How to embed a YouTube video:
This is taken from a forum I run - forum.ccc.za.org
1 - View the YouTube video clip you want to use (it must be YouTube, Adobe flash clips do not work)
2 - While it is playing, right-click on the picture, select "copy embed video' and left click this
(this will copy the URL of the video to your clipboard, its quite long and will look like this
<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>[/color]
3 - Back to the forum, go to the category you want. Click on NEW TOPIC
4 - Now, click on the round
RED symbol on the menu bar just above this message, on the left. This is the flash command
You will need to do a bit of editing
5 - The flash command inserts the code: flash=200,200 into your message. 200 x 200 is too small, this is the size of the video clip. If you look at the YouTube URL above, you will see it says "height: 390px and width: 640px.
6 - Go to the flash command you have just inserted when you clicked on the flash symbol and edit the 200,200 to read 640,360 (get the order right)
7 - Now, the tricky bit. You have the URL of the video clip in your clipboard. Position your mouse
between the two sets of square brackets ] & [ and then press Ctrl+V. This will insert the whole YouTube URL into this space.
You haven't finished yet.
8 - Very carefully insert your mouse on the right-hand side of the last ] in the flash command, and
delete some of the URL until you get to the words" value="http and delete them so the very first word right against the last ] is http (no space between ] and http)
Ok so far.
9 - Now, click on
Preview below and you should see the video clip appear in your message
10 - Now
Post it.
