Posting youtube videos

I've tried but I never get the picture with the big play button on it? I see that icon above on the far right? and when I click it and put my link it it? I get this.

[Robby, click the EDIT button for your post here (so you can see the codes) and look at these links:

Yours isWRONG:

Now, look at this correct youtube tag and see how I only included the part after the v=

This one is RIGHT:

kOTDn2A7hcY

[end_message_to_Robby ]

But anyone else who wants to see the links can just QUOTE this post (you don't have to actually go all the way and save/post it) and so should be able to see the bare code.

-- blue2blue

I put the link between the two comments? But no picture? Just a big blank white square? What am I doing wrong? (with youtube videos)

^^

There seems to be a glitch somewhere. I reposted a Youtube video that I posted before and it came up fine in preview. Then I tried posting a new one and made sure the code was the same or equivalent, and I couldn't see any difference in the code, but the video doesn't come up. It looked like we posted the same video! White on White! Or pale blue.

Blue?

When you paste the link, try deleting the equal sign and everything to the left of it.

From the handy SW Forum Rules & Resources:

Sometimes there's extra stuff after the video ID code, like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2qpCEeznr8&feature=related

You want the part after the ?v= and before any &blahblahblah

Robby, I added to your original post above (in bold). Click the edit button for it and you should be able to see the bare code for the YT tags in it, the incorrect one and the correct one with just the ID string.

Ok, so let me try this again;

{YOUTUBE]

I modified the first [ and the last ], but this is the format I used, I get a blank white block?

Here's what I used to get that video right (with the { modification like you did):

{YOUTUBE]kOTDn2A7hcY[/YOUTUBE}

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You finally got it figure out, yeah?

Like I said, all you should have to do is hit the quote button on one of the posts where I successfully embedded a vid -- or hit the edit button in your post where I edited it -- and just look at the YouTube code as I used it, which obviously works -- or like Jerry says, delete everything from the equal sign ( = ) and left and stick the remainder between YT tags.

So, instead of this:

{YOUTUBE]

You would delete the equal sign and every thing to the left of it and you would end up with this (which is the basic video ID):

{YOUTUBE]kOTDn2A7hcY[/YOUTUBE}

Don't worry. You're not the only one who has a mental block about this.