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Posting Videos in Threads:

Once you have a video uploaded to youtube, if you are on the youtube site watching the video, grab the URL from your address bar:
If the YT link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t11klyI91g


Now, go back to your NDL Forums and click on the youtube button in the row of tools such as bold, italic, underline, quote, etc., out to the right, you will see a youtube button as you can see in the pic below:



In your thread where you want to embed the video, clicking that button will give you:
[youtube][/youtube]

Now simply place the ID# (1t11klyI91g) after the equals sign from your youtube URL.
From above, we had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t11klyI91g, so we would put in 1t11klyI91g within the youtube brackets.

This will now embed your youtube video within your thread posting.





Posting Videos in your Recaps:
To post videos in your recaps, On your team schedule, click on the Preview link for your team, then click on the Team Stats link.



Now click on the "Preview Recap Wizard Link" on your Team Stats page.




Towards the bottom of the page, you will see the available tags that you can put in your recap.
For Youtube videos, you will see this: (youtube video) http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_zeQRmVz1A




So as I am writing up my recap, if I want to include a video, I would have all of my text typed out that is telling my story and then I would type in the you tube tags manually of [youtube][/youtube]

Then take the video link like I posted above, http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OVchjZPa9Q
Take out everything after the v= and paste that within the youtube tags of [youtube][/youtube].

So I would paste in the 9OVchjZPa9Q within the youtube tags.
Once you submit your recap, the youtube video will be embedded within your recap.


Let me know if you have any questions.

Mike had this already created:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5627

I wanted to add pictures to hopefully clear up any confusion.

There is also this thread for embedding EA Sportsworld videos.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17235
and
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2121

Can an admin sticky this thread?

Hd link doesnt work.

swellvermin wrote:Hd link doesnt work.

It worked for me.

Give me the URL of the video you are trying to embed please and let's take a look at it.

hd link
http://youtu.be/tzaXuKs9vhc?hd=1

hd link and long link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzaXuKs9vhc&hd=1


which one is the correct one to use with the youtubehd code for posts?

[youtubehd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzaXuKs9vhc[/youtubehd]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzaXuKs9vhc[/youtube]

swellvermin wrote:hd link
http://youtu.be/tzaXuKs9vhc?hd=1

hd link and long link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzaXuKs9vhc&hd=1


which one is the correct one to use with the youtubehd code for posts?

So I got it to work, you can see in my post above, the HD one just makes it bigger.

I had to use your HD, Long link and take off the &hd=1...
So I pasted in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzaXuKs9vhc

I will update my first post with this information.

LEGIT.

what about a GIF? how the hell do you post these things...

mbyrd75 wrote:what about a GIF? how the hell do you post these things...

[img]url[/img]

YouTube has taken out the "long link" option. Tried to embed a video in the forum threads just now, did not work with either the shortened link or the link from firefox address bar. Any info on how to fix this?

Still works fine for me. I fixed the link for you in CoD thread.

BIGmike wrote:Still works fine for me. I fixed the link for you in CoD thread.

Yeah, thanks. I dunno, I went to "share" on that video and no option for long link on my browser (FireFox 17.0.1)

I updated the first post with currents steps to embed videos within threads and I included a note to remove "S" if your youtube video URL starts off with https.

I saw that swelly, thanks...and I updated my first post in this thread to include this information.

So with the new Youtube coding we've lost HD/wide videos, and the ability to go full-screen on embedded

jsence2 wrote:So with the new Youtube coding we've lost HD/wide videos, and the ability to go full-screen on embedded

I'm going to look more into it this week. Neither code was working so I wanted to get something on the site that actually worked.