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plax
10-27-2016, 08:19 PM
Revised: 12/30/16

Taking into account that we are now redirecting to the [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks] version pages of our website, I am revising the instruction on how to embed YouTube videos within forum posts.


In order to embed a YouTube-hosted video within the body of a forum post, any of the following 5 examples will work:


[Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]


[Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]


[Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]


[Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]


[Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]


The following example, a short URL calling [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks] protocol, will NOT work:


[Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]


Irrespective of which link format you choose, you may either manually type the
tags before and after a YouTube video address, or you may click on the 'Insert Video' button on the editor toolbar (the one with a filmstrip icon) and paste or type the YouTube video address (minus the tags) into the dialog box and then click 'OK'. Both methods should work fine.

I hope this is helpful.
Dragonlady2
10-27-2016, 08:25 PM
Thank you....couldn't figure out why it didn't work?
plax
10-27-2016, 09:37 PM
Thank you....couldn't figure out why it didn't work?You're welcome.
Casper's 2nd best friend
10-28-2016, 10:20 PM
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but as I understand it the s stands for secure or something so it must be blocking the access whereas everyone can access [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]
am I right? :)
plax
10-29-2016, 12:24 AM
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but as I understand it the s stands for secure or something so it must be blocking the access whereas everyone can access [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks]
am I right? :)
That's kind of close, Jean-Pierre. The "s" from [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks] protocol indeed does stand for "secure" - short for Secure Socket Layer (or SSL). But actually, it's not that our members can't access [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks] websites - I'm sure we probably all can. Instead, it's that the vBulletin software can't negotiate properly with the SSL layer to establish secure connections on remotely embedded videos. One could say that our forum software is behind the times a bit ;)

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Lady
10-29-2016, 02:20 AM
Ahh, I like it when even I can understand what I'm reading and how to make it work! Thanks once again Tony.
plax
10-29-2016, 05:41 PM
I'm glad the info is useful, Alice :)
plax
12-30-2016, 03:25 PM
For those interested in embedding YouTube videos, please have a look at my revision to the thread starter post herein.
Lady
12-30-2016, 08:24 PM
Ugh, guess a new version is due to the [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks] thingy.
plax
12-30-2016, 10:17 PM
Ugh, guess a new version is due to the [Users must be registered and logged in to view attached photos or hyperlinks] thingy.There are actually more options now. The same rule about dropping the "s" from a short-style YouTube URL to call forth the embedded player still applies. Which is to say that the "s" being present in a short-style YouTube URL will not call forth the embedded player. So you can still use this rule :)