Youtube

[Someone-Else]

You don't get that option on the iPad......!!!

Since you have no right click, can you not tap on it to highlight it?

[Bob225]

its down to the BB code and the way it handles the links it doesn't seem to like the shortened links - there is more than likely a add-on or patch for the forum to cure it

[Wes]

Stevie, you can alter your pasted link manually.

Example :

Your link - http://youtu.be/wbyqri2sfto

An embeddable link (the same video as yours) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbyqri2sfto < this is how your final link should look, for that video..

So you'll have to manually change the 'youtb.be/' to 'www.youtube.com/' and the 'wbyqri2sfto' to 'watch?v=wbyqri2sfto'.

Sounds complicated, but if you end up doing it a lot, you'll soon get used to it

Obviously, you'll place the link between [youtube]Your manually changed link goes here[/youtube]

Give it a try

[steviejoiner74]

Stevie, you'll have to alter your pasted link manually.

Example :

Your link - http://youtu.be/wbyqri2sfto

An embeddable link (the same video as yours) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbyqri2sfto

So you'll have to manually change the 'youtb.be/' to 'youtube.com/' and the 'wbyqri2sfto' to 'watch?v=wbyqri2sfto'.

Sounds complicated, but if you end up doing it a lot, you'll soon get used to it

Obviously, you'll place the link between [youtube]Your manually changed link goes here[/youtube]

I'm far too lazy and far too forgetful with computers/tablets to remember that wes

Why can't it just be like it is on Facebook when you press share and it just happens!

[Wes]

Yea, but if you look at it, all you'll be doing is adding "www" removing "." and adding ".com" and adding "watch?v="

Simples

[Dean Minors]

It’s taking years for me to look this… wish there was alternative.

[DavidIQ]

Since I can't change the original YouTube BBCode to the shortened "youtu.be" URL without breaking all posted YouTube videos, I've created a second button and slightly modified the original to allow both "http" and "https". The new button also has this provision. Enjoy.

[Bob225]

thanks this will be a very useful addition to the forum