YouTube Video - Add to Seven Forums Post

You've all seen something like this on SevenForums, a YouTube video inside somebody's post:



...and some of you are wondering how to do it yourself.

It's simple, just read along...
1 - First of all, go to YouTube and find your video.

2 - Now look at the URL - the actual web address of the YouTube clip:

3 - The important bit is the code after http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= - in this case, it's Bvu1DU_RZ9w.

Select just the Bvu1DU_RZ9w part with your mouse, right-click and copy it.

   Tip

Sometimes, depending on the particular YouTube video, you may see something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvu1DU_RZ9w&feature=related, if so, ignore the &feature=related bit of the URL, and just copy the Bvu1DU_RZ9w.

4 - Now, if you want to have the video inside one of your posts, click on the YouTube button in the post editor.

5 - The forum software will automagically insert an opening [YOUTUBE] and a closing [/YOUTUBE] 'tag'.

6 - Next, simply paste the Bvu1DU_RZ9w code that we copied earlier in between the two tags, like so:

[YOUTUBE]Bvu1DU_RZ9w[/YOUTUBE]


7 - Finish writing the rest of your post, and the result will be:

That's it!

Happy posting!

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[Bare Foot Kid]

Well done!

 

[sygnus21]

Thanks mickey. I was one who asked about uploading youtube clips so this comes in handy.

Thanks

 

[StalkeR]

Well done! This will help a lot of users (especially they newly registered)

 

[Bongo]

Great tutorial Mickey
That video was great to I think I will check out that website
Jerry

 

[Joan Archer]

Good one mickey, a very helpful tutorial well done.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Thanks mickey, this will even help older members too as I have yet to post a You Tube video.

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Excellent always wondered how this was done

Danny

 

[marsmimar]

A big from me too, mickey! Great job.

 

[Dave76]

Great job MM, thanks.

 

[mickey megabyte]

thanks for the comments guys and gals.

good to know my time wasn't wasted

 

[Thorsen]

Just saw this and am glad you made a Tut for it. This will be very helpful to a lot of new and current users

 

[mickey megabyte]

yeah, that was the idea - in the future if anybody asks, a quick search for youtube in the tutorial section should yield a link to this page, rather than having to try to explain it all by using [noparse] tags etc...

 

[boohbah]

well done mickey ,this process is also the same for adding a Vimeo clip in this case click the you tube icon in the message editor and change youtube to vimeo thus
?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

 

[mickey megabyte]

thanks booh...and for the completionists, here's a list of all the bb code tags used on this site.

 

[boohbah]

Thats a handy list mickey,i often wondered how some of the tips dl buttons etc were done

 

[wilywombat]

Thanks for the info..very helpful!!

 

[Britton30]

Great job Mickey! Whozat in the video?

 

[derekimo]

Great job Mickey! Whozat in the video?

This guy right here,

Windows 7 Forums - View Profile: nate42nd

 

[Layback Bear]

Thank you Micky. I go to You Tube seldom but when I do this Tutorial will be great.