Embedding a youtube video in a page?

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  douglerner · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 5:22 am

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  I have a page here at http://douglerner.wordpress.com/tao-1992-2006-movie/ – is there an easy way of embedding the video instead of giving a link?

  The docs say that links to youtube videos should automatically turn into the embedded video, but apparently this doesn’t happen for pages.

  Thanks,

  doug

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  statscheck · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 5:28 am

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  Below the video, on the youtube page, click on the share button and then the embed button should be visible. Click on the embed button and then a link should appear. Copy that link and then paste it directly into your post.

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  douglerner · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 5:36 am

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  Thanks. That works.

  I tried that yesterday, but thought I had to put it into the HTML source. That didn’t work.

  This time I just pasted it directly into the page and it does work now.

  Thanks!

  doug

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  sycookies · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 5:14 am

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  Hey Doug,
  I click on your video and all I see is a black display. You definately embeded video embeding code into your post but the video is unable to display. I have the same problem, some of my old post with video now no longer works. Do you have the solution?

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  douglerner · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 5:48 am

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  Hi, syscookies. It is working for me. Initially I see a black display, but after a moment I see the play control and the first frame.

  Perhaps it is browser dependent? I am using Safari on a Mac.

  doug

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  thedarkestskin · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 5:52 am

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  Wow! These infos are very valuable. One can learn a lot from all these.

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  sycookies · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 5:59 am

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  I doubt it is browser dependant. I published post with embeded video few times and it worked perfectyly untill recently. The video just blank out.

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  douglerner · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 6:00 am

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  syscookies, where is the link to your embedded video. Let me see what it looks like to me.

  doug

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  sycookies · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 6:06 am

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  Doug, This is the link, http://wp.me/p1tyh7-rA to my post . There are two videos in there.

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  douglerner · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 6:23 am

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  Yes, I see both videos: the fireworks and the lion dance.

  My guess is you have a LOT of images in that post, so maybe you have a slower network connection and it’s taking longer for everything to display and for the videos to appear properly.

  But I see all the images and the two videos just fine.

  doug

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 6:49 am

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  The ONLY method of putting YouTubes in that simply always works is the shortcode. I’m aware there are other instructions in the support docs, but as you’ve seen, they don’t always work.

  Use the shortcode, which is of the form [youtube=URL]

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  sycookies · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 7:05 am

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  Doug, I guess that must have been the most reasonable explaination to this problem.
  Raincoaster, I use HTML to compose…..that’s why I use the embeding code. I am going to try and compose one post with only a video and see if it still takes so much time to load. Currently I still see a black image at where my video is embeded.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 8:52 am

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  Switch to the visual editor and use the shortcode and the problem will be solved.