Inky Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I never used to have problems posting a link to Youtube videos. I would paste the link, and it would embed the video. Now, I have to use the [youtube] [/youtube] tags and even that doesn't always work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 It seems YouTube has various different URL schemes they use now, and some of them are newer relative to the age of this forum software. The forum is going to be upgraded very soon now and these should all work again properly after the upgrade (and also be easier to keep up to date). ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Works fine sometimes, other times not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I think I figured it out.. if you enable BBCode mode , it automagically places it in URL format. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_W_OKX7Vo Once you turn off BBCode mode you can see what it's doing. So for now the solution is to just turn off that mode (which is usually my default anyway) and just paste the plain youtube URL in, and that should embed it fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I usually paste URLs directly as well -- I never use the BBCode for that (and BBCode is going away in the new forum). Still doesn't work many times. I can easily adjust the BBCode, though, so it transmogrifies the URL into something YouTube recognizes. Although it's not a priority since this forum will be upgraded soon. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Like Albert said, this crusty old forum software only recognizes youtube.com. If you click on Share at YouTube under a video, you'll get the newer youtu.be version of the address and the forum software won't put the embed tags around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 That doesn't appear to be true.. here's a video shared using the youtu.be format. Again, simply turn off the bbcode then paste in your video link (at least for now until Al updates) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 That doesn't appear to be true.. here's a video shared using the youtu.be format. Again, simply turn off the bbcode then paste in your video link (at least for now until Al updates) https://youtu.be/u9O8qHtxpZo Last time I tried that, the forum software didn't display anything. I always switch modes to be sure the code is correct. When did that start working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Who knows. Just trying to help out anyone who wants to post youtube vids currently until Al does the upgrade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 I guess there are many ways to skin this cat... I always use the Media BBCode and never had a problem https://youtu.be/caH2pspeEFc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tane Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 How To Embed A YouTube Video in AtariAge Use this tool, the copy & paste the video at the right to the post in the forum: https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_youtubeiframe - Edit the size and the code of the video. For size: width="600" height="338" is Ok. - Then at the right, where the video shows-up: right button in the white, "select all", then again right button, "Copy". Then paste it in the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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