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How do you post a YouTube video?

kelle · 2009-09-05 16:27:18

Rather than just providing a link, how do you post an actual video? i guess it has something to do with embedding, but I tried that and it didn't work! Like this

05-09-2009 4:27pm

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kelle

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Rather than just providing a link, how do you post an actual video? i guess it has something to do with embedding, but I tried that and it didn't work!

Like this

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#2 05-09-2009 4:30pm

Gordon

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If you ever want to know how someone does something like that, quote the post, it usually works.
[noparse]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCWK_wbYgdE
[/noparse]

ie - only use the code of the youtube video to drop it inside the youtube tags.

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#3 05-09-2009 5:58pm

kelle

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I did that Gordon, but I can't figure out where those letters in the middle come from!

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#4 05-09-2009 6:00pm

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Look at the link of the YouTube video: for example if it was youtube.com/watch?v=a1_f4xcjw3 then you take the a1_f4xcjw3 part, and put it between the

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#5 05-09-2009 6:01pm

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Ha, I just figured out the code you mentioned- thanks Gordon!

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#6 05-09-2009 6:03pm

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Thank you too, BuffyBot. I would have used the "Thanks" function but it isn't available here!

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