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freud mayweather

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how do you embed youtubes these days?
« on: September 20, 2011, 09:30:33 PM »
the old way doesn't work, and i tried quoting a post to figure it out, but you can't even do that anymore, because when you quote posts it shows you the actual post instead of the code.


related gripe: when i try to copy and paste something from another site SMF also pastes the formatting as well, usually resulting in a big mess.
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Re: how do you embed youtubes these days?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2011, 10:11:03 PM »
next time you quote the post, click the Toggle View button (mouse arrow inside red brackets).  this will toggle to text.  (eta: this also solves your related gripe)

but to answer your question, you post the full link and it should work.  for example (don't use the code, just copy/paste it directly in the text box):

Code: [Select]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJCpI30eLQ
would become:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJCpI30eLQ
« Last Edit: September 20, 2011, 10:13:25 PM by Chus-Kay »

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Re: how do you embed youtubes these days?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 08:24:07 AM »
The reason the one in the SOD thread didn't work is because it's one of those Twitter URL things.  The board doesn't recognize those like it will the full YouTube URL from what I recall Prime posting at some point.

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Re: how do you embed youtubes these days?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2011, 11:00:37 PM »
The reason the one in the SOD thread didn't work is because it's one of those Twitter URL things.  The board doesn't recognize those like it will the full YouTube URL from what I recall Prime posting at some point.


makes sense. now i just need to figure out how to get youtube to give me links in long hand.
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Re: how do you embed youtubes these days?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2011, 01:11:10 AM »
Copy/paste it out of your browser address bar.

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Re: how do you embed youtubes these days?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2011, 01:11:12 PM »
This seems to be working for others but not me now.  Twice recently I've done this and it does not automatically embed it.

My Magnum TA thread in Wrestling is the most recent example. 

I figured out the problem in my Magnum thread.  It's because it didn't like the initial link and just posted it as a hyperlink.  When I copied over that with the simplified URL, it was still formatting as a hyperlink.  Once I pasted the correctly formatted link in another area of the post, it posted it correctly.
« Last Edit: October 14, 2011, 01:13:14 PM by FreebirdSTF »