Okay how come it shows up embedded when I preview a post, but when I go to post it, it's gone?

How do I get youtube files to embed properly?

The last icon in the line where you find Bold, Italic, Underlined etc. is called Insert Media. Click on it and copy the full YouTube video URL there and you are done.

Are you pressing the "insert media" button in the text editor and putting the link of the youtube video inside of it?

Yeah Sylph, I do that and when I post it, it just shows up with this: [/media}

I sure am, could it be my browser? I'm using google chrome

Edited February 9, 201114 yr by dragonflies

Ok I think I know whats wrong dragonflies. You are pressing the actual "embed" button on the youtube video and copying that code and putting it in the "insert media" button, right? (I just did that and got the same results that you're describing).

What you have to do is get the actual LINK of the video your on (the one in the address bar) and put it in the "insert media" button, then it should work. If that makes sense..

Or if you're using the embed code, you must turn on the HTML, which is in the Post Options when you click on Add Reply.

Last choice.

Aaaahhh thanks, I think you guys got it, and yeah I was using the embed link

You should do a test!! :-D lol

If you're just doing one or two videos, you can just post the link with no HTML around it at all and it'll automatically embed.

I did it, in the OLTL Promo thread

If you're just doing one or two videos, you can just post the link with no HTML around it at all and it'll automatically embed.

Jeez, Sylph, just try it before you look at me all strange-like!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LbLikClWnM

Now quote this post so you can see the way it's formatted.

Edited February 11, 201114 yr by All My Shadows

Thanks AMS.

So all you did was copy and past the link without the coding?

Yep

Jeez, Sylph, just try it before you look at me all strange-like!

As if you didn't hate me enough already, I had to add the bizarro looks too, LOL.

I didn't know about this one, so I was a bit surprised.

Another way to do it is to wrap it around youtube or video tags:

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

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

Edited February 12, 201114 yr by Sylph