Youtube embedded videos replaced by white box

[Ryan_m_b]

I've noticed that when I try to embed youtube videos instead there is a white box in the post with no video, I've tried it a few times only to edit the video out of the post and replace it with a link. Today I found a thread where another user is having the same problem https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3424633#

I'll embed something below to show what I'm talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-Vl-LTk2U

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

 

[jtbell]

Hmm, let me have a try, using PF's YouTube button:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI

I can see this video, but I can't see the video in your post. Are you sure you're doing it correctly? When you look at the actual URL of a YouTube video, part of it looks like this:

watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI

Take the "gibberish" string after "v=" (up to but not including the following "&" in the URL), and wrap it between [ YOUTUBE ] and [/ YOUTUBE ] tags (remove the spaces). This is what the TV-set icon gives you in the message-composition screen.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Hmm, let me have a try, using PF's YouTube button:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI

OK looking at how you wrote that did you copy and paste the code at the end of the URL? what I've been doing is taking a video and wrapping the URL like this (I'm using "{" instead of "[" for illustration)
{YOUTUBE}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI{/YOUTUBE}

Which comes out like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI

But perhaps if I try this

{YOUTUBE}tQjuSw6ZOcI{/YOUTUBE}

(i.e. copying and pasting the URL and deleting everything but the code at the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjuSw6ZOcI

Right that seems to work! I didn't realize that's what we had to do, thanks.

EDIT: Didn't see your edit before I wrote this, yeah I was doing it wrong.

 

[jtbell]

OK, you got it.

I don't remember how I found out how to do it correctly. If it isn't in the forum documentation or FAQs somewhere, we need to add it.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

I've never seen an FAQ or tutorial on the little confusing facet's like this, still if someone needs help they can always ask like this and get it sorted in no time. Cheers again

 

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