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can you embed youtube/BBC videos on this site?

Pretani
Pretani Posts: 2,279 Forumite
There doesn't seem to be any button for embedding, but is there a code we can use?
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  • Bowling_4_Gold
    Bowling_4_Gold Posts: 1,771 Forumite
    no, don't think so, but I havn't really tried. You could try copying the embedd code from the Youtube vid into a thread if you wanted to see if it works...
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  • bingo_bango
    bingo_bango Posts: 2,594 Forumite
    I suspect not.

    There would be all sorts of copyright issues, so it looks as if it has been disabled.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    I don't think there would be any copyright issues are the files wouldn't be hosted here.

    It wouldn't be any different to posting a link to YouTube, only you won't need to visit YouTube.com in another tab/window to play the video.
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    edited 9 May 2009 at 3:27PM
    ok, i want to describe how you may be able to do it hear without embedding a youtube vid myself. so here we go.
    in a post put
    . make sure there are no spaces.
  • john_s_2
    john_s_2 Posts: 698 Forumite
    Take a look down the bottom left of this page. It says that HTML is off. This would need to be enabled by the board admin for embedded YouTube videos to work.

    I admin a board for an association committee I'm a member of (it's a private board for those of us on the committee - saves the email inbox!) We wanted to embed a YouTube video we had made on the board but to do so I had to enable HMTL (it was disabled by default).

    I think HTML tends to be disabled on boards as it can be abused by pranksters (can't think of an example but I'm sure someone could give one).

    I say all this. Someone will go and embed one now ;-)
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    ok, i will have a go. lets see if it works.

  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    well theres the answer. you cant embed youtube clips here.
  • Hi,

    is it anything interesting that I might want to watch?
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    edited 8 August 2024 at 12:41PM
    Hi,

    is it anything interesting that I might want to watch?

    the video for the new single by simple minds. if you are interested just type simple minds rockets in the search box on youtube.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    edited 9 May 2009 at 9:09PM
    You mean embed it like this:

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    Fooled you! :p
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