Embedded YouTube videos

**Salty25** · 30-10-2006

Are there any plans to bring this on to the site? It only just occured to me cos I wanted to post a video that was on YouTube, and embedding looks very nice. Hope I not making a fuss

**rolfw** · 30-10-2006

Not sure whether vBulletin software caters for that, but even if it does, it probably also has embedded advertising.

**Salty25** · 30-10-2006

I swear I've seen it on other vB boards before. When I get a little time I'll go searching for examples and reports back.

**rolfw** · 30-10-2006

OK, found it on vbulletin.org, will ask Chris and see what he says.

**Salty25** · 30-10-2006

Oh, thats great. I think it would be a brilliant addition to the site. Fingers crossed!

***Marts*** · 30-10-2006

Provided there's no dancing the funky chicken

**Salty25** · 30-10-2006

Originally Posted by Marts

Provided there's no dancing the funky chicken

He behaves himself and he never gives up the boogie!

**rolfw** · 30-10-2006

Chris has done it.

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellit...lebration.html

Looks good, thanks Chris and thanks Salty for the suggestion.

**Salty25** · 30-10-2006

That's a right touch!

Another success brought to you by the lads at Satellites.co.uk!

EDIT - I'm a retard... how do you get it to work, tried to use a vid on the F1 thread and no luck using the the code Youtube give ya?

**rolfw** · 30-10-2006

Didn't say I'd tell you how to use it.

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[ tube ]number[ /tube ]

Without the spaces.

**chris** · 30-10-2006

you only need part of the embed code, just take the code in red from the embed code youtube give you-

Code:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e7ilbC4kJhY"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e7ilbC4kJhY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

and insert the following BB code when you post your message-

Code:

[tube*]e7ilbC4kJhY[/tube]

dont include * !!!
and it should work

**Salty25** · 30-10-2006

I knew it would be something like that. Cheers again

***BarMoo*** · 01-11-2006

Keep in mind that a blogger recently had a 'Cease and Desist' notice handed to him for link-throughs to youtube footy clips. [read: kettle of worms].

Saying that, I don't give a hoot. This is great for the Jokes section.

Thanks Chris

, rolf (for asking)

and to Salty (for posing) - sorry (posing the Q)

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**stuzeeuk** · 02-11-2006

chaps beware what you link, now that google have bought the site I think it wont be long before they try to sue the ass of it !

**rolfw** · 02-11-2006

The worst they can do is to ask us to remove any specific content and if they do, we disable the hack, effectively removing it. Easy as that.

***BarMoo*** · 02-11-2006

Originally Posted by stuzeeuk

chaps beware what you link, now that google have bought the site I think it wont be long before they try to sue the ass of it !

Not being horrid to you - BUT, do you read other posts or just type your own after reading the title? What did I say an hour before you? Is there DSL lag in your area?

Rolf: still a can 'o worms, ;-))

**Salty25** · 02-11-2006

On the rights issue, I don't really see that being a major problem. Much apart from the fact that the videos in question would be held on YouTube, and all that we would be posting is a link, I can't really see anyone causing that much of a fuss - including sports highlights, which seem prevalent throughout YouTube.

**rolfw** · 02-11-2006

Well as I said earlier, if we are requested to remove live links or embedded video because of copyright, we will. The whole facility or parts of it can be easily and almost instantaneously removed.

**gameboy** · 02-11-2006

I would think it would work like this...

The copyright hold complains to YouTube - they remove the video

The link doesn't work any more.

No problem?

I see that Utube the steel company are to sue YouTube after their site has repeatedly been off line due the hits from user typing the wrong address.
They have turned down 1 million dollars for the domain.

**rolfw** · 02-11-2006

LOL, yes they want a huge amount of money to set up a new website, not out for a quick buck at all.

***BarMoo*** · 02-11-2006

UTube.com was registered in 1996 and UniversalTube.com in 1999 [funny that]

Cheeky Universal Secondhand Tubey Whatits. Surely the judge will laugh this out of court. They made alternative arrangements seven years ago - the universaltube.com address is very much active to this day.

Lost business my ass. I wouldn't be suprised me if the server crashes on universaltube.com since it is now all over the news.

OT: but I am looking forward to Apples iTV next year and what shenanigans will happen with ITV, et al.

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***BarMoo*** · 02-11-2006

Originally Posted by gameboy

I would *like to* think it would work like this...

Fact is the bloke and his blog were doing service to footy fans all over the globe. He only published links to content on YouTube (which I *guess* would show up like the code used here; i.e. first frame of clip??).

He even published all the 'Cease & Disist' emails from the media rights people.

I am sure rolf is right, in that, If sats.uk was asked to cease [?] - rolf would be on the case before they had even sent their first email, lol.

I believe this chap was a little more stubborn - claiming that he was not hosting the content, but only providing links, tralala. When I looked on his site (the day of the news story) - there were no links.

Frightening those lawyer types aren't they, hehe.

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sweetlou · 21-11-2007

Originally Posted by rolfw

Not sure whether vBulletin software caters for that, but even if it does, it probably also has embedded advertising.

it has nothing to do with what bb system you are using, admin just need to enable html for a certain forum, or there is a plugin that put a box in this reply section so a user can post the url and the plugin will auto embed

**Analoguesat** · 21-11-2007

This thread is over a year old

The youtube tags have been working nicely since they were introduced