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(how to do) video embedding on HOPfind similar
21/03/07 05:17 AM
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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....
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21/03/07 08:42 AM
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Well spotted Mr Cat!! Malcolm just finished doing this late last night.
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21/03/07 04:22 PM
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That's a good idea
Nice to see hop keeps up to date with what's going on over at spherculism
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21/03/07 05:46 PM
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21/03/07 06:56 PM
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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
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23/03/07 08:09 AM
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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.
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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
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23/03/07 10:24 AM
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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
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23/03/07 10:31 AM
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also, come to think of it... could it be that im using firefox?
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25/03/07 05:45 PM
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Great feature, Malcolm Thanks for that
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02/05/07 03:16 AM
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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?
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02/05/07 02:01 PM
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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"
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14/07/07 12:18 PM
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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]
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
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15/07/07 01:46 AM
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erm.. yakumo, i just posted a slightly simpler, yet just as effective alternative above you
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15/07/07 05:46 AM
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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
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15/07/07 02:43 PM
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aha, my mistake.. what you do, is remove the 'www.' but keep the 'http://'
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16/07/07 06:48 AM
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arg, how did i not try that , I'll blame UCoF for the slave labour
awesome vid btw
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16/07/07 08:11 AM
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Shuddup bitch, get back to work!
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01/07/08 06:41 PM
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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:
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.
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21/03/07 08:42 AM
Thanks for that 
