Embed Videos Using a Mac?

Joe, it took me a few times but I believe this is what you do.

go to the YouTube video page.  There's a button below the video for "Share" and one for "Embed."  Click "Embed."  You'll see a window now with a link or URL Address.  Highlight it and copy it, and then go to the Forum.  When you start a post or reply you'll see that bar with all the commands like Bold and Underline.  see the smiley face icon?  To the right of that is a film strip.  Click that and you'll get a box with 2 tabs .  Click the one on the right, "Source," then paste your embed link from YouTube in there.  When you click the "general" tab on top, you should see a preview of your video in the new dialog box.  If it's what you want, just click "Insert" down on the bottom and you should be okay.  

Hope this helps.

Hi Joe, Get off Safari and use Google Chrome

My e-mail address is in my profile, send me the link to your video

and I will run a test and place it on this thread.

I am a Mac User........ Mike Caruso, gave you great information......It should work, but I found Google Chrome works better.

Embedding an Outside Flash Video

You can embed videos directly into your posts.  YouTube is a very popular site for video sharing, so I'll use it in my example.

Take a YouTube video page, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Notice that to the right of the video there are two separate text inputs: one for URL and one for embed.  You want to use the embed text to embed the movie into your post.

Here's the embed code from the above link:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM" mce_src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

If you are using the WYSIWYG editor (enabled by default, but not available in Safari on Mac), there are two different ways that you can embed a flash movie into your post. The first is by using the flash button on the WYSIWYG editor. The flash button is the button with an "f" on it just to the right of the smilie face button. In order to use the flash button, you need to get just the URL to the flash movie itself. In the embed code above, the flash url can be found in the embed src attribute (it is also in the movie param's value attribute) In this case, the url is:

http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM

Click the flash button on the toolbar.  Enter the URL into the text field that says "Flash-File (.swf)".  You may want to enter a height and width for the video, too. A width of 425px and height of 350px are common values for YouTube-size videos. You should notice a flash component inserted into the body of the message.

The alternative method is to use the "HTML" button at the far right of the WYSIWYG toolbar. Click that button and copy and paste the entire contents of the embed HTML code into the part of your message that you want the video to display.  Click update and you'll see the flash component inserted into the body of your message.

Finally, if you are on Safari for Mac (or do not use the WYSIWYG editor), you can embed a flash movie by simply copying and pasting the entire embed HTML code directly into the textarea of your post.  Upon posting, you'll see the flash movie embedded in your post.

And for example's sake, here is the aforementioned video

Good Luck - Gary

Hi Guys,

I still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.  Here are a series of screen shots when I try to post the "Charlie Bit Me" YouTube video that is used as the forum example.

First I went to the "Charlie Bit Me" YouTube video and copied the entire embed URL to the source screen.

Next, I selected "General".  This is what I saw.

Next I selected "Insert".  This is what I saw:

Next I selected "Post Now"  This is what I saw:

I seem to lose the video somewhere between "General" and "Insert"

Your guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.  Joe