Guide to embedding Youtube videos

[Wobbly]

Ok, all things going well you should now be able to add a direct link to youtube videos in your posts. It took a bit of hacking about and plagiarising someone else's hard work :lol2: but should work OK.

When you want to embed a video, just copy the youtube URL for it and then put it between a pair of 'youtube' tags (same as for images).

Eg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzrTjufbGs

YouTube - supermoto

[Wobbly]

Forgive mark's deplorable taste in music though :lol2:

[MarkeeMark]

haha fark you too! LOL it was the perfect length for the vid!

[Wobbly]

:lol2:

[Daws]

cool bananas. Does this only work for Youtube or any flash based video sites?

I'll try it out and report back...

I can only get Youtube vids to work (out of my massive sample of 2 other sites!) so I'd say it's youtube only.

seems like a good excuse to post this old chestnut again...

YouTube - team scream supermoto

[Wobbly]

Youtube only unfortunately. I could support other video sites, but its a lot of screwing around with regexps and embedded partial URLs in PHP code etc etc so I'll only do it if there's a super hot demand :)

[tambi]

The "youtube" tags are where? All I can see is Quote, Code, List List=, IMG and URL :oops:

[albonator316]

The "youtube" tags are where? All I can see is Quote, Code, List List=, IMG and URL :oops:

I think you have to type it in yourself as yet.
Geez neil you expect us to type that everytime? :P :lol: just kidding
youtube insert will save my ram cos i always have to many windows open

[tambi]

Cheers mate, now I can ad IT specialist to my already outstanding resume :D