How do you embed Youtube vids on this forum?

[Purveyor Of Evil]

I'll admit I'm not computer savvy. Any help here would be hot. Thanks!

 

[AngraRULES]

Most of the time, just pasting the url will do the trick.

 

[Purveyor Of Evil]

I clicked embed, copied and pasted it, and only text showed up in my post.

 

[ApolloFC]

link[url](with a / before the second url and before after the [ )

 

[Purveyor Of Evil]

Shouldn't clicking the highlighted text after clicking embed be correct?

 

[ApolloFC]

Clearly I haven't done this enough or maybe its cause its a shortned url.

[noob]

 

[Purveyor Of Evil]

http://youtu.be/2cH2azkFMPE

I know how to do that, but I want to have the video window in the postings like the others above me have done.

 

[hoodaman]

try just pasting the link into your post with no special embed or BB code.

 

[sh0kr0k]

Just copy the URL from your address bar and paste it in the message. No embed code, nothing else, JUST the url. The forum will automatically read it and do what it needs to.

 

[Element_man]

[youtube*]2cH2azkFMPE[/*youtube]

remove the *'s, and replace the random number and letters, with the random numbers and letter found at the back of your video's URL. This always works for me, nothing else seems to though

 

[MetalAges]

Generally all you do is grab the URL for the page you're on, not the one that is generated from the "share" links or embed links etc. - copy URL from browser, paste - that's all.

 

[SeaStorm]

I use the Insert Link button (the globe with a chain link - is that what you mean when you say "I clicked embed"?) and it works every single time.

Although, as noted, I make sure to always use the pure link (ending in 'watch?v=xxxxxxxxxx' and remove anything after and including the &; all that 'feature' and 'embed' stuff in the url probably screws it up).

 

[Pellaz]

I think you have to select the "long URL" option on YouTube when sharing the link, to get it to work correctly here. (You get a "youtube.com" instead of a "youtu.be" link. I can only assume that UltimateMetal hates Belgium. )

 

[SeaStorm]

I just noticed one other thing that might be causing the problem for you. Using the Insert Link button, I just tried to paste in a regular YouTube link from the window I was in, but it wouldn't show the video window in the posting, just the url text. Then I realized it was because I was on a secure version of YouTube, requiring me to remove the 's' from the 'http' in the url.

So, I had to change my https://www....... url to http://www....... and it worked.

Hopefully one of these many suggestions was the root of your problem.

 

[Purveyor Of Evil]

I'm sorry. I should have posted a few days ago that I've figured it out with everyone's help. Thanks to all!