How to embed YouTube videos in your post!

[deadpool]

How to embed YouTube videos or, why click that link when I can watch it from here?

Step 1) when you find whichever YouTube video you want to embed on YouTube itself, click the "<Embed>" button.
Step 2) scroll through the code until you find this:

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<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tystxA2KdHs&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tystxA2KdHs&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

On the fourth line of that code, is what you want, the "http://www.youtube.com/v/tystxA2KdHs&hl=en_US&fs=1" part. Just after <embed src=">

Step 3) Up top where all your formatting options are (bold, italics, underline etc is) click Flash. It should come up with two BB codes [Flash=], and [/Flash]. After the =, enter height & width of the video, example "=640,385" but without quotes. All you need is that comma to separate the height & width.Then put the link you want between the tags.

Example [ flash=640,480]http://www.youtube.com/v/tystxA2KdHs&hl=en_US&fs=1[ /flash] (i added in spaces so it wouldn't actually embed it.

Step 4) Click preview to make sure you got it right, sometimes it will take some time to load. But more often than not give it a few seconds.
Step 5) Click submit and bam, embedded YouTube videos again!

Now, all someone has to do is sticky this or something, and we're set.

[Dion]

Thanks Alex

Just tested it out your a pure genius, thanks heaps.

Made the thread a sticky

[Reese Ella]

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