Getting Youtubes to show up properly

[thelerner]

This used to happen automatically for me.  When I'd 'Cut' from the 'Share' option in Youtube using Firefox and pasted it into a thread the whole picture would show up.  Nowadays that doesn't happen, I end up with a link.   I guess there's some code I need and couldn't find w/ a search though I'm sure its here somewhere.

 

Thus, whats the way to have youtube video's show up in a thread? Or if you can point me to the right thread, thanks.

Edited August 5, 2015 by thelerner

[Brian]

This used to happen automatically for me. When I'd 'Cut' from the 'Share' option in Youtube using Firefox and pasted it into a thread the whole picture would show up. Nowadays that doesn't happen, I end up with a link. I guess there's some code I need and couldn't find w/ a search though I'm sure its here somewhere.

 

Thus, whats the way to have youtube video's show up in a thread? Or if you can point me to the right thread, thanks.

Please post here an example of a YouTube URL rendering as a link rather than an embedded video. We can probably identify the problem from that example (it works for me if I am careful about the www.YouTube.com part...)

[Brian]

Realized that seems a bit cryptic -- the forum software recognizes and converts a www.youtube.com-type URL into the embedded video player but does not do so with www.youtu.be or m.youtube.com URLs.

[thelerner]

let me experiment here is me just writing down the url on the top of a youtube:

 

here is me writing down the 'Share'

 

lets see what happens when I hit Post.  I think what'll happen is the cut and pasted url will work and the share will give me what I usually get, just an address.

 

<later edit.  Gotcha, I was doing too much work, thinking I needed to use Share, when all I needed was the URL address name at the very top [query] section, no Share required.

 

Thanks. 

Edited August 6, 2015 by thelerner

[Brian]

let me experiment here is me just writing down the url on the top of a youtube:

 

here is me writing down the 'Share'

 

lets see what happens when I hit Post. I think what'll happen is the cut and pasted url will work and the share will give me what I usually get, just an address.

 

<later edit. Gotcha, I was doing too much work, thinking I needed to use Share, when all I needed was the URL address name at the very top [query] section, no Share required.

 

Thanks.

Notice that the version which doesn't work is a "shortened" URL, using a Belgian domain.

[DreamBliss]

I just change the sharing link from https://... to http://...

 

Works every time.

Edited August 23, 2015 by DreamBliss