What's up with posting Youtube videos on these forums?

[JSD]

I no longer seem to know how to. I used to just post the URL, that doesn't seem to work anymore.

[Kiorrik]

Alright. Seems like there's two things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dn9Z2PaTow&ref=5892049v328cD

Doesn't work because of the S behind the first "http".

Secondly, make sure that behind the word "watch", there's only a questionmark followed by "v=" and then a string of characters.

If there's a "&" in there, followed by another "something=something" then you'll have to delete that.

So in the url above you wanna remove "&ref=5892049v328cD"

Et voila:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dn9Z2PaTow

[Kiorrik]

And yes, it gets a bit tricky, which is unfortunate.

[BASS_THUMPER]

sum werk sum dont

[JSD]

Alright. Seems like there's two things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dn9Z2PaTow&ref=5892049v328cD

Doesn't work because of the S behind the first "http".

Secondly, make sure that behind the word "watch", there's only a questionmark followed by "v=" and then a string of characters.

If there's a "&" in there, followed by another "something=something" then you'll have to delete that.

So in the url above you wanna remove "&ref=5892049v328cD"

Et voila:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dn9Z2PaTow

Thanks for your help

[JSD]

While I have your attention, how do I turn a word into a link. Like, "7,000 murders take place in the United States last year" making that green and linked to the source?

[Bahku]

While I have your attention, how do I turn a word into a link. Like, "7,000 murders take place in the United States last year" making that green and linked to the source?

Click on the globe and you will get two "url"'s in brackets, insert your link where you normally would (between the url's in brackets), and place an equals sign ( "=" ) in before it, (after the first "url").

Now put whatever you want between the second bracket, (which is now after the link), and the second "url" in it's brackets.

Wish I could show it exactly, but it's not possible, unfortunately.

Hope it works for you!

(You can add html to what you're inserting, too, like bold, italics, etc.).

[Kiorrik]

While I have your attention, how do I turn a word into a link. Like, "7,000 murders take place in the United States last year" making that green and linked to the source?

Like this:
[url="http://www.google.com"]This is a link to Google[/url]

Which turns into:
This is a link to Google

[Bahku]

Guess I wasn't clear enough, huh? lol 

Oh, well ...

[Kiorrik]

Just adding.

[Bahku]

Just adding.

Jk, M8 ... yours was much clearer, I'm always wasting keystrokes.

[JSD]

Thanks guys