[Easy Guide] Youtube embedding on Neowin!

[ATGC]

I still see some people doing the old method of embedding Youtube videos on Neowin. e.g.

[flash=425,355]http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_NAME.swf[/flash]

There is a much easier way of doing this, and the following guide shows you how.

Just highlight everything after the equal sign (=) on the URL and copy it. (See Figure 1) Then when posting, simply paste it in the following code.

[Youtube][/Youtube]

Figure 1

If an ampersand (&) is present in the URL after the equal sign (=), then copy everything after the equal sign and before the ampersand (&). (See Figure 2) Then when posting, simply paste it on the code shown above.

Figure 2

Alright, so far so good. Now, say you want to deep link a Youtube video to start at a specific point, for example if your video is too long (Figure 3) and you want someone to skip to a specific scene.

Figure 3

So, all you have to do is add the following tag to everything after the equal sign (=) and before the ampersand (&). (See Figure 4)

#t=1m45s

Figure 4

Now, let’s see an example of this.

Note: This doesn't work for embedded videos, YET.

[+shift. MVC]

Nice guide!

[Jase]

Thank you!

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Thanks , It works. (Y)

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I never knew about the time start part... that could be useful :)

[Zoom7000]

Nice one. Unfortunately it seems the forum code doesn't support the new 16:9 Youtube Videos and instead scales them to 4:3.

[Brad.]

Nice one dude (Y)

[Green_Eye]

Well presented, and thank you (Y)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Gentlemen.

[youtube]1EutKrKTfLk&ap=%2526fmt%3D22&start=15[/youtube]

&ap=%2526fmt%3D22 = Loads fmt=22 version of video, 22 = 720p

&start=15 = Sets the starting offset in seconds

You can also change the player colour by adding something like "&color1=0xff00ff&color2=0x00ff00" to the string, but chose nicer colours :p

Edit: %3D gets converted to =, %25 gets converted to % and %26 gets converted to &, so the string "%2526fmt%3D22" gets converted into "%26fmt=22" then into "&fmt=22"

Edit 2: [ wyoutube] = widescreen, [ youtube] = normal

Edited December 31, 2008 by The_Decryptor

[mail]

Yep nice!

Edited December 31, 2008 by mail