How do I embed videos?

Azaran on 27/1/2012 at 09:55

It seems like I'm the only member who can't embed videos into my posts. I use the "insert video" tag, but when I submit a post, there's no video, just some code like:

******** class="restrain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/-LEb_D2SD3k">

What am I missing?

Al_B on 27/1/2012 at 13:32

I haven't tried it recently but from the "Now what are you playing" thread:

Quote Posted by Al_B

What does appear to work is to tick the "Use Old Embed Code" option on youtube. Take just the embed element including closing tag and paste that in. In my case I also had to replace instances of &amp; to a simple &. For example:

PHP:

works for me. (Not actually PHP but the other code tag was being interpreted instead of displayed).

Azaran on 28/1/2012 at 10:45

nickie on 31/1/2012 at 14:01

I really must play this again!

Al_B on 3/7/2012 at 11:34

The "Insert video" button should now work for youtube videos so the above work-around is not required if you're happy with the default video options.

SubJeff on 4/7/2012 at 11:22

[video=youtube;ypGxYM3MHqY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypGxYM3MHqY&start=18[/video]

18s in.

Embed video won't allow timed starts :(

Kolya on 4/7/2012 at 12:05

Of course you can. Replace "&t=0m18s" with "&start=18" in your embed code.

SubJeff on 4/7/2012 at 13:17

Afraid not old chap.

Al_B on 4/7/2012 at 13:43

Yes, you can - but you have to insert the embed code manually (as in the second post in this thread) rather than using the default settings from the video button:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ypGxYM3MHqY?version=3&hl=en_GB&start=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>

SubJeff on 4/7/2012 at 13:56

I'm supposed to be using a forum, not writing code. Can't you fix the embedding script?