Embed youtube videos

[yerkyerk]

I figured this change was big enough to merit its own thread.

I've inserted a BB code to embed youtube videos (also added an icon for youtube).
You can add youtube videos by inserting the final part of the url (the strange code) between [ youtube] [ /youtube] (no spaces).

So:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf9CC7NXeZQ
would become

[YOUTUBE]Qf9CC7NXeZQ[/YOUTUBE]

A hopefully redundant note; I expect everyone to abide by the rules and use this feature responsibly.

[Nuwine]

Wow, that is a great video.

Edit: Lol was watching the video and forgot to comment on the actual thread. This is great I may need to start recording more of my uber challenge.

[Munderbunny]

Hey, very cool!

[Haktar]

Great video and great feature. Good job!

Thx a lot!

[ASYLUM101]

It works! yay how cool.

[jiaco]

Much improved. Thank you for letting youtube in the forum like this. Works great!

[yerkyerk]

It indeed works Unfortunately it wasn't used too much. So I removed the legal jargon and put the videos directly in there.

Only problem still is now (as it was previously), that the size is distorted.

The current code is set to give a fixed size for youtube videos, but if I remove width and height the video gets really small (thumbnail size). I'd prefer to let it automatically pick the right size.
The first part, btw (<param ...></param> seems rather redundant)

<param name="movie" value="<A href="http://www.youtube.com/v/{param}">
</param>

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{param}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
 width="425" height="350">
</embed>

Note: [_code][_/code] allows you to put things into code without BBcode messing it up (remove underscores)

[jiaco]

I really dont see any distortion but

Google pulled this out:

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

When I right click the youtube video above and copy embed html (in firefox) I get:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qf9CC7NXeZQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qf9CC7NXeZQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Could the height 350 versus 344 be the cause of this distortion?

[yerkyerk]

Well, the distortion is hardly noticable, but, the video is a lot smaller (and more square/less widescreen).

344 might be a better value Heh, I never bothered to look up the youtube site...

[Tashes]

Thankyou, finally, for fixing this! It was only one of the first posts I made... :tease: