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How to embed media from Youtube. {{{UPDATED}}}

Magic

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The program that runs this forum makes it very easy to embed videos. There are two ways to do this:

1. The super simple way. Find the video you want. Copy the URL to the video and paste it in your post. (Thanks @Oldhippie for showing me this)

The URL is the web address to the video and look like this: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzmz76vfgfs



You can also find the URL to a video from a youtube playlist.
A playlist URL looks like this:
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_tQDCgeJg&list=PL3mcE8pqA9V91yewHyWRDA_-fWH5Fss6s

The portion of that URL that is specific to the video is everything before the "&". From the example above, the video URL is https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_tQDCgeJg


2. The next way to embed a video is using the built in media icon in the reply box. That Icon is found in the tool bar by clicking the "........". A drop down menu appears.

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You then click "media". Paste the video URL into the box.

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Using the playlist example above, here is how the URL to the video looks.

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BTW: That URL is to a Blackberry Smoke song!! :p
 
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Magic

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Just an update to embedding youtube videos. This is a Youtube change....not our software.

If you copy/paste a video URL directly into a post, all you will get is an official link to the video on Youtube.


You MUST use the media embed button if you want the video to appear in a post. You can find the media button by clicking the dots with an arrow and a drop down menu appears. Click Media.

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After clicking "Media" a pop up box appears asking for the url to the video.......along with a list of all the media sites you can embed in a post.

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Copy the URL to the video. Paste the URL into the "Enter media URL" box........Like the example below. Then click continue and your video will appear in your post.

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