Embedding Youtube Videos on my Blog

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Hey everybody; a question here from a confused 'tuber (not a potato :D).

I've wanted to embed my youtube videos here on VT as like a "video" blog sort of thing. How do I embed videos either onto a thread or onto my VT blog? I can't seem to get it working. Copying and pasting the embed code just isn't working; the post just shows up with the code written down on it like this:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fEWdyNeZvcc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fEWdyNeZvcc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Jesse]

You use the tags to embed a YT video in the forums.
Place the video ID string within the youtube tags.
So,

The video ID string is bolded below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0)

(And of course replace the "{" and "}" with "[" and "]" (For the below explaination :) ))
So, {youtube}at_f98qogyo{/youtube} will return:




[youtube]at_f98qOGY0

[george]

No matter what, you should always try and use the URL they give you below the description box on youtube videos because a lot of times, you'll come up with these longer URLs that you get from the top of whichever browser you're using like this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ9jrBg4Lwc&feature=related

Now there's a way to get the part you want from this URL too and that is by taking off the "&feature=related" after the part you want which would be whatever is after the "/watch?v=" part so in this case it would be "pZ9jrBg4Lwc"

Take the "pZ9jrBg4Lwc" part and put {youtube} the code in between so "pZ9jrBg4Lwc" then {/youtube} after the code. Remember to replace the {}'s with []'s or the code will not work and of course take off all the ""s.

The reason why that gianormous code you have doesn't work is because HTML isn't activated on VT.

[iJack]

fEWdyNeZvcc


[noparse] guys. ;)

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Lemme test this now;

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[ThatCanadianGuy]

Damn it; not working!!!

[theOperaGhost]

You have to have the / in your end tag... [/youtube]

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Sick! Rep Cookies for everyone!

[george]

OMG COOKIES?! WHERE?! *starts looking around everywhere with giant eyes*

Congratz on figuring out BB code :)

Yay for 13 rep power now :yeah:

[theOperaGhost]

Yay, for James!

[Maverick]

Yay for lockage!

Glad you got sorted.