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SMF For Free Support => General Support => Topic started by: taogem on June 21, 2011, 06:06:31 pm

Title: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: taogem on June 21, 2011, 06:06:31 pm
Forum Url: http://gemstone.smfforfree4.com/
When I hit the "share" button beneath the youtube video, it shows a link like this. http://youtu.be/Xy0SuMKmbvU

I can't figure out how to add the actual video within a post.

 

Title: Re: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: Seldom Fail on June 21, 2011, 06:53:17 pm
Just post the link. It will auto embed.
Title: Re: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: simply sibyl on June 21, 2011, 06:54:54 pm
The embedder does not seem to like the links that have youtube separated that way -  youtu.be  <--

What you can do is click the Share button then click the "Show Options" link to the right then click the "long link" box to the right of the code it gives you.   
Use that link -  just post it into a Post and it will embed the video.    Try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0SuMKmbvU
Title: Re: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: Seldom Fail on June 21, 2011, 07:00:20 pm
Oh! Didn't even notice the difference in the link.  :uglystupid2:
Title: Re: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: taogem on June 21, 2011, 08:50:31 pm
The embedder does not seem to like the links that have youtube separated that way -  youtu.be  <--

What you can do is click the Share button then click the "Show Options" link to the right then click the "long link" box to the right of the code it gives you.   
Use that link -  just post it into a Post and it will embed the video.    Try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0SuMKmbvU

That did the trick !

Thank you Sibyl  :) :)
Title: Re: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: Nicola O. on August 09, 2011, 10:19:49 pm
Hi there,
We recently moved to a for-pay hosted site with the free version of the software, and the video embedder does not seem to work any more.  Is there any kind of configuration change that we can make?  I tried using the long link and still no love.
Title: Re: Sharing a Youtube video on forum
Post by: SMF For Free on August 09, 2011, 10:33:20 pm
Most of the software on SMF For Free I built myself you can get that addon at
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2681

For my commercial software visit http://www.smfhacks.com