Saturday, July 5, 2008

"How do I embed from youtube?"

I still see some posters say they don't know how embed from youtube into a SoSH post. Here's the easiest way (thanks to ieshan for the heads up in the Comments):
1) Get the youtube URL. For example, http://youtube.com/watch?v=UZVZTIRGNWI
2) Copy everything after "v=". In the above example, copy "UZVZTIRGNWI".
3) Paste what you had copied into your post in [youtube] tags. For the above example, post "[youtube]UZVZTIRGNWI[/youtube]".

Here's the next easiest way:
1) While you're posting in SoSH, below your text is a dropdown that says "Post Options". Change that dropdown from "HTML Off" to "HTML On - Auto Linebreak Mode".
2) Go to youtube. Highlight what it says under "Embed", which should be on the right side of the page.
3) Go to your post in SoSH. Paste what you had just copied into your post.

There are some scenarios where you won't be able to embed. Some youtube clips disallow embedding. Also, there are some sections from SoSH (i.e. game threads) that don't have the "Post Options" dropdown, but you can still use the URL method mentioned above to post in those sections.