how to take a url link and put it into special formatting! Please help?

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  savetheoc · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 4:08 pm

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  I AM QUOTING FROM FAQ:
  “found the video above on this page. To embed it in the post all I had to do was copy and paste the URL this:”
  The original url was:

  “I just linked and then paste it into the post with special formatting, like this”:

  [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]

  HOW WAS THAT DONE? How do you change the normal url to that? Please help

  Thanks…

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  drmike · Member · Jun 29, 2006 at 7:41 pm

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  Actually I think both URLs will work.

  edit: Yes, both styles of URLs work.

  1st video – /w/ with the _d URL
  2nd video – /watch with the 2y URL
  3rd video – /w/ with the 2y URL
  4th video – /watch with the _d URL

  All that has occured is that the ‘watch’ is being replaced with ‘w/’.

  reedit: Well, this is strange. Actually when you click on numbers 2 and 3 one, it provides a link to the Video on YouTube. The other two don’t.

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  nosysnoop · Member · Jun 30, 2006 at 4:30 am

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  I always took the url link that they gave. Not the url link of the page but the one they give next to the embeded code. Is this different now?

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1Vty1hjZU]

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  drmike · Member · Jun 30, 2006 at 3:34 pm

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  No, that’s fine.

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  naxos · Member · Sep 6, 2006 at 7:53 am

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  Hola, i think that posted videos are too big for the theme of my blog…

  How can i customize them to look smaller?
  Is there any height and width funtions that i can include to the [youtube= ] or the [googlevideo= ] codes?

  can i apply this to other embed codes from other sites -like dailymotion or metacafe-?
  i mean something like [dailymotion= ] or [metacafe= ]?

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 6, 2006 at 8:44 am

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  I don’t think you can alter the measurements of YouTube videos at all. And YouTube and Google vids (along with one other; can’t remember which) are the only embeds allowed at WordPress.

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  drmike · Member · Sep 6, 2006 at 4:49 pm

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  Grouper :)

  We tried different methods of putting and widths heights into the link a couple of months ago but the software won’t take them. I know with my plugin that I use on my WPMu install, the sizes are hardcoded in there.

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  naxos · Member · Sep 7, 2006 at 1:05 am

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  Ok, thanks…
  Grouper is an excellent service and reduces the size, but there are no many interesting videos that i find interesting over there…
  :P

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  drmike · Member · Sep 7, 2006 at 7:23 pm

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  /drmike looks to the left and the right.

  You can download Youtube videos here and Google allows you to download them anyway. And then upload them to Grouper. I note that you’re on dialup so that might not work for you but it’s still an option.

  Good luck,
  -drmike