Embedding Videos Again

One more time. I've noticed folks still having a hard time embedding videos.

It's pretty easy to embed youtube and other videos the old fashion way by using the share link.

Go to the video page that you want to embed (we'll use youtube as an example), Click the "Share" link below the video, then click the "Embed" link, then click the "copy" link (that will copy the embed code to your browser), then right click and "paste" the code into the essay or comment body and you're done.

If you want to center the code in the page, highlight all of the code you just embedded and then click the "C" button in the icons above the box (c99text editor) and that will center your video. The "C" button or icon is short for "center".

Almost all the different video sites will have a "Share" or "Embed" link somewhere, you may have to search a bit but it's there.

This FAQ in Method 3 explains it as well.

I had previously recommended using the "Video URL" box below the c99 text editor but I had forgotten that it only allows one video at a time to be posted, my bad.

Mastering the share links on the various video sites will allow you to embed almost all videos on the web. It's also how you embed twitter tweets as well.

I hope to eventually fix the video filter so as to get the video icon working again. There was a major conflict between the c99 software and the video filter code that was causing severe problems site-wide.

Sorry about the inconvenience and thanks for your patience.

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usefewersyllables's picture

for keeping this place going at all, let alone making for convenience! Much appreciated….

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

@usefewersyllables
sometimes updates introduce new code that doesn't play nice with the existing software. Finding the bug is step one, fixing it is step two. Both can be elusive and very unfun.

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helps me to descramble the next post, host.

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@QMS
the embed links on the video sites is how I do it and easy once you learn how to do it.

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mimi's picture

with you and read all that stuff you write. If I had a good video to share, I would accomplish it now in a minute.

What kind of weather do you have where you are?

I hope it doesn't rain or snwow too much. I am still thinking about your Rottweilers and as things go out of hand here in Germania I am dreaming to get a Rottweiler to protect me and my sister from those evildoers who steal stuff from old ladies and think they can get away with it. Problem is when the authorities steal. I have not found a good way to get after them, but I think a Rottweiler wouldn't be so bad in achieviong them to stay a bit away from me. Smile

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@mimi
in the 80s here the last week or so, that's too early even for Texas. We've had a lot of rain the last month or so, but I wish it would hold off and save some of it for summertime when we really need it.

Rottweilers are really a gentle breed if raised correctly. Just the sight of them can scare a lot of people though. When a potential bad guy hears the deep bark of a rottie on the other side of the door it will usually make them think twice. They can be a handful at times though.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

orlbucfan's picture

but I've got some questions. I can do computer basics, but I'm no nerd. When NCTim used to post his music diaries, I would do these steps to copy and paste tunes:
**Called up YouTube
**Found desired tune video
**Copied it
** Returned to my c99 comment space
**Pasted it (link) in.
To do it now, what steps am I missing? I will check back for your comments. Many thanks and Rec'd!! Smile

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

@orlbucfan
in this meta essay, or follow the steps in this meta essay although you'll only be able to post one tube at a time using this method.

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@JtC

copying the link with
[video: ladada] no longer works it seems.

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@QMS
at least until a solution can be found with the video filter that was the cause of major problems, you should know, it happened to you when you lost an essay a while back. That happened to a few other folks and then it happened to me. That was unacceptable and the video filter was the cause. After I was able to reproduce the problem I was able to track it down.

Hopefully a solution can be found, right now real life has pulled me away from just about everything.

Follow the directions in this essay, it really isn't that hard to do.

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@JtC

good luck with your chores.

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