How do you embed a YouTube video?

[Big Daddy]

I have seen other people embed a YouTube video on a page in their post. How do you do this?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

click on the arrow and then paste the youtube url.

you will come to this

you can write what you want on the part where its highlighted in blue.

 

[hiero2]

Zam's method shows you how to LINK to a youtube vid. To EMBED, you need to add code like this

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vEo8BHnTBQs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

for this vid:http://youtu.be/vEo8BHnTBQs

which actually does not seem to work in the forum post! The forum posts have limited html capacity. The above would work if you put it in your blog - or something like that.

If you can point us in the direction of a POST that has a youtube vid embedded, I will take a look and see if I can get the code they used.

 

[Ferminal]

As if the forum software is at circa 2008 capabilities.

Try 2000.

So video embed is not easily possible.

 

[krebs303]

I have seen other people embed a YouTube video on a page in their post. How do you do this?

I cannot recall a embedded video on this forum. It would be nice.

 

[mewmewmew13]

I cannot recall a embedded video on this forum. It would be nice.

You are right....I feel as if I'm walking in from a haze.....

where are we??

 

[Zultronova]

Embedding a Youtube video into a post in this forum is currently not possible.

 

[DominicDecoco]

We can barely post gif pictures in here.

I believe this has been suggested a couple of times before - obviously with no reaction since that seems to be the way people run this site.

One would call the lack of energy for the forum strange since Cyclingnews.com would be dead without its forum.

Priorities I guess..

 

[hiero2]

Limited html capacity does have some advantages - a hacker could put hostile code in a full html post. Given tempers and all, and how easy it is to post? Could get ugly!

 

[Ferminal]

Yeh html shouldn't really be on for public.

Doesn't mean you can't have Youtube embed.

Although, if your forum is this limited, html probably would be good

 

[krebs303]

In the other forum where I post you merely copy and paste the YouTube URL and it embeds it automatically. It's all handled by the forum software.

 

[red_flanders]

I have seen other people embed a YouTube video on a page in their post. How do you do this?

I have at times done a fairly major hack to achieve the effect (somewhat) of embedding a video. I screen capture a video and save it as an image. I then crop it to size in Photoshop and overlay a custom created "play button" graphic over the top of the image. I then link that image to the source video on YouTube or Vimeo or whatever other site. The effect is that when the reader clicks on the "play button" it launches the actual host site (YouTube, Vimeo, whatever) and plays the video from which I created the capture.

 

[ElChingon]

Although, if your forum is this limited, html probably would be good

Careful what you wish for

 

[Big Daddy]

I have at times done a fairly major hack to achieve the effect (somewhat) of embedding a video. I screen capture a video and save it as an image. I then crop it to size in Photoshop and overlay a custom created "play button" graphic over the top of the image. I then link that image to the source video on YouTube or Vimeo or whatever other site. The effect is that when the reader clicks on the "play button" it launches the actual host site (YouTube, Vimeo, whatever) and plays the video from which I created the capture.

That is a ton of work! Hey admins, please look into adding a "embed video" feature to this forum. This is the premiere cycling news forum on the Internet and a lot of great news stories are no video.

 

[krebs303]

 

[Big Daddy]

Lets get a video of that one on the right pls.