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Embedding videos in posts
« on: January 13, 2022, 12:08:38 PM »
Note: html tags should not have any embedded spaces inside the brackets []

1. go to the video you want to embed (e.g. YouTube or PornHub), right click, and select <> Copy embed code
2. in your forum post, create html tags [ html ] [ /html ] (without spaces) and paste the video embed code between them [ html ]<embed code>[ /html ]
3. adjust the size using width and/or height (see below) [ html ]<iframe height=nn width=nn src=...>[ /html ]
4. add start and/or end times to the end of the link address (inside the quotes) if you don't want the whole clip (see below) [ html ]<iframe height=nn width=nn src="LinkAddress?start=StartTime&end=EndTime" title=...>[ /html ]

Make sure to Preview frequently.  Good Luck! :cheers:

Is there a way to allow embedding  video say from YouTube  in a post? . Or do we not want to allow this?


Go to your YouTube video (or Pornhub video :whistle: ), right click and select "copy embed code".  Paste this between html tags:
[ html ]<iframe width="465" height="259" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EXgDQz6bmiI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>[ /html ]
(without spaces in html tags)

You don't need the title attribute and the size will probably need to be reduced.  Try width="560" height="340" which still gives you a good size (I went a little smaller).

I could add an "Insert HTML" button to the posting page, but it would require programming mods.  Feel free to add it to the Suggestion Thread.

:cheers:

You can also specify start and end times by adding ?start=nn&end=nn inside the quotes of the embedded link.

To only show time 20 through 25, the above example would be modified to look like: 
[ html ]<iframe width="465" height="259" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EXgDQz6bmiI?start=20&end=25" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>[ /html ]
(without spaces in html tags)