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Can't post Youtube Vids Anymore

• daveparr 1,175 Posts

  Mon, May 18 2015 12:47 PM

  Hi Scott yes both the URLs are the Same the one l copied from youtube when pasted is just printed in Black and you cannot click onto it to get the connection,the same URL wgt sends to my Email once l copy and post that one in the music thread is a purple printed one and goes green once posted this one always connects to youtube.  

  Very Strange both the same URLS but different coloured print when pasted

                                            Regards

                                                   Dave

• ScottHope 10,461 Posts

  Mon, May 18 2015 1:04 PM

  Hi Dave, computer related stuff can be very annoying sometimes because you only have to make the slightest mistake with regards how things are entered that it's easy for processes to go down the plug hole.

  But anyway, here's a video I made for someone else a while ago when they were having problems posting a video, so hopefully it might be helpful to you also.

  ...and don't forget that if the URL begins 'https' to remove the 's'.

  Good luck.  : )

• daveparr 1,175 Posts

  Mon, May 18 2015 2:15 PM

  Thanks Scott your instruction video works a treat even a computer illiterate like me got it working after watching it

                                                         Cheers

                                                              Dave

• ScottHope 10,461 Posts

  Mon, May 18 2015 2:30 PM

  Nice one Dave, thank you. An achievement is an achievement no matter what level you're on.   : )

• ScottHope 10,461 Posts

  Tue, May 26 2015 8:08 AM

  I have some more video posting tips if you're interested, stop yawning at the back, lol!
  
  If you want to post a music video or other audio that has uninteresting visuals or perhaps a still picture that doesn't add anything to the auditory experience, then you can reduce the video window to show just the progress bar & controls. Set the dimensions to between 100 ─ 450 for the width and 24 for the height, and add  ?autohide=0  to the end of the video URL, to force the controls to display.
  
  

  
  It's also possible to specify a start and end time if you don't want the entire video to play. The time values should be added as seconds, as shown in the example below which has a start time set at 3 minutes (180 seconds) and end time set at 5 minutes (300 seconds).
  
  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tPnX7OPo0Q?start=180;end=300

  
  When posted to the forum the progress bar will display something like this...
  
  

  
  If the YouTube logo on the controls bar is clicked to watch the video on the host site, the end time will not function, but the start time should.
  
  To make both the start and end times work with a fullscreen video, then a link, with a small modification to the video URL, is only way I could get this to work. Add your start and end times to the URL as before, and in addition, replace the watch?v=  part of the URL with v/ to change it from...
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tPnX7OPo0Q?start=180;end=300
  
  to...
  
  http://www.youtube.com/v/8tPnX7OPo0Q?start=180;end=300
  
  Then use that to create your link.
  
  ...okay at the back, you can wake up now. : )
  
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• janhv 837 Posts

  Thu, May 28 2015 1:00 AM

  Thanks for sort this out . That httpS thing got me . :)

  ScottHope:

  and don't forget that if the URL begins 'https' to remove the 's'.

  Good luck.  : )

   

• ScottHope 10,461 Posts

  Thu, May 28 2015 1:23 AM

  Thank you janhv, I still get caught by it. It doesn't matter if it's in a link, but it does matter if you want to post a video here.  : )