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[Rob]

Help me lentower...

...you are my only hope.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJR4pja78Fc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJR4pja78Fc</a>

I put the URL between the brackets and put in the correct size, but all I get is this white box.  What am I doing wrong?

P.s. if anyone else knows, I would be forever in your debt.  Which is a nice way to say that I will never pay you back

[spider jerusalem]

...you are my only hope.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJR4pja78Fc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJR4pja78Fc</a>

I put the URL between the brackets and put in the correct size, but all I get is this white box.  What am I doing wrong?

afaik, flash tag isnt YouTube tag.

[Rob]

I don't know what that means.

[spider jerusalem]

I don't know what that means.

it means you CANNOT embed an youtube video

[lentower]

...you are my only hope.

I put the URL between the brackets and put in the correct size, but all I get is this white box.  What am I doing wrong?

P.s. if anyone else knows, I would be forever in your debt.  Which is a nice way to say that I will never pay you back

gawd, i'm not sure i want to be anyone's "only hope"

there are others on the box here who understand this
just the overprecise pedantic-ness that computers need to do anything useful

each video has a URL that take you to a page that includes an embedded player for that video,
and an embed URL that is used by the video player, including the [flash ] BBC here on the new box

you used the former
for youtube, to transfer it to the later, just change the text "watch?v=" to "v/"

Code: [Select]

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJR4pja78Fc
becomes
   http://www.youtube.com/v/VJR4pja78Fc
which gives us
  [flash=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/v/VJR4pja78Fc[/flash]
the second kind of URL can also be extracted from the embed text field
on the youtube web page the former displays, or via the menu button on the youtube player

and now for the video

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/VJR4pja78Fc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/VJR4pja78Fc</a>

other sites use other text formats, but you can usually get the embed URL from the video's web page

i wish that this stuff was easier

i also wish that i was a better tech writer

[spider jerusalem]

I tried that before repling Rob, but it did not work. blank box, no video!

[Rob]

Thank you lentower!

[lentower]

most welcome!

[spider jerusalem]

[EDIT] I'm felling stupid.
i tried what you said before you, and it didn't work. only showed a blank white screen. tried again whit what you said and same thing... re-installed flash... same thing. phone rings. i go answer the phone. i took one minute on it. i came back and it was loaded. in other words, it took a hell out of time to load here. don't know why, since every embedded video loads automatically here. [/EDIT]
 

strange!
i see no video here.

i think my flash plug-in is screwed! i will re-install it

[lentower]

[EDIT] I'm felling stupid.
i tried what you said before you, and it didn't work. only showed a blank white screen. tried again whit what you said and same thing... re-installed flash... same thing. phone rings. i go answer the phone. i took one minute on it. i came back and it was loaded. in other words, it took a hell out of time to load here. don't know why, since every embedded video loads automatically here. [/EDIT]
 
strange!
i see no video here.

i think my flash plug-in is screwed! i will re-install it

i have a number of rules of thumbs about these kind of glitches, two kinda apply here:

* be patient

* wait for it to be a problem at least twice

this may have been a problem out on the internet, and not what you did at all.
one of those temporary stoppage or slow downs
the video files are very very large

best -len

[spider jerusalem]

okay. my bad. sorry

but it takes long to load the "player", not the video - if you know what i mean.

anyways!
cheers

[lentower]

okay. my bad. sorry

but it takes long to load the "player", not the video - if you know what i mean.

anyways!
cheers

yup

we're talkin about how long a user waits, not how long it takes to move the data

as you may know, when the player starts the video,
most of the video hasn't been loaded yet
but as the data transfers faster then it is played
that's cool

unlike president ford
compta's can walk and chew gum at the same time

[spider jerusalem]

yup

we're talkin about how long a user waits, not how long it takes to move the data

as you may know, when the player starts the video,
most of the video hasn't been loaded yet
but as the data transfers faster then it is played
that's cool

unlike president ford
compta's can walk and chew gum at the same time

now i got confused... here it takes kind of a time to load the "PLAY" image, which will indeed load the video. it does not happens in other places. but never mind... i usually browser with Flash-Block, but i was on a fresh install in another partition, which i use for tests.

cheers!
:] 

[hugo torres]

WHAT ABOUT MYSPACE VIDEOS?

[lentower]

WHAT ABOUT MYSPACE VIDEOS?

oscar wants to know how to embed this video, the apple store i'm at is blockign myspace

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=14220113