How to post YouTube Movies as Flash on our boards

[BBloke]

Hi all,

I know JonnyWhy (I think) posted how to post a youtube video on our boards using the FLASH button above and getting the URL just right well here's an easier way.

You can now use phpBB codes to embed youtube vids. It's pretty damn easy.

1. Grab the video code from the URL. This is the part after the =.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScOj4e0bOQ

Becomes:

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bScOj4e0bOQ

and Use the "youtube" button at the top of the Full Message Editor or type it in manually.

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[youtube]bScOj4e0bOQ[/youtube]

You Tube Direct Link



Alternatively you can do it the old fashion way!

Find your Youtube video:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScOj4e0bOQ

Use the flash button:

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[flash][/flash]

and change the you tube url to work with flash:

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[flash=425,320]http://www.youtube.com/v/bScOj4e0bOQ[/flash]

Notice the 425, 320. Thats the width and height of the video (you can find this on the youtube page somewhere.

Notice also the removal of watch? and changing the = to /.


Here's a graphical example created by Don the3 Run Assassin.

[Del]

ah cool, it works again

that was the way we used to post flash vids here before youtube did their widescreen thing. That broke the method you detail here, which is why I switched to the other way (also shows widescreen correctly tho)
never thought to check it again, but glad it's working. That means all the old embedded vids will be working again too instead of being plain white screens. Whoop!

Regardless of method used, you still have to lob in the old x,y for size

[Bloodblood]

Cool now I can do this!

[flash=425, 320]http://www.youtube.com/v/RmMfkEwU2tw[/flash]

what has gone wrong please tell me.

[Johnimus Prime]

You have an extra space between the numbers specifying the window size

[FoxoF]

[Bloodblood]

COOL! YAY thanks.

[.genetix]

I still cant get that right lol, Bloke is always editing my fatal you tube links.

[Johnimus Prime]

I still cant get that right lol, Bloke is always editing my fatal you tube links.

I'm surprised he isn't deleting them

[BBloke]

1st post edited with graphic example. Thanks Don!

[MountieXXL]

Here's a way to force High Quality!

- Do everything you did above, except for the resolution, click on the config button beside the "Embedded" field on Youtube, and choose the highest possible resolution (usually something like 640x505)

- add "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" to the end of the link

so this:

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[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/v/gqU_0xpILIU&ap=[/flash]

ends up looking like this:

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[flash=640,505]http://www.youtube.com/v/gqU_0xpILIU&ap=%2526fmt%3D18[/flash]