VANITY: How to Post a Youtube video on FR?

me | 11.05.07 | me

[rface]

sorry to waste this bandwidth for a stupid question - but I want to post a YOUTUBE video, and I don't know how to code for that?

Any helpers....????

[BunnySlippers]

It’s not posting a link. He/she wanted to know how to embed YouTube in the FR post.

YouTube includes the embedding code but it doesn’t work on FR.

[Tamar1973]

Everyone here is correct. You won't be able to embed the video into FR but you can post the link (like I just did) where interested parties can click on it and watch the video on youtube.

[rface]

so I have clicked your link - but I cannot see a video....where do I click to watch the video?

[Tamar1973]

It will usually open the page in a separate window. If you are on the youtube page the link led you to and it isn’t running, you can push on the little play/pause button to get it playing.

Youtube is a funny thing. Sometimes if their server is busy, it will play the sound but the video is jerky. One of the symptoms of their success, I suppose.

[JRios1968]

You have to be logged in

[RedRover]

Hey! Great Chuncheon-style kimchi pizza video!

[Tamar1973]

Kahmsahamnida!

[rface]

You have to be logged in

That's the problem....I have never registered at YouTube

[Rightly Biased]

Here ya go newbie!!

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[RedRover]

You said it!

[Terpfen]

Yes, YouTube allows you to embed videos on sites: they even provide the code to do it on each video’s page.

FR, however, does not allow it. The code simply will not work. You have to create a text link to the video.

[lilylangtree]

Thanks. Will try again.

[lilylangtree]

Thanks. I’ll give it another shot.

[Arrowhead1952]

Lily, copy my tagline and post it into the reply window without the ( ). It will show up like this. Every picture starts with

<

then type

img src=

and close with

>

Find the picture you want to post from the internet, right click on it and go to the "Properties" at the bottom of the menu box to find the URL.

[lilylangtree]

IT FINALLY WORKS! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

[Arrowhead1952]

There you go!! Congratulations. Now, just Goggle some images you want to post and save into a word document. Just add the

<

img src=

and the

>

without spaces and copy and paste onto the threads.