How to embed videos into posts.

[Lester]

Down and dirty...

Most sites that do Shockwave/Flash videos give you a method for embedding their videos onto your own websites. However, the method that PHPBB2 uses requires a little bit of investigation. It should also be noted that some sites won't work at all.

First, click the EMBED portion of the site you're gleaning the video from. Example 1 will be YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA

On the right hand side of the page, you'll see a box that says EMBED. Click in the box, it will automatically highlight the text. Right click and COPY.

In NOTEPAD, or some other text editor, Right click and select PASTE.

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<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uwIGZLjugKA&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uwIGZLjugKA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

What you need from this is the width/height of the movie and its URL (PARAM NAME ="movie"... grab everything between the quotes for VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/uwIGZLjugKA&hl=en")

425,355 http://www.youtube.com/v/uwIGZLjugKA&hl=en

Across the top of the NEW TOPIC window is a box that says "FLASH". Clicking it will place:

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[flash=][/flash]

into the text editor.

After the = sign and inside the bracket, you need to place the width and height of the movie, separated by a comma, and no spaces.

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[flash=425,355]

BETWEEN THE FLASH CODES you will place the URL of the movie.

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[flash=425,355]http://www.youtube.com/v/uwIGZLjugKA&hl=en[/flash]

All that gets you this:



Example 2 comes from the site break.com (and appears in K-rocks earlier post).

Break uses flash to actually copy the embed code into your clipboard. Click EMBED, then click the link for EMBED code.

In NOTEPAD, or some other text editor, Right click and select PASTE.

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<object width="464" height="392"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NTA2MTky"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://embed.break.com/NTA2MTky" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess=always width="464" height="392"></embed></object><br><font size=1><a href="http://www.break.com/index/bestbuy-dance-off.html">Best Buy Dance Off</a> - Watch more <a href="http://www.break.com/">free videos</a></font>

What you need from this is the width/height of the movie and its URL (PARAM NAME ="movie"... grab everything between the quotes for VALUE="http://embed.break.com/NTA2MTky")

464,392 http://embed.break.com/NTA2MTky

Across the top of the NEW TOPIC window is a box that says "FLASH". Clicking it will place:

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[flash=][/flash]

into the text editor.

After the = sign and inside the bracket, you need to place the width and height of the movie, separated by a comma, and no spaces.

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[flash=464,392]

BETWEEN THE FLASH CODES you will place the URL of the movie.

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[flash=425,355]http://embed.break.com/NTA2MTky[/flash]

Resulting in this:



If you can't easily track down 'param name="movie" value=', then odds are you can't embed the video here. If anyone knows the magic steps to make it work, feel free to post it here.

HOMEWORK: Find a video... embed it as a reply. No porn, please.

Mr. Lester

[AmpedNow]

You cannot use certain BBCodes: [flash].

{flash=425,355]http://www.youtube.com/v/NeG2aSGDhao&hl=en[/flash]

What am I missing?

I purposely changed the first bracket so it would post.

[Lester]

Try editing it back. I think it's good now.

[AmpedNow]

Oh yeah.

[Scott Reppert]

Okay, here we go. I'm giving it a shot.

Keep in mind, there's plenty of shots of "Edna The Avatar Girl" in this here video, for those of you that just absolutely groove on her...

[Big Media]

For my home work assignment, I present this:




I would have kicked that damn dog so hard he would have needed a lady friend with a spatula to retrieve his nads.

[Oldiesdude]

I did it. I want a green dog sticker!

Thanks Teacher! Computers are so easy to use, when you have someone who knows how to teach.

[The People's DJ]

NSFW but funny. I remember playing this game. And yes...I hated..HATED...HATED landing the plane.

[Lee]

Fixed!

[Dave Loudin]

Bastard!