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noteon
10-09-08, 07:43 AM
I just added a text link to my YouTube video to my SIG.

Instead of the text showing up, a miniature embedded YouTube player appears.

That would be OK with me--but the SIG area isn't tall enough to accomodate it.

Thanks.

MrCrassic
10-09-08, 08:09 AM
Hi, noteon.

It seems that the administrator set it up so that valid Youtube videos automatically embed in the post or signature. I found that the way to disable that is by disabling vB code parsing so that it displays anything you type in between as straight text.

Use the
YOUTUBE LINK tags.

Hope that helps!
noteon
10-10-08, 11:01 AM
Thanks, MrCrassic.

Now I'm actually wondering if there's a way the SIG area can accommodate it. I mean, it's a really cool feature to have video in a SIG, but since it plays right there, seeing half the video getting cut off kind of sucks. Any idea?

monogodo
10-10-08, 12:04 PM
The sig area is size-limited by the Admins/Tech people. The reasoning behind doing so, as I understand it, was to avoid having people with hugely tall sigs, thus causing a lot of scrolling. A few other boards I visit do the same thing.
noteon
10-10-08, 12:11 PM
It seems to me that only a few more pixels would allow the YouTube player to function correctly. Any idea who I should contact? (Or is this the place to say it?)
neilfein
10-10-08, 12:54 PM
Keep in mind that some browsers autoplay embedded videos even if you set them not to, and that slows down page loading a lot.
noteon
10-10-08, 01:23 PM
Keep in mind that some browsers autoplay embedded videos even if you set them not to, and that slows down page loading a lot.

Well crap.

Thanks--I hadn't thought of that. Text linking it is...
noteon
10-10-08, 01:27 PM
This doesn't work:

(noparse)(url="blahblah")Click this text!(/url)(/noparse)

Is there a way to make a text link that isn't the YouTube URL?
neilfein
10-10-08, 01:29 PM
This doesn't work:

(noparse)(url="blahblah")Click this text!(/url)(/noparse)

Is there a way to make a text link that isn't the YouTube URL?

Try tinyurl.com. This thread's URL, for example, condenses down to http://tinyurl.com/4sunhv
noteon
10-10-08, 01:33 PM
I use tinyurl.com all the time, and I'd never have thought of that. Thanks, Neil.
Rollfast
10-16-08, 12:12 AM
I just added a text link to my YouTube video to my SIG.

Instead of the text showing up, a miniature embedded YouTube player appears.

That would be OK with me--but the SIG area isn't tall enough to accomodate it.

Thanks.

Don't use the Embed thread, use the URL.
noteon
10-16-08, 04:09 AM
I did.
Rollfast
10-20-08, 02:46 AM
Well then, you definitively know it doesn't work right.