Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Tried to post another good song in the 'Post a song you like or love' thread in Music Talk but apparently I'm not allowed to embed anymore, it keeps adding 2 'disabled's into the imbed line in my post, when I try to edit/delete the words 'disabled' it just adds them back in when I try to resubmit the post. No idea what's going on. Those 'disabled's are not in the imbed line at You Tube, I've submitted several good songs without this issue. Is this DVD Talk or You Tube preventing me from embedding?

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

One workaround until this is sorted out:

1) Look at the URL at YouTube. Let's say it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHV1CaQWOE . Copy/paste what you see after "?v=" and before any "&" that may be there. In this case, it's apHV1CaQWOE

2) Put that ID in between [ yt ] and [ /yt ] tags (remove the spaces):



It's clunkier, and I hate the 4x3 dimensions of the embed, but it works.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

It's most definitely DVDTalk, and it's bullshit.
If your post includes the following: i f r a m e (without the spaces)
you now get:

iframe
(-disabled gets added automatically. I didn't type it.)

It's the same thing that happens when you type certain slurs or names of 'banned' competitor sites.

Why does IB hate embedding all of a sudden? Does this have to do with that lame spammer attack from the last week or something?

This is dumb. Adam, your workaround works (thanks) but it shouldn't be necessary. It's stupid. WTF IB?

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

^^ (from another thread) A security hole was apparently found when using the direct embedding.

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No idea how I missed that. Here's the thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/forum-feedb...-html-tag.html

:sad:

I hope it gets worked out. Is this because we're on an ancient version of vBulletin? I don't see html code disabled on any other sites...

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Well, ain't that special...:(

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It wouldn't be a problem if Youtube were the only site with videos.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

how do i embed the following trailer code?

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdn.traileraddict.com/css/rembed.css"><div class="outer-embed-ta"><iframe width="100%" src="//v.traileraddict.com/109058" allowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" class="embed-ta"></iframe></div>

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

[ yt ]guGBUaxtwxE[/yt]

Remove the spaces, and:

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

but, only from YouTube?

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Yes, at least for the time being, we don't have a method for posting videos from anywhere but YouTube.

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that blows!

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And also, any posts that any of us have made in the past using traditional embed code (from YouTube or otherwise) are now broken.

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this forum is broken!!

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In more ways then one.

I wonder why people keep leaving? :|

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We also can't properly embed non-video items like tweets from Twitter either. This is ridiculous. Just upgrade to the latest version of vBulletin already.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

^ yeah bitches!

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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-4iVsSn2-_o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Yep. Still can't embed.

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<iframe-disabled width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZnuwB35GYMY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe-disabled>



EDIT: Yep! You're right.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

As Adam expressed above, that's how you embed YouTube stuff for the time being. Tech is going to see if they can have it to where you just paste the standard YouTube URL.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

what about vids not from YouTube?

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Can we at least get an update to the [yt] BB code to 2013 standards, instead of 2007 standards?

Currently, the BB code produces the following code:

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

I recommend changing it to:

<object width="700" height="394"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/{param}"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/{param}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="700" height="394"></embed></object>

This can be done very easily in 30 seconds by any Admin by going to Custom BB Code > BB Code Manager > Edit (for the YouTube code) and putting the above code in the "Replacement" box.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

This "auto-embed" functionality should be doable with this product:

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/show...8&postcount=66

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

I think they implemented your recommendation; the YT embeds are no longer postage stamp size

*edit*
i take that back; some are updated to the larger size, most still showing the smaller version

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

So what's the deal? Are we just stuck with a broken forum from here on out? Is there any time frame to fix anything here?

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Tech is now working on an AME video embed.

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Are we broken for life now or....?

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

I got it...I had the same problem and actually posted in the Tech side because I couldn't post a video on any forum. I tried posting a Overwatch game trailer and got a white space. The code is this....

iframe-disabled-disabled-disabled-disabled width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FqnKB22pOC0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe-disabled-disabled-disabled-disabled>

Note...there is a "<" before iframe-disabled-disabled-disabled-disabled at the start....

I put the [y*] & [/y*] in front and behind the FqnKB22pOC0....erased everything else and it works.....(* is actually a "t")

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

I spent about 5 hours today working on creating a modern Auto YouTube Embed mod for my vBulletin 3.8 board (though it should also work for 4.x boards), and I thought I would share it here. This is a simple way for bare YouTube URL's in posts to be automatically converted to embedded video.

What it detects/auto-converts:

It will only match on URL's that are in BB code [url] links. I tried to make it match non-linked URLs, but it was a bad idea because it wreaked havoc with BB code tags that might have YouTube URL's in them, like [code] or custom [youtube] tags.

By default, vBulletin auto-[url] links text that starts with www, http, or https. That means this will match most YouTube URLs that users might put in their post, but text like m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX would not match, unless the user explicitly puts [url] tags around it, because vBulletin would not auto-link it.

It will handle both HTTP and HTTPS URLs

It will handle www, m, or no prefix.

It will handle youtu.be and youtube.com URLs. Besides .com, it will also handle de, jp, ca, co, ch, au, net, and be.

It will handle YouTube URL's in the following forms: watch?v=, v/, e/, embed/

It will not pass through parameters in the URL like "autoplay=1" or "loop=1" or, unfortunately, start times (t=4m3s, for example), but it will not be tripped up by them either.

What it outputs:

It outputs i-frame embedding code, which is the YouTube-preferred embedding method. This allows either the HTML5 player or Flash player to be used, depending on the browser's capabilities.

Fullscreen is enabled

16:9 embedded aspect ratio (700x394 pixels). If you want to change the size, simply edit the width and height in the XML file.

I also created a version of the mod that outputs the older Flash object embedding code which is deprecated as of 2015.

The mod can be downloaded from here:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...8&postcount=68

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

They did implement it. I'm not sure why it's giving inconsistent results though. Even within the same thread, it's embedding at different sizes. And ridiculously, even the same post will appear small or widescreen in the original post or when it's quoted, like here:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/other-talk/...-week-268.html

If they implement the above auto-embedding, it should be easier though, and eliminate the inconsistency.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

And based on my research today into the YouTube iframe embedding, the [yt] BB code on this board should be updated to the following:

I've implemented the above BB code on my board without issue.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Are we EVER going to get this resolved??? Getting tired of jumping through hoops to post a video, then not even being able to go fullscreen with it. I might as well just go to You Tube to see the fullscreen trailer, fuck trying to watch it here.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Agreed...changes should be for the better, not worse.

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It's driving me up the wall too. I'll ask about it.

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Just FYI, the youtube-autoembed mod I produced above, as well as the [yt] BB code enhancement I posted, have been working beautifully on my board for about 3 weeks now.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Did you ask via snail mail, or was the response not worth posting?;)

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

TheBang, as is my understanding (not a tech guy), your solution won't work on DVDTalk, because we're now on an Autocomm version of it. However, they ARE working on working out the bugs of embedding YouTube.

Re: Not allowed to embed anymore?
 

Cool! Looking forward to 2017...:thumbsup:

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I don't know what "Autocomm" means. Still, looking at the product XML that I linked should still be quite helpful to the developers in crafting the solution. The substitution regex in there is a bit complicated, but solid and elegant for doing auto-embedding.