How To: Embed a YouTube video Cancel The title field is required!

1. Verheek John

   
   3/30/2011 4:03 PM

   To embed a YouTube video follow the instructions below.
   
   [list=1">
   [*">Locate a video you would like to add to your post on YouTube[/*:m">
   [*">Copy and paste the URL from the address bar into your post[/*:m">
   [*">Highlight the URL you've just pasted[/*:m">
   [*">Click the ‘youtube' bbcode button[/*:m">[/list:o">
   
   For example, the following:
   
   [code">[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXPbW7fYns[/youtube][/code">
   
   Would embed the video as such:
   
   [youtube">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXPbW7fYns[/youtube">

   
   
   
   
2. Wahlin Scott B

   
   6/7/2011 3:06 PM

   This did not work for me. I just got the url between two youtubes

   
   
   
   
3. Verheek John

   
   6/7/2011 5:06 PM

   wahlins said: This did not work for me. I just got the url between two youtubes

   
   Scott, this is to be expected. If you preview or submit your post, you will see the video display.

   
   
   
   
4. Wahlin Scott B

   
   7/28/2011 10:07 AM

   jverheek said:

   wahlins said: This did not work for me. I just got the url between two youtubes

   
   Scott, this is to be expected. If you preview or submit your post, you will see the video display.

   
   
   I do not understand this response. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Three minutes ago it did not work.

   
   
   
   
5. Christopher Chad D

   
   8/1/2011 11:08 AM

   Scott,
   
   There appears to be an issue with the youtube button. I am going to try to run thru this one without muddying the waters too much.
   
   YouTube is adding some extra information to some of their URLs. Currently, in order to use the youtube button you will need to copy the URL of the video, paste it into the forum post and then erase the '&' and everything after it.
   
   Here is an example of some YouTube URLs that you might want to embed inside of your post:
   [code">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZRGY6D3fDw
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZRGY6D3fDw&feature=relmfu
   http://youtu.be/iZRGY6D3fDw[/code">
   
   Notice that the second one has an '&' in it. After you paste it into your post, you need to remove the '&' and everything after it. This would result in:
   [code">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTLmUu8wxsY[/code">
   
   Also, notice the third URL does not follow the same structure as the other two. This URL is not supported.
   
   After cleaning up the URL, then you would follow the normal rules of highlighting the URL and clicking the youtube button.
   
   We will be researching a better solution but we definitely wanted to notify everyone of this situation.

   
   
   
   
6. Wahlin Scott B

   
   10/14/2011 1:10 PM

   It is not working again. My posts are coming up as hyperlinks.

   
   
   
   
7. Keith Lamb

   

   3 posts
   
   9/29/2014 2:09 PM

   Nothing works. Please look into this and tell us how to embed a video.
   
   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/pN40iwDDI5w[/youtube]

   
   
   
   
8. Verheek John

   
   10/2/2014 4:10 PM

   Keith,
   
   The URL you are attempting to post is not currently supported by our embed option. Here is an embed code you can use to post the video while I look into how we can better support youtube's various URL formats.
   
   [youtube">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN40iwDDI5w[/youtube">
   
   [code">[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN40iwDDI5w[/youtube][/code">
   
   Thank you,