread page is loaded...which means I can't get to the bottom posts for ages and I have to give up on the page and close it. Very frustrating.
Is there any way to stop the clips loading until you want them.

If you click in the embedded image (not on that arrow in the center though) you should go right to youtube, where you can pause the image and wait for the whole video to load before viewing it. That way you can go about viewing other threads on TDPRI, or elsewhere, and still see the video when it's ready.

Pete

[TG]

Originally Posted by Pete Galati

If you click in the embedded image (not on that arrow in the center though) you should go right to youtube, where you can pause the image and wait for the whole video to load before viewing it. That way you can go about viewing other threads on TDPRI, or elsewhere, and still see the video when it's ready.

Pete

Thanks, but my problem is being on the end of a bad rural phone line (with electric fences leaking in to it). Loading a YouTube clip can take an hour if the weather is bad...and everything else would have to stop while I do it. I need to stop the clips downloading altogether to finish loading a long thread page.

Oh well. Maybe someday I'll have a connection that will let me keep up, but in the meantime I'm bolloxed for threads with a load of imbedded clips. It's bad enough with oversized photos, but video clips are a killer.

[J-man]

Originally Posted by TG

Thanks, but my problem is being on the end of a bad rural phone line (with electric fences leaking in to it). Loading a YouTube clip can take an hour if the weather is bad...and everything else would have to stop while I do it. I need to stop the clips downloading altogether to finish loading a long thread page.

Oh well. Maybe someday I'll have a connection that will let me keep up, but in the meantime I'm bolloxed for threads with a load of imbedded clips. It's bad enough with oversized photos, but video clips are a killer.

The embedded videos shouldn't begin to load until you click play, at least in my experience they don't, what are you running?