viewing videos in posts

[jackhammer91406]

Perhaps this has been asked and answered before, and if so, my apologies for the redundancy. But I am curious how to put a video in a post and have a player show up and play without just having it show up as a hyper-link?

Is that doable here?

[+ Lucky]

At another web site I visit, one just inserts the link to the long form url and the video shows up.

That does not work here, so I join the question and wonder what does.

[+ deej]

Click the video button on the toolbar above the editing box for a new message (next to the formatting tools). Looks like this: http://www.companyofmen.org/images/editor/video.png

 

Paste the URL in the form that pops up. It doesn't work for ALL videos, all over the web, but it works for the most common. There's a list of supported videos in the dialog.

[jackhammer91406]

test

 

Click the video button on the toolbar above the editing box for a new message (next to the formatting tools). Looks like this: http://www.companyofmen.org/images/editor/video.png

 

Paste the URL in the form that pops up. It doesn't work for ALL videos, all over the web, but it works for the most common. There's a list of supported videos in the dialog.

ok,. thanks,. I am gonna try it.

 

[video=youtube;PKtfY0jQZ5U]

 

You are the man Deej,

 

It's another reason why I love this place.

Thanks again.

[+ deej]

Glad you got it working!

[leigh.bess.toad]

The other way, if you are more text oriented like I am, would be to paste the web address and add before the http: and afterwards. Either way, whatever works for you.

[gcursor]

What works for me (when I have the time) is I just past the link with the buttons available one after the other. The one that works is the one link I keep and the others I drop. If i'm doing a post in a rush then I don't always have this luxury.

[jackhammer91406]

Either way I am delighted to learn how to do this. Thanks to all for the advice

[MsGuy]

What works for me ... is I just past the link with the buttons available one after the other. The one that works is the one link I keep and the others I drop.

 

gcursor, you're a man after my own heart. That's almost exactly how I learned to post stuff. Just tried random shit and hoped something worked (lol, and hoped when something worked, I could remember what it was I did.)