Sometimes you copy paste a youtube link and post but the video only links in the post and will not embed a player as it should when a link is posted. Is there a reason this is happening some times? example: http://forum.grasscity.com/gamers-heartbeat/1222233-last-us-ps3.html
I haven't run into that problem myself on this software yet but I know on the old software, it was very picky about the YouTube link you use. For instance, it wouldn't embed if it had the "feature=player_embedded" part in the URL. I'd just simplify the URL as much as possible before you post it. So remove everything that isn't youtube.com/watch?v=[alphanumeric identifier] Versus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILfWM2826LU
Yeah and see, I tried altering the address in the way you did , after I had already posted and saw it was not embedding, but it seemed to just stay un-embedded. I tried editing my post with the shortened address, didn't embed. I tried deleting the link completely, saving my post, then re-inserting the shortened address but it still didnt want to embed. Perhaps its something in the forum coding where once the video is linked it will keep record of that link in the thread and even if you try to shorten or alter the address so it embeds, it will just direct to the first posted version of the link, in my case it was () Idk, kind of confusing but maybe its a flaw with the forum code or maybe its not, from now on Ill just make sure if I link a video to always use the shortened address. Thanks anyways JD
Make sure your mouse pointer is on the same line as the cursor when pasting. If it is anywhere else besides the line that the cursor is blinking on and you try to paste it will just come up text at least for me it does this.....weird.
Yup, here is the link in the other thread directly as I have it posted in the text editor.. This is how I left it after I couldn't get it to embed, seemingly it should embed with that link, but for whatever reason it just doesn't, Im sure it would embed if I started a new post, but for whatever reason if you post a long youtube address ... and then try to edit post after seeing it wont embed, it just will never embed.
Ahh, yeah it's still linking me to the long address so the issue could be that the text area right there is still hyperlinked to that address. If you just select that area and paste the new URL in it's place, it will still have the same hyperlink because you've only edited the text and not the link. I would try deleting the original link completely and then using the URL button to paste the new link so that it's hyperlinked correctly for sure.
Genius. Didn't think that the hyperlink would stay despite me removing and re-inserting the link, thanks JD