Youtube vids aren't showing up

[Ricky B]

Everytime I try to post a youtube vid it aint showin up on my google chrome or firefox . . .


Example:

 

[Ricky B]

All I can see is a big blank spot

 

[burrellsjeep]

Everytime I try to post a youtube vid it aint showin up on my google chrome or firefox . . .
Example:

I have had the same issue

 

[burrellsjeep]

Trying a different Video

 

[shawn]

You all suck at teh internets.

The forum won't let you post raw html, and for good reason. If it did, you'd all get viruses and it would be my fault.

Edit your posts to see the proper way to embed a youtube link. The trick is to find the alphanumeric identifier that Youtube assigns to a video and put that between youtube brackets.

Like so:

[media=youtube]Su8P1aXb891[/media]

 

[burrellsjeep]

You all suck at teh internets.

The forum won't let you post raw html, and for good reason. If it did, you'd all get viruses and it would be my fault.

Edit your posts to see the proper way to embed a youtube link. The trick is to find the alphanumeric identifier that Youtube assigns to a video and put that between youtube brackets.

Like so:

[media=youtube]Su8P1aXb891[/media]

Was this a change made here or by Youtube, Because this is how I have always done it. But I know what to look for now.

 

[burrellsjeep]

Where did you locate that code?

Edit, I found it

 

[shawn]

I'm not sure what your question is... but you've always had to post them that way on the forum.

Youtube has three or four different ways it points to videos, depending on what you're doing.

 

[shawn]

Where did you locate the PHP code?

No PHP. I put the sample code in a PHP box so that it wouldn't parse the youtube link.

 

[burrellsjeep]

No I have always used the whole "embedded" code with the Youtube button and until here lately (not sure when it started) it would no longer work.

 

[burrellsjeep]

 

[burrellsjeep]

Ok i have it now

 

[burrellsjeep]

Here is one from an older post that still works

 

[shawn]

Huh.

I have no idea why that works. Basically, the youtube code is putting all the shockwave object commands around the little identifier code... so I'm guessing that youtube is (sometimes?) smart enough to know what to do even when some of the code is duplicated.

 

[burrellsjeep]

It worked for all videos until like a month ago, I thought it was just a fluke on one video I tryed to link, But when I saw Ricky's post, I tried a few random ones and there only working like you posted them. Which is weird because if the site (here) changed, then shouldn't the older videos stop working, or did You tube add something to there code that the site is blocking. If I remember correctly youtubes layout changed about the same time.

 

[shawn]

We haven't changed anything regarding how the video code is parsed... so it's probably on them.

 

[burrellsjeep]

Thats what I thought,

On another forum if you link a Youtube video with the URL button it will embed it in the post, is that possible here?

 

[Ricky B]

Thanks, yea teh intrenets kan git konfussin

 

[bowtieman55]

I'm still lost.
***GOT IT! Thanks foreman1063.

Just paste the last part of the youtube address(every thing behind the = sign) between the youtube tags.