From A Different World - Forums

So a lot of people are most likely confused about how the embedding of YouTube video works on the forums. It's true that we do have the YouTube BB codes, but most people are not using them correctly (and trust me, it took me a while to figure it out in the beginning). I should've just made this a long time ago.

As a link, I will use this example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
That's a standard YouTube link, it has the "http://youtube.com/" part, and then the "watch?v=" part, those two are basically YouTube's way to figure out what you wanna do. You're on YouTube to watch a video on the watch page.
When embedding a video on our forums (may be different on other forums), you forget the first part. What you want to get, is the video code after "watch?v=". Now this is different for every video, and letters are case-sensitive. From my example link, I will use fJ9rUzIMcZQ, since that is the video code.
Now take that code, and insert it in our YouTube BB code, my example would be: And you're done! It will now show the YouTube player in your post!

Just make sure not to post too many videos in one post/reply. Some computers don't have the resources to deal with so many Flash Players, just saying.
(PS: A lot of this info is not really important to you, but I added it anyways)

lol me too
I asked myself how do u do that?
and so I just went to a post and click reply and saw the code on how to do that!
but also a small request maybe just maybe alex that you add a button?

The YouTube button already exists when you post a reply. It's right below the "bold" and "italic" BB code buttons.

oh lol...........

I continuesly typed it out these past videos........ lol

Neat. How would I go about embedding an entire playlist into one video box?

Port_A_Build wrote:Neat. How would I go about embedding an entire playlist into one video box?

Hasn't been added. I might add it eventually, the BB code for it will probably be "ytplaylist", and it will use the same format as normal videos. Basically using the code behind "playlist?list=".

Perhaps this thread should be pinned somewhere.

HomeBrew wrote:Perhaps this thread should be pinned somewhere.

It's stickied in "Community Talk"? (this sub-forum)

This works for YouTube only?