Embedding YouTube videos again!

[Chris Cairns]

Trying to embed a YouTube video and it has got me stumped this time.

1. The old embed code option has disappeared from my YouTube videos again.

2. If I use the iframe coding that comes from YouTube it will not work on here but quite happily works on another myfreeforums - http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/about72288.html

3. If I use the [video] coding it wants me to download a Windows Media Player plug in for Google Chrome.

So I managed to get my YouTube video to embed using the <embed coding as listed in this Topic - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/abou ... d&start=15

Other members seem to have no problems posting embedded YouTube videos so what method are you using?

Chris Cairns.

[andymctractor]

Hi Chris,
you know I'm not the most IT literate member so you won't be surprised to know that I'm don't really know what you are describing as a problem. When I put link to a You Tube video on here I click 'share' then copy the details in the box below and paste that into the forum message. If I click the embed button the details are very different. Don't know if this helps.
Apologies of course if what I'm saying is irrelevant.

[Chris Cairns]

Thank you for your reply Andy.

If I select Embed on YouTube and copy the iframe coding it does not work in these Forums -

<iframe width="640" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gNTZBAdSSC8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Yet on another myfreeforums this iframe coding does work. I've checked my profile settings and they are the same on both Forums. And rather bizarrely the old embed code option has re-appeared on YouTube!

Chris Cairns.

[Superbiker_uk]

Hi Chris - to use embeded code here this is what you need -

<*embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fANW9yuGbrA?ve ... width="560" height="315"></embed*>

REMOVE the * at each end of the code. I just used that so you could read the code.

In this case fANW9yuGbrA is the YouTube unique video ID. Edit acordingly. You can also change auto play and video size.

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fANW9yuGbrA?ve ... width="560" height="315"></embed>

So your video with the ID gNTZBAdSSC8

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNTZBAdSSC8?ve ... width="560" height="315"></embed>

[andymctractor]

Now I realise the difference between embedding a video on the forum and sharing one by just putting in a link.  
Might even try it myself.

Let's see what happens, if anything.
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Krfuf4zEM-4?ve ... autoplay=0" width="560" height="315"></embed>

and it works.

WOW

[Chris Cairns]

Peter, that is what I did to get my embedded video to work here - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about8561.html

However on the Unofficial Mamod Forums I just used the iframe code that YouTube provides which worked here - http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/16mm_ ... 72288.html

I thought that both these Forums used the same phpBB code but there is obviously a difference somewhere, so I guess it must be down to an admin panel setting somewhere.

Do you use the same method for embedding on both Forums, and if so have you just tried just using the YouTube iframe coding on the Unofficial Mamod Forums?

Chris Cairns.

[kandnwlr]

Now I realise the difference between embedding a video on the forum and sharing one by just putting in a link.  
Might even try it myself.

Let's see what happens, if anything.

and it works.  

WOW  :wav:

Nice video in any case. Thanks for sharing

[Superbiker_uk]

Peter, that is what I did to get my embedded video to work here - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about8561.html

However on the Unofficial Mamod Forums I just used the iframe code that YouTube provides which worked here - http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/16mm_ ... 72288.html

I thought that both these Forums used the same phpBB code but there is obviously a difference somewhere, so I guess it must be down to an admin panel setting somewhere.

Do you use the same method for embedding on both Forums, and if so have you just tried just using the YouTube iframe coding on the Unofficial Mamod Forums?

Chris Cairns.

Hi Chris - I may have got the 'wrong end of the stick' so to speak. I thought you were asking how to do it.

This subject has come up before on the forum and that is when I posted about how to write the embed code that works on this forum. I note as you have that the 'normal' embed code provided by YouTube works on the UMAOSF but it does not work on here. Hence the work around solution to embed the video rather than post a link.

Hope that makes sense