Hi folks,
If you have been using the forum, you'll notice this new BBCode in the posting area, right under BBCodes such as "B" (bold) "i" (italics) etc.
Purpose:
This allows you to embed a video that is stored at a publicly accessible location, such as youtube.
How to Use:
- When you are watching a YouTube video, you'll see on the right, in the info box for that video, an "embed" code.
(If the video is stored in a different publicly accessible web location, you will need to figure out how/where to get the embed code. The procedure to get this code is different for different sites.)
It looks something like this:<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.url_of_video_blah_blah"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.url_of_video_blah_blah" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> - To embed this video in your post, place your cursor at the place in your post where you want to embed the video.
Click on the "embed_video" BBCode above the posting box.
This places [embed_video][/embed_video] in your post. - Copy from YouTube (or whatever other site) the url of the video you want to embed. In the example above, it would be http:// www. url_of_video_blah_blah.
- Paste this url in between the BBCode tags.
[embed_video]http://www.url_of_video_blah_blah [/embed_video]
Note that no quotes are needed around the url. -
Techy note: Note that the way this BBCode is designed is based on the Youtube html code. Even if your video is stored on a different website, and the embedding code they give you may be somewhat different, this is still the actual html code that our BBCode will "resolve to" within this forum. (Don't worry if this is gibberish. )
Voila! Here is an example of an embeded video:
