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Video not embedding
Just haven't been able to embed my youtube video into my instructable.
- I tried the using the embed tool
- i tried to copy/paste the youtube URL
https://www.instructables.com/id/Analog-LED-Table/
videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvqgpBtCr8&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-iS0JIfpg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6kD6cpfI4&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANbz7UUkUI&feature=channel
Comments
10 years ago
So just to help anyone else, the fix for this is: 1st get your video source from youtube by using the embed function their. 2nd In your instructable when in edit mode do not use the "embed video" function, rather click on "source" scroll down to where you want it on the page and paste it there. 3rd Hit save. All should work perfectly, thanks for all the help from the rest of you!
Reply 10 years ago
One note: The Source button is an "extended attribute," and is only available to paid ("pro") members. This bug still needs to be fixed, but it sounds like it's a Firefox bug, rather than Instructables, unfortunately.
10 years ago
Oh, that it is interesting in regards to the source option is only available to PRO members! This should be fixed asap, wonder if going back to an older version of Firefox, or just re-opening in ech, explorer would alleviate this for non-pro members.
10 years ago
So this seems to be a bug in the latest version of Firefox. We'll see if we can figure out a work around for it until Mozilla fixes it.
http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20185
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596300
Reply 10 years ago
It must have been in both 3.6.9 and 3.6.10, then. I'm still using the former and was able to reproduce the problem.
10 years ago
kelseymh, thank you, pasting it into the source worked just as you said it would. Still not sure why the embed video function did not work, but ah well its all good now!
Reply 10 years ago
That wasn't me, that was Shadowman39. I don't like to suggest things which are limited to paid members :-) As for why the "embed" is broken, Cloude says it's a bug in the latest Firefox.
Reply 10 years ago
I'm the one who said that, not kelsey. :-)
10 years ago
In the editor box, I see immediately above a big box with a red <b>FLASH</b> in the middle, as you described in your previously posted Question. When I use the <b>preview</b> link, there's just a big gap. Let's see what happens when I actually post...
Reply 10 years ago
Hey thanks, I really appreciate it!
Reply 10 years ago
10 years ago
Using the embed button didn't work in my Ible either, so I went to the HTML editor (source button) and pasted the embed code there, and it worked fine.
10 years ago
The answers you've already received didn't help? In particular, the fact that you got a red "Flash" square means that you were successful. Did you view your I'ble after doing that, or not?
Reply 10 years ago
Yes, I did view it after, and on another computer. Sadly no video, though if you run your mouse over the screen to select all the area where the video should be is a large highlighted square. I published another video and there wasn't an issue before. I'm stumped
Reply 10 years ago
I'm stumped as well. See my two posts above; I get the same behaviour as you do. Either there's something evil in your particular video :-), or perhaps YouTube changed something overnight which is introducing bugs into the embed-code they generate.