YouTube bbcode added - how to embed YouTube videos in your posts

We just added this neat little feature to the forums.
This feature allows you to do this:



(This is one of my favourite videos of all times )

This will let you post your videos directly into your posts rather than linking to them on YouTube!

To do this, you will need to get the ID of the YouTube video. It's very simple, for example, if you look at the URL for the video above on YouTube, it looks something like this:

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

All YouTube videos are similar, if you browse YouTube, you will see that the page URLs for videos are all like this.

Now, whatever comes after v= is the ID, here Hd_ptbiPoXM is the ID of this video.

Sometimes the URL is longer and has more components in it and looks something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM&feature=PlayList&p=0F5B03A822D269C0&index=5

Again, the ID is whatever comes after v= up until the & so it's Hd_ptbiPoXM

After you get the ID, you can add the video to your posts or threads like this:

[youtube]THE ID OF THE VIDEO[/youtube]

So for my example I did:

[youtube]Hd_ptbiPoXM[/youtube]

You can add videos like this when you make a new thread, when you make a reply or even when you make a quick reply!

If any of this is confusing and you feel like I lost you in the middle of explaining all this, please feel free to reply to this thread and ask questions.

Enjoy

This is awesome. What a great addition to the forums. The how to explanation was clear enough to me. Now I'll just have to find something to try it out with!!

Very cool.

You rawk Hamid! Thank you (and Tess) for all of the great new features you've added lately!

okay that's easy enough. Thanks guys!

Love this new addition! Thanks Hamid!

Thank you Hamid! This is so handy and I was finally able to use the feature. You and Tess rock!

Bumping this up to ensure new members are aware of this feature as well...