How do you enclose youtube videos URLs to make them ready to play in a post?
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i assume you mean posts on this forum.
you can't even post normal images on this subforum, let alone videos.
if it was allowed, i would do the following:
[url="YOUTUBE URL"][img]http://site.com/imagefile.ext[/img][/url]
some forum softwares allow video embedding, iirc on one of them the tag was
[embed]YOUTUBE URL[/embed]
The must be something wrong. I am watching the youtube video, I press ^L copy and paste the URL in the URL bar. And this is the only URL that matters. But according to your syntax there are two URLs!
if you have a video you want me to see, I want to see its URL, so that I can choose whether to watch it.
agreed.
what i posted previously is a visually more appealing option that does not embed anything and should work on most forums that support images.
nota bene, not all of LQ's subforums support images.
Let's put a concrete case. This is the URL I got by copying the URL box contents (screen upper side) while watching the video. I know youtube can give you the video URL after you performing I dono what action but lets forget about that:
In the particular forum I want to post, ]URL[]IMG[https://www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=8_7xer_O1rA]IMG[]URL[ (square brackets the other way round intentionally) is what I put. But without a result. The problem is different forums have different formats, I think. For instance in the beethoven reference site, which is where I did the test, only a part of the string is enough. So?
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