It hasn't worked for me since this upgraded or whatever. I'm putting the url [youtube:X][/youtube:X] and nothing.

Am I doing somethin wrong?

Cause you don't got skill like me ...lol

you doing it right, just take off those X's.

I can do it, like LittleBLUECorvette said, take off the x's.

Take off the semicolon and X's both, of course.

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Also, when you cut and paste a URL, sometimes it's just text, sometimes it's a link. The problem lies in that the "linky" part of the URL has to be removed. How do you do that?

Click your cursor anywhere within the link, then click the "broken chain" link in the editing area (to the left of the A above). That will remove the "link" and make the text URL of www.whatever.com UNlinked. So it'll look like www.whatever.com (just text) instead of www.whatever.com (a link)

It should NOT look like [ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/wa...aAg_ll28FE[/ yoube]

But rather: [ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAg_ll28FE[/ yoube]

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There's an even shorter way to post a video.

A YouTube link looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAg_ll28FE

See the part after the watch?v= That's all you need really. Those series of numbers, letters, and characters (that can sometimes include an underscore or a h-y-p-h-e-n) are what identifies the video itself. That's all you really need.

Just put that between the YouTube code, like this (removing the periods of course) [.youtube]4aAg_ll28FE[/.youtube]

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Side note about the above:

Sometimes the URL will look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAg_ll28FE&playnext_from=TL&videos=2FaWuGnqKQE&feature=sub

Really messy. Find the part I bolded, between the equal sign (=)and the AND symbol (&), and that's the part you need.

In short, don't use any formatting like bold or italics and make sure it's not a link, and you'll be fine.

I'm thinking it depends on browsers, because I copy the link all the time on Firefox but it's usually from the video's link address itself as the video is playing. But other browsers may automatically have it as a link. Yeah I'm with Ernest on this one, how do y'all make it "link"? lol

I'm thinking it depends on browsers, because I copy the link all the time on Firefox but it's usually from the video's link address itself as the video is playing. But other browsers may automatically have it as a link. Yeah I'm with Ernest on this one, how do y'all make it "link"? lol

I'm guessing it's the browser.

Timmy84 said:

I'm thinking it depends on browsers, because I copy the link all the time on Firefox but it's usually from the video's link address itself as the video is playing. But other browsers may automatically have it as a link. Yeah I'm with Ernest on this one, how do y'all make it "link"? lol

I've used Firefox, Flock (currently), Safari, and IE. What I typed is more about the editing software on the Org now, not the browser.

I laid it all out above on how to embed a YouTube vid properly, and side step the hiccups that happen(s) at times.

I guess the board can be funny but I've been able to do what I did before the forum changes lol so I can't speak for anyone.

Works for me!

ernestsewell said:

Take off the semicolon and X's both, of course.

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Also, when you cut and paste a URL, sometimes it's just text, sometimes it's a link. The problem lies in that the "linky" part of the URL has to be removed. How do you do that?

Click your cursor anywhere within the link, then click the "broken chain" link in the editing area (to the left of the A above). That will remove the "link" and make the text URL of www.whatever.com UNlinked. So it'll look like www.whatever.com (just text) instead of www.whatever.com (a link)

It should NOT look like [ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/wa...aAg_ll28FE[/ yoube]

But rather: [ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAg_ll28FE[/ yoube]

----------------------------------

There's an even shorter way to post a video.

A YouTube link looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAg_ll28FE

See the part after the watch?v= That's all you need really. Those series of numbers, letters, and characters (that can sometimes include an underscore or a h-y-p-h-e-n) are what identifies the video itself. That's all you really need.

Just put that between the YouTube code, like this (removing the periods of course) [.youtube]4aAg_ll28FE[/.youtube]

----------------------------------

Side note about the above:

Sometimes the URL will look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAg_ll28FE&playnext_from=TL&videos=2FaWuGnqKQE&feature=sub

Really messy. Find the part I bolded, between the equal sign (=)and the AND symbol (&), and that's the part you need.

In short, don't use any formatting like bold or italics and make sure it's not a link, and you'll be fine.

I haven't been able to post embedded video since the upgrade, either. Why make things so complicated? The old way was so much easier. I'm old. It's hard for me to learn all of this new, fancy stuff.

kitbradley said:

I haven't been able to post embedded video since the upgrade, either. Why make things so complicated? The old way was so much easier. I'm old. It's hard for me to learn all of this new, fancy stuff.

It's actually the way it's always been. Nothing changed except for the "making sure it's not a link" part. The BBC code is still the same as it ever was.

Yeah, I also struggle with things I didn´t have problems prior to the org "improvement". I wish there was a tool for posting videos as there is for posting pictures.

dag said:

Yeah, I also struggle with things I didn´t have problems prior to the org "improvement". I wish there was a tool for posting videos as there is for posting pictures.

See reply #3.

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT this ain't fancy.

I guess it depends on how people are doing it. I can still put the YouTube tags with the video URL and it'll go through without it being a "link". But I guess some of us have figured it out. IDK.

ernestsewell said:

dag said:

Yeah, I also struggle with things I didn´t have problems prior to the org "improvement". I wish there was a tool for posting videos as there is for posting pictures.

See reply #3.

I´ve read it, thanks.

dag said:

ernestsewell said:

See reply #3.

I´ve read it, thanks.

lol I wasn't tryin' to be nasty or anything, just FYI. I just wanted to state that the code is still the same. There's just a little hiccup in the process now.

Actually, Ben addressed this on a thread here : http://prince.org/msg/3/337360

There is also a thread here citing the same issue: http://prince.org/msg/3/337527

Check the Ben thread though. I'm only mirroring what he's already noted. Dude's smart though. I'm but a humble minion. hehehe