Examples of Embedding Video at HH
May 2, 2015 11:50:49 GMT -6
Glencairn, theboyinadress, and 1 more like this
Post by Deleted on May 2, 2015 11:50:49 GMT -6
There have been some questions and confusion recently about embedding links and videos. For links, I'll just say that you really NEED to use the link/URL button and not simply post the raw URL. This forum software will recognize and "link" what it sees at a URL, but that is NOT the same thing as allowing someone to follow what you linked. Depending on where you post raw links, that may or may not work at all.
Using the URL button always works.
On Video! Please, be kind, as this is my first video out of a new software I'm working with for it and audio did not come through. However, it does show the part of the URL you want, and where/how to post it with both Youtube and Vimeo videos.
In addition, this help video is nothing but an MP4 video sitting in a directory on my web server. Nothing more, and nothing fancy. Quote this message as if you were going to reply, and change to BBCode view to see what the link for a standard file looks like in posting it.
The & and everything to the right of that is LEFT OFF. Sometimes it'll be short like that and sometimes it'll have A LOT MORE.
Whatever.
It doesn't matter. Nothing after what it is yellow matters or should be copied to paste a video from YouTube.
Likewise, make sure what IS in yellow IS there for a YouTube. The URL above is the one a member was having an issue with earlier, and the version that went into the post was missing the 'watch' part. So the direct URL did load the right youtube page w/ video....but the player couldn't recognize it as a video to play.
Vimeo and other services may or may not require that type of text in the URL (Vimeo doesn't), but YouTube definitely does have a specific way it has to be. One character too many or typo'ed and it won't work.
Using the URL button always works.
On Video! Please, be kind, as this is my first video out of a new software I'm working with for it and audio did not come through. However, it does show the part of the URL you want, and where/how to post it with both Youtube and Vimeo videos.
In addition, this help video is nothing but an MP4 video sitting in a directory on my web server. Nothing more, and nothing fancy. Quote this message as if you were going to reply, and change to BBCode view to see what the link for a standard file looks like in posting it.
Try to imagine what the audio was supposed to be. 
The steps are clear without it tho.
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On a side note! Some recent issues have arisen with folks who definitely know the above process and videos were not loading properly. In looking at one earlier, there was a major problem with the pasted URL and I don't know how it got to be what way.
In the URL: https: //www . youtube. com /watch?v=KBYBSX-lNsI&feature=youtu.be
The steps are clear without it tho.----
On a side note! Some recent issues have arisen with folks who definitely know the above process and videos were not loading properly. In looking at one earlier, there was a major problem with the pasted URL and I don't know how it got to be what way.
In the URL: https: //www . youtube. com /watch?v=KBYBSX-lNsI&feature=youtu.be
The & and everything to the right of that is LEFT OFF. Sometimes it'll be short like that and sometimes it'll have A LOT MORE.
Whatever.
It doesn't matter. Nothing after what it is yellow matters or should be copied to paste a video from YouTube.
Likewise, make sure what IS in yellow IS there for a YouTube. The URL above is the one a member was having an issue with earlier, and the version that went into the post was missing the 'watch' part. So the direct URL did load the right youtube page w/ video....but the player couldn't recognize it as a video to play.
Vimeo and other services may or may not require that type of text in the URL (Vimeo doesn't), but YouTube definitely does have a specific way it has to be. One character too many or typo'ed and it won't work.