Embedding video for technically challenged

[Dixie Chick]

Hello. Could someone tell me how to embed video? On this particular post, I see a "You Tube" option in the box but in other posts I don't see the option.

[Praxis]

Hi DC - it took me a while to get the hang of it as well, but once you do, it's really easy!

To poste a Youtube clip here, just insert the numbers at the end of the URL in between the stuff!

So, if the URL for the clip is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTKzg1K7Es

copy just the bit after the = sign (as bolded above) and paste them in between the square bracketed YouTube command. Voila! Embedded clip :)

Cheers.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Hello. Could someone tell me how to embed video? On this particular post, I see a "You Tube" option in the box but in other posts I don't see the option.Note that if you don't see the Youtube button, you enter whatever Praxis said in the middle of tags.

[Dixie Chick]

Thanks very much, do you actually type " " or are you supposed to see ""? If you are supposed to see where the heck is it?

[Dixie Chick]

oh heck my stuff between the quotes is missing. I typed-- open bracket-youtube-close bracket-- then-- open bracket-backslash-youtube-close bracket.

[Praxis]

No. When you see quote marks if someone is trying to teach you how to do something, when you actually come to do it, you do not use them. This is a reptty standard practice.

I thought my post was really clear on how to do it?

Here it is again though, using your style:

open square bracket YOUTUBE close square bracket paste the numbers at the end of the URL of the clip open square bracket forward slash YOU TUBE close square brackets

If you click the YouTube icon when making your post, the square bracket YouTube stuff comes up so you put your URL number in the middle of ]and[

So if the clip is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTKzg1K7Es you past just those numbers after the equals sign in between the You Tube stuff in square brackets.

[davo]

if the clip is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTKzg1K7Es

Type :

2LTKzg1K7Es

[Dixie Chick]

if the clip is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTKzg1K7Es

Type :

2LTKzg1K7Es

Thank you!

[Dixie Chick]

Thank you!

I'm practicing.


aYDfACr-y4s

[Dixie Chick]

2LTKzg1K7Es

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Not a bad start. :)

[Dixie Chick]

No. When you see quote marks if someone is trying to teach you how to do something, when you actually come to do it, you do not use them. This is a reptty standard practice.

I thought my post was really clear on how to do it?

Here it is again though, using your style:

open square bracket YOUTUBE close square bracket paste the numbers at the end of the URL of the clip open square bracket forward slash YOU TUBE close square brackets

If you click the YouTube icon when making your post, the square bracket YouTube stuff comes up so you put your URL number in the middle of ]and[

So if the clip is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTKzg1K7Es you past just those numbers after the equals sign in between the You Tube stuff in square brackets.

Thanks, Praxis, the quotes I was using were my own to try to show what I was typing - but - what I typed in them - disappeared... I do not know why

[Dixie Chick]

Not a bad start. :)

I can post that one but not the one I'm trying to - I get a big blank place. Then when I go back to youtube - I did not get anything with an = sign... (well I did one time, then didn't the other time - now I'm confused)...I give up for now, may try later, thanks.

[Dixie Chick]

I'm practicing.


aYDfACr-y4s
How did y'all do that???
Thanks! I need some help below in the Belgium Burka post!

[Dixie Chick]

The one you tried on post 10 (which I've fixed) had extra text. You had added http in there somehow.

Your code was this httpaYDfACr-y4s

it should be aYDfACr-y4s you added http by mistake..

Nearly there.. How do you record TV shows? :)

Thanks Protium! I don't record TV shows! And I got a new alarm clock that I can't set! Please come & help me!

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Don't forget to turn it off and then turn it back on again. ;)