Embedding Videos

[Darias]

I understand that we already have a feature which enables us to embed YouTube videos, however occasionally I come across alternative videos like Vimeo clips. I typically want to embed videos rather than link them because I don't want readers to have to leave the page anymore than they already do because of my somewhat excessive use of links.

I'm a member of another forum and I saw they have BB code which allows them to include a link for any video. You can choose the size of the video as well which makes it bigger than it might usually appear.

It looks like this:

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[media='640 x 360']url goes here[/media]

It's also useful because you can use the short version of YouTube urls (http://youtu.be/), which doesn't work with our current set up.

I think this would be really useful because there's this thing called TubeChop, which allows you to edit the relevant parts of a YouTube video, and I believe it's possible to embed that edited version.

[otseng]

It's also useful because you can use the short version of YouTube urls (http://youtu.be/), which doesn't work with our current set up.

OK, I've added this. There's three ways to use it:

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[yt]http://youtu.be/4sNKKlZpeGE[/yt]

[yt]youtu.be/YO7t85lSHNo[/yt]

[yt]AKz3lpyRNkQ[/yt]

See here for the videos:
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 746#610746

(Yes, this is the song I'm currently working on with my harmonica.)

I think this would be really useful because there's this thing called TubeChop, which allows you to edit the relevant parts of a YouTube video, and I believe it's possible to embed that edited version.

The [youtube] and [yt] tags won't work with TubeChop. I'll need to create another bbcode to support that.

[otseng]

I understand that we already have a feature which enables us to embed YouTube videos, however occasionally I come across alternative videos like Vimeo clips.

OK, added vimeo bbcode.

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[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/38512368[/vimeo]

http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 752#610752

[otseng]

I think this would be really useful because there's this thing called TubeChop, which allows you to edit the relevant parts of a YouTube video, and I believe it's possible to embed that edited version.

The [youtube] and [yt] tags won't work with TubeChop. I'll need to create another bbcode to support that.

Sorry, I won't be able to support TubeChop. The parameters for their embedded object takes multiple parameters instead of a single id.

[Darias]

Thanks for the updates!

A lot of news websites have their own embedded videos. Could either of the new codes work with other types of videos, or can they only embed YouTube and Vimeo videos?

[otseng]

Could either of the new codes work with other types of videos, or can they only embed YouTube and Vimeo videos?

They only work with YouTube and Vimeo.