embedding youtube videos

scienceofbehavior · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 5:44 pm
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I have been trying to embed a you tube video in my blog using the format found on the faq page. I am still unable to do it. I get a white square in my post, but no video screen. Any suggestions?
drmike · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 6:24 pm
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– Pointing us to an example and showing us what you have done would help… :)
scienceofbehavior · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 6:42 pm
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I have added it back to my blog scienceofbehavior.wordpress.com. It is the latest entry.

Thanks
drmike · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 6:53 pm
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This is what is showing up when I pull up your post.

http: //www.youtube.com/v/_GRpqrT9tuUAhttpyoutubecomwv_GRpqrT9tuUAa

So it looks like you might not have the hang of adding it to your post. I can’t find the video you’re trying to link to so I’ll use an example of one from my blog.

What you should be putting in your post looks more like this:

[youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=0GiYWnfX6fg]

Hope this helps,
-drmike
scienceofbehavior · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 8:02 pm
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Thanks for the help. I got it figured out.
drmike · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 8:26 pm
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And thanks for giving me today’s YouTube video on my blog. ;)
emrandhipaa · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 4:30 am
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Thanks for this post. I found this link:
http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/01/26/youtube-support/
That was Matt’s original announcement about YouTube, but where it says copy and paste the above it shows a video instead of the section you posted above:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=0GiYWnfX6fg]

It worked like a charm for me. It even worked like this:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfA-i9K0dnw]
(and this is a nice dance from So You Think You Can Dance)
cornell · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 7:44 pm
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DrMike – that link you posted to your blog returned a “page not found error”…
drmike · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 7:45 pm
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You can thank my previous host for that. *grumble*

-dr(Still reimporting 30k+ pictures into my Gallery install for my webcomic)mike
cornell · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 7:53 pm
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Grr – I may well do that. Staw Wars Episode 41 eh? Got the youtube link please? ;)
drmike · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 7:56 pm
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Actually it was 4.1.

The 11 characters were ‘GRpqrT9tuUA’ if you can cut and paste them.
cornell · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 8:00 pm
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Thanks. And Awe nuts – the vid has been removed. :(
drmike · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 8:12 pm
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I found the original post that I did (Not sure why it didn’t import over *sigh*) and it doesn’t work there either or on thte original site.
timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 8:37 pm
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How weird I clicked the drmike’s blog link which has now been removed and I watched the video.
podz · Member · Jul 29, 2006 at 9:41 pm
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The FAQ has been updated for both Google video/ Youtube

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-google-video/
(Numa Numa)

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/
(Tiny Kitten)
drmike · Member · Jul 30, 2006 at 5:35 pm
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Going over to YouTube says that it was removed for copyright violation due to a report from Turner.

Why Turner is going after a Star Wars fan work, I don’t have a clue but… *shrug*

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