How many thousand times will we have to explain how to utube embed before.., page 1

reply to post by king9072

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well some of us actually do that and for some strange reason only known to the Gods of the internet, it does not work.
But thanks for the input

reply to post by king9072

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Because it's not always what's after the = sign. Sometimes, like if you're viewing something in a playlist, or in other cases, there is extra coding after the YouTube video code.

That might be what's going on here. Sometimes you have to isolate the video number from inside the URL.

[edit on 7/30/2009 by ravenshadow13]

Sigh.

Let me clarify cause I know what you are trying to say.

Here's an example of a regular youtube link:

www.youtube.com...

Heres an example of an extended youtube link:

www.youtube.com...


The only information ever needed is after the = sign, and before the & sign. I know at first it's confusing, but it really isn't that confusing. And any further explanation that was added to the popup would no doubt (at very least) reduce the amount of times people need to be told.

reply to post by king9072

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even doing the code after the = and before the & gave me this

PgFqzNoisG4 in the code used

the preview however shows no video whch does get confusing

[edit on 30-7-2009 by munkey66]

Ok I absolutely cannot embed videos. I have tried to no end and someone even U2U'd me and tried to explain the "After the =".

From what I understand what I am supposed to do with say this link ...

www.youtube.com...

When I go to that Webpage there is a link to the right that says

URL
EMBED

I am under the impression that I copy and paste the "Embed" link that is there.

There are like 15 = signs in that link!

Which equal sign is the right equal sign?

Or am I only supposed to copy the ten digit code in the URL at the top of the page after the hppt//www.youtubedotcom/watch?= Is this what I put the ten random letters and numbers after the equal or the actual embed code?

I is confused????

reply to post by TurkeyBurgers

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Originally posted by TurkeyBurgers
Ok I absolutely cannot embed videos. I have tried to no end and someone even U2U'd me and tried to explain the "After the =".

From what I understand what I am supposed to do with say this link ...

www.youtube...

When I go to that Webpage there is a link to the right that says

URL
EMBED

I am under the impression that I copy and paste the "Embed" link that is there.

There are like 15 = signs in that link!

Which equal sign is the right equal sign?

Or am I only supposed to copy the ten digit code in the URL at the top of the page after the hppt//www.youtubedotcom/watch?= Is this what I put the ten random letters and numbers after the equal or the actual embed code?

I is confused????

K i am going to remove everything up to .com

.com/watch?v=qgpM0XIxfh8

To embed that, all you need is everything after the = sign:

qgpM0XIxfh8

That's it.

Sometimes you'll see something like this:

.com/watch?v=qgpM0XIxfh8&relatedfdshafdsfudasuf9dasfjafsudf8-w90u89eu89fuwa8fduf8udsf89uaf89udasf89udasfawe89fuwafew89uaf89uwaef89uwdfuw\

Doesn't matter how long the rest of it is... all u look for is the = sign right after "watch?v"

Then, ignore everything at the & sign and after... so that huge, ugly link above... again shortens to:

qgpM0XIxfh8

reply to post by king9072

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It's ok king, calm down buddy ...

We have loads of new member joining every day. I know it can be frustrating but a deep breath, then, quote their post and you can extract the link from the text.

For the others just hit the youtube button on top above the post box and enter all the characters from the url after = . If it's part of the playlist, enter the characters between the = and the &.

So you get this:

reply to post by TurkeyBurgers

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Thia is what you need to put between the [y vid] [/yvid] brackets....

www.youtube.com...F-nLny67kPI

You can find this in the grey box in the upper right hand corner of the screen, it is in the "url" space.

Only place the underlined part in between the brackets, and make sure there are no spaces in between anything, unlike mine, which I did so it did not code.

[edit on 7/30/2009 by jkrog08]

reply to post by TurkeyBurgers

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You gotta copy what's after the = in address bar of the youtube vid.

In this case the address is www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgpM0XIxfh8

You need to copy qgpM0XIxfh8

Then come back to your ATS reply/new post page and click this button at the top:



Then press ok.

Successful youtube vid embed.



[edit on 30/7/09 by Chadwickus]

Right at the moment I would like to tear some hair out. I have a whole thread full of black boxes because I couldn't get it right.

This just cannot be so. The world does not work this easy for me. Either that or I just stepped into a alternate dimension or some crap. I'm going to try another and see if this is right.



[edit on 7/30/2009 by TheLoony]

Well I'll be dipped in some, er, bad stuff. One question: Those links don't have the & sign. I just used the characters after the = sign. There must have been different numbers or something in the videos I have tried before. Either that or I'm just plain stupid and can't do simple tasks.

[edit on 7/30/2009 by TheLoony]

Testing

reply to post by king9072

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This maybe add to the confusion but it helps me.

When I embed a youtube vid and there are just numbers and letters after the v= eg v=qgpM0XIxfh8 I get problems. Like it won't show in the preview.

It sounds dumb, but I just add '&Feature=Related' on the end and I can see it, and it embeds fine.

On the odd occasion it doesn't work, I select a video from the related box and see what they have after it, and add that instead.

This may confuse some people more, but it gets around not seeing the vid in the preview.

For example v= jqe7yuUdKSY



Doesn't show in the preview but does embed.

But when I put jqe7yuUdKSY&Feature=Related into the embed youtube video box, not only does the video embed, but I can see it in the preview so I know it's there.

Sounds crazy I know but it works, try it.




[edit on 30-7-2009 by kiwifoot]

[edit on 30-7-2009 by kiwifoot]

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