Embedding YouTube or Vimeo Videos on This Site

[iacas]

Edit January 1, 2018: https://thesandtrap.com/how-to/embed-videos/

There is no need to follow the directions below. This topic was quite old. Please see the "How-To" page above.

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This video should explain it.

Essentially, I paste the URL in (on its own line) and hit return. Then repeat until one (or more) of them embed.

It's annoying, but it works 100% of the time.

[Missouri Swede]

Thanks.  I hadn't been entering the URL multiple times--I was just entering the URL and then Enter 5 times or so and then waiting for something to happen.  Thanks for clearing that up.

[mvmac]

Thanks for posting, sometimes you get lucky and the first one embeds but I rarely have to paste it more than three times. Still prefer it over the old site.

[iacas]

BTW, I'm fairly certain that if the video owner (on YouTube, let's say) disables embedding, the video will not embed.

[GolfLug]

Thanks for clearing that up. I noticed one time it embedded after a few minutes. i.e., seemed like there was an automatic repeat attempt loop.  

[iacas]

https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/422510-why-does-embedding-youtube-videos-suck-and-what-can-i-do-to-make-it-better/

I submitted a ticket, too, as they recommended. We'll see if that makes anything better.

[mvmac]

3 hours ago, iacas said:

https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/422510-why-does-embedding-youtube-videos-suck-and-what-can-i-do-to-make-it-better/

I submitted a ticket, too, as they recommended. We'll see if that makes anything better.

Well, at least we aren't the only ones with the issue.

[iacas]

As of about five minutes ago I think we (by "we" I mean 98% @Linville and 2% [if generous] me) have resolved this. I won't go into the details here except to say we've added a line to the constants.php file. It's worked every time in my testing now.

URLs on their own line with a return at the end of the line. Works every time so far.

P.S. It may still be important to make sure the URL is not formatted as a link. But, honestly, even that seems to work most of the time. So that might not even be that important.

[Linville]

*crosses fingers that it's really fixed*