How to embed a video?

jaywbigred · Mar 19, 2008, 11:48 AM

How does a user embed a video that is uploaded and hosted on a separate website?

My best research of this site is that people post a link and write "can a mod please embed"...any other way?

roark · Mar 19, 2008, 12:16 PM

youtube: (remove the underscore)

[_youtube]videonum[/_youtube]

videonum is the seemingly random characters in the link after "v="

**bvibert** · Mar 19, 2008, 12:22 PM

AFAIK it can only be embedded if it's hosted on YouTube or Google Video.

Google example:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/misc.ph...code#googlevid

YouTube example:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#youtube

jaywbigred · Mar 19, 2008, 1:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bvibert

AFAIK it can only be embedded if it's hosted on YouTube or Google Video.

Google example:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/misc.ph...code#googlevid

YouTube example:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#youtube

That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Why does the host have anything to do with the ability of alpinezone.com to embed the video?

Photobucket gives HTML code for embedding that has worked for me elsewhere

Is there an HTML code I need to put before the photobucket-authored code? Is there a way to start a block of html code within a post?

**Greg** · Mar 19, 2008, 1:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaywbigred

That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Why does the host have anything to do with the ability of alpinezone.com to embed the video?

Because we don't allow the embedded of HTML in posts generally. That's a security risk. I've created custom BBCode for YouTube and Google Video. I wouldn't be opposed to doing the same for photobucket if you can provide an example of the code

jaywbigred · Mar 19, 2008, 2:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

Because we don't allow the embedded of HTML in posts generally. That's a security risk. I've created custom BBCode for YouTube and Google Video.

Ahh, then that makes sense now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

I wouldn't be opposed to doing the same for photobucket if you can provide an example of the code

That would be sweet!! An example of the code provided by Photobucket:

<embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i162.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid162.photobucket.com/albums/t258/jaywbigred/TYC%20-%20AAAJ%20-%20BRECK/MVI_0385.flv">

Thanks for your help guys/Greg!

Mar 19, 2008, 11:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
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Mar 19, 2008, 12:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
bvibert Middle Earth - 3/21/08 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Torrington, CT Posts: 9,612	AFAIK it can only be embedded if it's hosted on YouTube or Google Video. Google example: http://forums.alpinezone.com/misc.ph...code#googlevid YouTube example: http://forums.alpinezone.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#youtube __________________ Brian SAC Tracker

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roark Sugarloaf 2007-03-03 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: SW NH Posts: 1,178	youtube: (remove the underscore) [_youtube]videonum[/_youtube] videonum is the seemingly random characters in the link after "v="