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Venomous

Venomous

Whenever I try to directly link a video from YouTube into my posts or blog entries, the video just shows up as a link rather than the video itself. At first, I thought it may have just been the YouTube video itself. However, I realized that wasn't the case after I tried directly linking many other videos after that. This has been an issue for a little less than a month now and I still cannot directly link videos. I have been using the same process to link videos as I always have.


 


If anyone can help me out, I would really appreciate it!


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Lightwing

Lightwing

@Venomous, could you please give the link to the video you are trying to link on this topic? It normally should work properly, unless there is something wrong with the specific link you are trying to post.

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@Venomous, could you please give the link to the video you are trying to link on this topic? It normally should work properly, unless there is something wrong with the specific link you are trying to post.

This happens with every video I try to link; not just a single specific one.

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Jeric

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Ok, you may be using the link option. Do not do this. The editor will translate anything in the link dialog as a valid url instead of embedding the YouTube video. Copy and paste directly into the text editor and IPB should automatically embed. 

 

http://youtu.be/D-Sjpco4Z5A - Ok, you can normally only have two embedded videos ... but if you use the link icon ... or the url bbcode tag ... this happens. 

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Venomous

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Here's an example of how you get a YouTube video inserted into here.

 

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What exactly are you pasting in the "Media URL" box? Are you pasting the link of the YouTube video? If so, this method does not work for me.

Ok, you may be using the link option. Do not do this. The editor will translate anything in the link dialog as a valid url instead of embedding the YouTube video. Copy and paste directly into the text editor and IPB should automatically embed. 

 

http://youtu.be/D-Sjpco4Z5A - Ok, you can normally only have two embedded videos ... but if you use the link icon ... or the url bbcode tag ... this happens. 

Would you be able to give a bit of a directional rundown of how this is done? I'm a bit confused.

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Jeric

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I would like to mention that if you try pasting a url AFTER hitting the quote button it may paste the url as an active link instead of embedding.

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El Duderino

El Duderino

I had this problem before. This was my solution:

You can simply paste a link into the normal text section of a post, but you normally have to edit the link slightly. When you paste a youtube link, then it should show up as a video if you delete the "s" in the "https://..." at the beginning of the link. So the link should start "http://..."

I'm not sure this will work 100% of the time, but it has worked for me in the past.

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Fhaolan

Fhaolan

Interesting..

 

It seems to work when I use a different web browser.
. Out of curiousity, which browser is it *not* working for?
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Venomous

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Interesting..

 

. Out of curiousity, which browser is it *not* working for?

 

I would normally use my YouTube application for my tablet. The method I used to directly link videos from there always worked until now. Now, I have to use an actual internet browser. Puffin is my main browser.

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