New & Easy Video Embedding

[quasar]

Hey guys (and girls),
a few days ago we upgraded the forum software to make embedding of flash videos from other sites easier. Many of us have encountered the problems with the dreaded youtube videos where you needed to only copy a part of the url, and place it in tags and the likes. Many newbies had problems with it, and even some veterans have.
Now all that you need to do is paste the youtube link here, and it will automagically become an embedded video.
If you do NOT want that to happen, you need to uncheck the "Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on)." or "Automatically parse links in text" tickbox.
Besides youtube we can now enable the posting of videos from almost any flashbased videosite that allows embedding here. A few of them are already implemented:
Youtube
MySpace Video
Snotr.com
Google Video
Meta Cafe
Yahoo
Daily Motion
Veoh Videos
CollegeHumor
PornHub
RedTube
RocketTube
xTube (experimental)
(list to be updated)

If you know of any others, or have any issues, tell me about it here and I will look into it.

 

[quasar]

There seems to be some confusion amongst some of the new members about how to post YouTube videos.

The first way is the easiest. You simply paste the whole link into your post. ie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqyl6SbZywg

If you do this, there is no need to use the YouTube tags as our software embeds the video automatically.

The second way is to use the YouTube tags, BUT the only information that needs to go inbetween the tags is the video ID - which is the combination of letters and numbers (I've highlighted them in red)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqyl6SbZywg

[YOUTUBE]bqyl6SbZywg[YOUTUBE]

I hope that explains it okay.

 

[quasar]

Updated 15-Apr-2012 for new version options.

Joe Jonas Asked If He's Gay, Has Beard Relationship - YouTube

If you do this, there is no need to use the YouTube tags as our software embeds the video automatically.

The other command options are:
[MEDIA=youtube]GHcUkc4tshA[/MEDIA] displays as:

[YOUTUBE]GHcUkc4tshA[/YOUTUBE] displays as: