(how to do) video embedding on HOP

HOP now automatically embeds youtube!!!!!

what you have to do is create a proper reply, click on 'URL' in the Instant UBB Code section, and paste your youtube url into both the url and title boxes...
thats this url (the one with the arrow pointing at it), not the one from the browser bar....


enjoy

Well spotted Mr Cat!!
Malcolm just finished doing this late last night.

Here's the instructions:
http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbthreads/faq.php?Cat=0#youtube
(make sure you get the right link to paste in)

Enjoy!
George

That's a good idea

Nice to see hop keeps up to date with what's going on over at spherculism

m

(and the rest of the web matt! )

uhm... all the urls for the videos in my vid thread *are* from the browser bar, yet they still embedded themselves. is there anyway to have it so it just links?

that aside.. wonderful going malcolm

Pete

You can remove the www from in front of youtube.com and it will not embed.
Or on your video settings at youtube you can set to not allow embedding of your video.

Wibbler

Did not know you also doing the same thing. I copied the embedding code from youtube. I think it is a great feature and many other sites have taken advantage of it

Malcolm

hmmm, gave it a go then, still embedded. also, embedding of my first two videos in my thread is turned off, the video comes up, but when play is pressed, it says 'the use has chosen to not allow this video to be embedded, click here' or something like that.

p.s. not wanting to sound like im complaining.. just thought id let you know

also, come to think of it... could it be that im using firefox?

Great feature, Malcolm Thanks for that

incidentally, the best way i've found to get the actual url of something you like and want to share is to quote the post that contains that video, then copy and paste. is there a better way?

hmmm, to clarify.. it doesnt matter which URL you use. you can use the one from the address bar (up the top of the screen) and it works perfectly

to *not* show a video however, you have to remove the "http://www." part so its just "youtube.com/etc"

I realised how to link to a video, and keep it as a clickable link that you name yourself, you just need to insert a variable after the ? with normal address notation. Don't worry, example to follow for all you lovely non webgeeks

(space added before the = to stop the url= becoming a link, so you can see)

eg : [url =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OwUFh_Fbp4]this text wont be shown because of the video being embeded[/url]

becomes: [url =http://www.youtube.com/watch?foo=0&v=3OwUFh_Fbp4]this text WILL show as a normal HoP link[/url]

proof : Enjoy the Hyperlight Video

this can also be done when you want to just drop a quick link in without the URL tags

http://www.youtube.com/watch?foo=0&v=3OwUFh_Fbp4

HoP will convert it to a link with the same text as the URL, and youtube will just ignore the foo=0 completely.

so the addition to break the auto embedding (foo=0& in the example) starts immediately after the ? give the variable any alphabetical name (foo was the example anything from the alphabet works, one character or more) = 0 (a value, again anything works) and importantly an ampersand (&)before the actual video id (the v= bit at the end of all youtube video urls)

I hope that's decipherable to those that wish to link rather than embed

erm.. yakumo, i just posted a slightly simpler, yet just as effective alternative above you

putting [url =youtube.com/watch?v=3OwUFh_Fbp4]mylink[/url]
gives a broken link to "http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbthreads/youtube.com/watch?v=3OwUFh_Fbp4"
though. (as without the http:// it ends up relative to current directory on the server)

and just
youtube.com/watch?v=3OwUFh_Fbp4
doesn't create a link at all as the bbcode link parser is seeking http:// or www.

hence my post above

aha, my mistake.. what you do, is remove the 'www.' but keep the 'http://'

ie. [ url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJz02Nh99Cs]testing testing[/url] produces testing testing

arg, how did i not try that
, I'll blame UCoF for the slave labour

awesome vid btw

Shuddup bitch, get back to work!

What's happening?

I notice a lot of (my) links, instead of embedded vids lately... anything not working or new procedure we should know about?



[edit) Problem solved. LTC made me aware that due to my regional settings of youtube, the links always contain a country coding ahead of the url (like .uk or .de) and looks something like this:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Amkphd9Mo

http://de.

This way it doesn't embed - it needs to be in this fashion:

http://www.



if you got regional settings on youtube (upper right button "site" needs to be set to "global" or they will add country abbreviations to all URLs) you need to copy the URL and manually exchange ".dk .uk .pl .de" (or whatever your extension is) with "www." or the video won't embed.

Does anyone know if HoP can / will be able to embed videos from juggling-specific video hosting websites? (e.g. juggling.tv). Looks like the ones that have sprung up are here to stay so may be worth the (undoubtedly considerable) effort?

I haven't tried using the 'embed' code from these sites in posts as I'm guessing it's for embedding into websites and not UBB, but please let me know if I should.

(I did a search, but I haven't been around for a while so I might have missed some obvious developments)

Thanks in advance

p.s. sorry if this double-posts as the last attempt hanged

this is so cool