David Todd Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Over the last 2 day's,I have trouble posting u-tube video's in my thread. I can only post a link,to u- tube and not the "normal display" screen, from u-tube, through Media function,on icons. I have tried other way's of loading, the screen,but to no avail. Thank's inan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 I copied and pasted the URL (link) from YouTube directly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 I've had the same issue. Direct copy paste and wrapping in media tags. Both come out with just the url. One I did last week displayed the Youtube control. Inconsistent behaviour for sure. Plain paste of url copied from browser address bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opny2g4pVjE wrapped in BB code "media" tags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opny2g4pVjE url copied from the get video url on the video player https://youtu.be/Opny2g4pVjE Strange indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Just use the url from the address bar rather than the share link Youtube provides. Should work OK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Just use the url from the address bar rather than the share link Youtube provides. Should work OK. Now you've started something Andy, does that mean there'll be another section on the main menu for "over 18's only" ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 YouTube have now deprecated the old <object> API embedding in favour of their HTML5 <iframe> API, see: http://youtube-eng.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html The latest IPB code has now broken that (do they ever test anything?) by not parsing the secure https: instead of http: protocol string. 1. To insert a video on RMweb, copy and paste the link provided on the YouTube page when you click "Share" below the video. 2. When you paste that link, it looks like this, and won't work here as it stands: https://youtu.be/afvGStYT9xI 3. But if you then delete the first letter s from it, so that it reads http: instead of https:, like this: http://youtu.be/afvGStYT9xI 4. It then works fine: edit: you must edit the link while it is still showing as plain black text, and not after it has become a coloured link. See my post below for instructions. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliebanger Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Martin, I've been having this problem too. I tried your fix on one of my recent posts, but it has not made any difference, only the url is displayed. See http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/97647-Bachmann-class-08-with-sound-and-brakes/&do=findComment&comment=1834253 Can you shed any more light, please? Kind regards, Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 Martin, I've been having this problem too. I tried your fix on one of my recent posts, but it has not made any difference, only the url is displayed. See http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/97647-Bachmann-class-08-with-sound-and-brakes/&do=findComment&comment=1834253 Can you shed any more light, please? Hi Paul, You edited the visible coloured text, but not the underlying link. If you hover the mouse over the link you will see in the bottom corner of the screen: https://youtu.be/jxPIFHyb5hQ To edit an incorrect link on RMweb you must do this: 1. right-button click on the link. 2. click Copy Link Location or Copy Shortcut on the menu which appears. 3. paste it into the post, below the original link. 4. make any changes needed to it. 5. delete the original link. I made a test post into that topic to confirm it is working. regards, Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 This is in way of an experiment as I'm not sure of what is being seen as a problem. This link should lead to a You Tube video, I think (or am I wrong?) - So having done it and finding that it works all I did (and all I ever do) is simply copy the URL and paste it in - exactly as Andy has said and as Beast has also done. I have never noticed that this simple way of linking has failed to work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliebanger Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Method 1 Copy and paste link provided by 'share', then the 's' removed from https http://youtu.be/jxPIFHyb5hQ Method 2 Copy and paste from the url in the address bar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxPIFHyb5hQ&feature=youtu.be Method 3 As above but 's' removed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxPIFHyb5hQ&feature=youtu.be In each case, the copied text immediately changed colour, there was no black text to edit, so I have not actually removed the 's'. Method 4 Copy to Word, remove 's' in the black, recopy the edited black text and paste here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxPIFHyb5hQ&feature=youtu.be No, that does not work either. I seem to remember when I started posting videos here I had the same problem. I asked then and some kind soul made some 'backroom changes' (I've no idea what) and then simple copy and paste worked fine until a few months ago. Kind regards, Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hi Mike, Yes, that method works on RMweb, but may not work on other forums. Paul was asking why his method doesn't work -- which is the proper method provided for the purpose on the YouTube web site. Click the "Share" icon on there to see it. When you post a link on RMweb the software (in this case the free CK Editor, see: http://ckeditor.com ) has to do two things: 1. identify that you have posted a link, and not just ordinary text (it does that by looking for "http" or "www" or some other things in your text, an inspired guess really), and 2. convert it into HTML code to work as a link in your browser. In most cases that simply means the usual "href=" code to make a clickable link. But in special cases, such as a youtube link, it can convert it to some other HTML code to make something else happen. For example for youtube it can cause the video to be directly embedded in the post. In your case that means converting what you posted to something like this: <iframe src="https://youtube.com/embed/A0PT_eZUZv4" height="360" width="640"></iframe> What happens then is that your browser creates a separate mini web page inside your post and loads the YouTube web site into it, displaying the video. You can try visiting that mini web site directly if you prefer, here's the link: https://youtube.com/embed/A0PT_eZUZv4 But all that depends on the CK Editor doing 1. above correctly. In the case of the official YouTube sharing links, it doesn't. Using the YouTube page address from the browser address bar, it does. Unfortunately that is not what YouTube tells its visitors to do. regards, Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 In each case, the copied text immediately changed colour, there was no black text to edit, so I have not actually removed the 's'. Hi Paul, Which browser are you using which does that? Try clicking the top left button on the editor (above the B for bold), paste* your link, remove the s, then click that button again to return to normal posting. *right-click menu, or press Ctrl+V, for pasting in that mode. regards, Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Sidelines Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I think I must be in the slow readers group as I have only just come across this problem now 04 May. Thanks Martin - removing the 's' works fine (Firefox). Regards Ray Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2015 I have found that most "embedded" YouTube videos posted tends freeze my work PC's IE8 browser so that any lunch break browsing gets slow. Hence I prefer not to "embed" the YouTube videos in my posts, only provide a link and a brief description. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 A very belated Thanks for your posts', Removing the "s" from the You Tube link line, works for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 22, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi. Unfortunately, all of these suggestions are not working. I do not know what to do. I have tried the BB Code Mode, but even that has stopped working. Any ideas please? With regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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