Posting YouTube videos...

[Jim]

Too bad you can't embed the high quality versions...

[CrazyCarl]

The ability to embed high quality videos is determined by the video host which mostly means Youtube. If they make their high res version available for embed then it should appear on VBulletin like any other video.

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[Jim]

not true...

It has to do with how the forum is setup.

For example, on china-moto.biz you don't simply wrap the video id in youtube tags, you wrap the url in media tags... By doing this you can include the &fmt=18 after the video url, and that will make it embed the high quality version... It works for youtube, just not with the youtube tags in this forum, you can put the fmt parameter after the video id tag here but it is ignored.

[CrazyCarl]

Jim,

I'll check it out. The only ID tag available when you look at a video is without the "&fmt=18". However I'm finding if you manually add it to the url you'll get a High Quality version page.

If wrapping in "media tags" doesn't involve opening the site up to HTML (and all kinds of not so friendly Java and ActiveX scripts) then it's worth checking out. I'll take a look at China-moto.biz and see how they handle it. If there's a safe way to post high res videos on here I'm all for it!

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[chinabiker]

Jim,

I'll check it out. The only ID tag available when you look at a video is without the "&fmt=18". However I'm finding if you manually add it to the url you'll get a High Quality version page.
CC

I tried it, is it what you meant? I don't see a difference.


(youtube]Iq2fmCJgxRA[/youtube)



(youtube]Iq2fmCJgxRA&fmt=18[/youtube)


Andy

[CrazyCarl]

No, the videos you posted are the same. Be sure not to confuse the URL with the IDtag. The USL is the full web address like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvIQxfHtmVY. The IDtag is just the:LvIQxfHtmVY. If you type the whole URL in your browser and add the "&fmt=18" end, then it will take you straight to the "high quality" version of the Youtube. Not all videos on youtube have the HQ option as it depends on the res of the original file.

You can see a sample of how it works here (note the @fmt=18 addition):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvIQxfHtmVY&fmt=18

Jim is claiming that the China-Moto.biz site has the ability to embed the high quality video right into the post/page. I have never seen this before so I'll be interested to see if it's true. What we SHOULD get is a larger embedded video screen. VBulletin uses BBCode for the [youtube] tags and this is based on the "embed" data you get on the upper right hand side of each youtube video. You will see that it does NOT point to the URL but points to a www.youtube.com/V/<idtag> regardless of which version you're watching, youtube only natively offers one imbed type (and this is in their interest because of bandwidth considerations).

I suspect the other site enables HTML in their posts which allows it to directly use the URL, but this also opens a page up to other problems. Either way, I'll check it out. I would love to have the ability to post a widescreen high-res video in the forum posts.

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[Jim]

If you go to the video, you can see the watch in high quality link, or you can manually add the thing to the url... There is one other one, fmt=22 I think, it depends on the video, if it doesn't have that version it will simply play the regular version.... I don't know the specs of each format off hand, they are available online, I believe the 22 one (or maybe it was 20), is for ipod video, with higher quality sound, and slightly smaller resolution...

The site doesn't have html enabled, it simply has different tags to embed youtube with... They can be used with other media sharing sites.

Paying attention the actual videos now though it may actually ignore the fmt tag over there as well... It would be nice if it worked though. It looks a lot better in the other format.