Author Topic: Embedding Videos on the Forums (Read 4948 times)

Lithium · « **on:** November 29, 2006, 03:40:04 pm »

I've turned on the ability to embed video from YouTube and such into forum posts. However there are a few rules that I would like to see respected:

1. No Auto-Play Videos - Some members browse the forums at work, have limited connections, or just might not want to watch a video. No video should play automatically.

2. Only the following HTML tags are permitted:

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<iframe> <object> <embed> <param> <s>
Sample code should look something like:

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<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-IGug--fRUQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Or

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<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="blah"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="blah" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

3. No embedded code should break or make any part of the website nonfunctional - This should be very obvious.

4. Preview your post before submitting - Use the preview button to make sure your HTML works and doesn't break any rules.

Feel free to ask questions.

Bellthazor · « **Reply #1 on:** November 29, 2006, 04:15:59 pm »

very nice added feature

Styan · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2006, 07:37:42 am »

GJ lith! Thx

Anonymous · « **Reply #3 on:** November 30, 2006, 05:27:37 pm »

i'm an idiot and don't know what i'm doing with this.
can you help with the "movie" and "blah" parts? i don't know what to fill in the blanks.

Lithium · « **Reply #4 on:** November 30, 2006, 05:41:45 pm »

The code you use is next to the video on YouTube you just copy paste and it. So you don't need to fill in anything manually.

P.S. - "movie" is an attribute of the HTML tag, video URLs will be what I labeled as "blah" again YouTube provides the premade code with URLs