3 Simple Ways to
Share What You Make

With Instructables you can share what you make with the world — and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.

PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Embedding Youtube

Anyone having issues embedding TWO youtube videos in an Instructable? http://www.instructables.com/id/Automatic-Halloween-Candy-Dispenser/ "An error occurred, Please try again"?

4 comments
Mar 15, 2011. 5:52 AMiectyx3c says:
I'm also having troubles with embedding Youtube or Vimeo videos whilst running XP HE SP3, Firefox 3.6.13

Here is my workaround for pro account holders:

1. Be sure to use the "old embed codes" from youtube and vimeo.
These are usually found as an option after clicking the "get embed code" button on these sites.

2. From your pro account edit the source and add your embed code like this:
<div class="media_embed">
PASTE *OLD* EMBED CODE HERE BETWEEN div TAGS
</div>
Nov 1, 2010. 2:21 PMkelseymh says:
Did you try again?

What browser are you using? What version? What operating system?

There is a known problem with the "embed video" popup window using Firefox 3.6.10, which paid ("pro") users can work around by switching the editor to Source and pasting the XML directly.
Nov 1, 2010. 4:53 PMkelseymh says:
Great news. I'm on MacOSX, and I've been getting YouTube's internal "An error occurred. Try again later." message on any video embedded on any Website (not just I'bles), for at least the past month. My only solution is to then click on the video panel, which opens a separate YouTube tab, which works perfectly well. Sigh...

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