Embedding YouTube video in post

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  nil1950 · Member · Dec 14, 2014 at 1:16 am

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  Hi folks,

  Now that (hopefully) my problem to post here has been solved, I will try again:

  Windows7 Ultimate
  Firefox
  Theme Ryu – The first time I try this in my new theme

  I am trying to embed a YouTube video in a post. Found the procedure in Help, made a shortcode, changed the size to what I wanted and put it in Text.
  Saved a draft and looked at the preview – I get a nice black square and with a click on that square I get the message that there is a problem with the video. I should wait for half an hour… But that is no help…
  This is the shortcode:
  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaTuyjS1Ic-A&w=320&h=240]

  I tried with http and https (the original URL)
  I changed the size to a bit bigger
  Tried it in IE, Firefox, Chrome
  Tried it with a different video
  Same error

  When I just paste the URL into Visual it works fine but fills the whole screen and that’s not the idea… :-)

  What am I doing wrong? Anybody an idea?

  Thanks and grts
  Nil

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

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Dec 14, 2014 at 2:49 am

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  The video id you are using has an unwanted -A at the end. I removed it to make it work. Please use the following short code:

  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaTuyjS1Ic&w=320&h=240]

  It is same as yours except that the video id is corrected.

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  nil1950 · Member · Dec 14, 2014 at 2:58 am

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  Thanks a lot! :-)

  To me it seemed to be part of the code as I am not really a code person…

  Just another short question. Do I put the &rel=0 at the very end after the resizing or behind the video id?

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Dec 14, 2014 at 3:10 am

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  No worries.

  You can add &rel=0 at the very end OR soon after the video id. The positioning of &rel=0 doesn’t make any difference. So

  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaTuyjS1Ic&rel=0&w=320&h=240]

  or

  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaTuyjS1Ic&w=320&h=240&&rel=0]

  produce the same result :-)

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  nil1950 · Member · Dec 14, 2014 at 3:15 am

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  Thanks again!

  That goes into my blog library :-)

  Grts
  Nil