How to post a video link?

Quickly: youtube tags only work on youtube, other site video has been posted using flash tags.

And the quote button is a preference, if you don't see it enable the preference.

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@Robert Gentel,

Ah.
I will investigate further, Robert. Actually, I didn't want to post video links from YouTube. I was interested in videos from news/media sites.

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@msolga,

That's usually pretty complex. You need to find the url to the flash file that serves their video, and often have to add in query parameters to it to tell it what video to play.

It's often doable, but you need to do things like read the source of the page, or build a special url that will play the video.

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@Robert Gentel,

Oh.

OK.

I'll do my best with that information , Robert.

If it's too complicated for me.... well then it's too complicated! Oh well ....

Thanks for telling me that. Much appreciated.

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@dlowan,

Ha! Deb, I was looking at this thread again today to take another look & came across this video you posted - which I couldn't see or hear before. I love it! Absolutely delightful! Very Happy

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@dlowan,

& the "water loving" cat in the bath! Laughing

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@msolga,

This sarcasm put me off trying to explain it better last time, but I've explained it a bit here:

http://able2know.org/topic/136311-1#post-3758090

If you have specific video sites in mind I can give more specific instructions for those sites but an open-ended question about posting videos leaves a lot to explain. The basics are there in that post though.

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@Robert Gentel,

Quote:

This sarcasm put me off trying to explain it better last time, but I've explained it a bit here:

http://able2know.org/topic/136311-1#post-3758090

If you have specific video sites in mind I can give more specific instructions for those sites but an open-ended question about posting videos leaves a lot to explain. The basics are there in that post though.

Thank you again, Robert.

But I think it'd be wise to master the YouTube link-thing first! Wink

(You were being sarcastic? Gosh, I was so caught up with trying to master the video link thing at the time that I didn't even notice. How dare you! Evil or Very Mad

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Youtube is very easy. Just go to the video you want to post, and on the right there is a "URL" to copy. Copy that and paste it into your post. So far that's pretty similar to just posting a link to youtube, so all you do next is highlight the youtube url and press quote (or anything really) on your bbcode toolbar. Replace the 'quote' part of the tag with 'youtube' and you are set.

This sounds a lot more complicated written out than it really is, so I made a quick video to show you. I have no microphone on this computer so it has no sound. But you should be able to follow along with the steps:

1) Copy url from youtube
2) Paste into a2k post window
3) Highlight the url
4) Quote it
5) Replace quote with youtube

The video ended up being pretty small on the embedded size, and is faster than I did the steps so let me know if it's hard to follow.

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@Robert Gentel,

Thank you!

That looks pretty straight-forward, Robert.

I will try again! And soon. (When most of A2K is sleeping. Smile

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Why waste all this good info on posting cat video's?!?

............takes cover.

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@Wilso,

To each his own, Wilso, to each his own ..... Smile

So, OK ..... wanna post a really, really good non-cat video, then? Wink

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@msolga,

The greatest player in the game today scoring the best try of the season in the "Greatest game of all" - Rugby League.

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@Wilso,

Thank you, Wilso!
(You funny thing! This is an improvement on cats??! Laughing

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@msolga,

Could any future brilliant video examples (from any of you) be sent here:

http://able2know.org/topic/135880-1

So's to keep this thread free for "technical stuff".

Thanks.

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@Robert Gentel,

Nothing of interest to anyone here, I promise you.

I've just re-posted Robert's instructions - for easy access - & I'm going to do a few test tries. See what happens.

So carry on on your other threads. This promises to be boring!

Quote:

Youtube is very easy. Just go to the video you want to post, and on the right there is a "URL" to copy. Copy that and paste it into your post. So far that's pretty similar to just posting a link to youtube, so all you do next is highlight the youtube url and press quote (or anything really) on your bbcode toolbar. Replace the 'quote' part of the tag with 'youtube' and you are set.

This sounds a lot more complicated written out than it really is, so I made a quick video to show you. I have no microphone on this computer so it has no sound. But you should be able to follow along with the steps:

1) Copy url from youtube
2) Paste into a2k post window
3) Highlight the url
4) Quote it
5) Replace quote with youtube

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fopeiuOuWM

The video ended up being pretty small on the embedded size, and is faster than I did the steps so let me know if it's hard to follow.

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Quote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDx2oohQ-cc

OK (I think) I got as far as no 4 in Robert's instructions.

BUT what does "replace quote with youtube" mean?

How do I do that?

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@msolga,

[ youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5-f7GpYSU&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div [/youtube]

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Having another go:

Quote:

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

No, stuck again at the same point. Damn.

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@msolga,

You can click on quote and then replace the word "quote" with youtube and add the url in between as in:
[youtube]url[/youtube]

or what I do is just type this in:
[youtube]paste url[/youtube]

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