Just in! ;D
The GreatLakesBass.com forum now features automatic video embedding for some of the more popular video hosting services. You can now show the video in your posts on the forum just by pasting in the general default video URL from the services below.
If the video player does not appear in Preview mode or after you Post your topic, then there is a problem with the URL you provided or that particular service is not supported.
For Youtube, you want to provide the direct, simple URL for the video (not a channel version or some type of promoted or otherwise adjusted code - some adjusted code might still work, just depends what has been added in what order:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfDcwe0d7For Facebook example, Facebook often throws extra information they using into their links that will cause the auto-embedding not to work. Here's an example of a video linked from a fan page that won't work because of the '/#!' thrown in the middle:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=1421099627821To fix it, all you have to do is delete anything that is not facebook.com and /video/video.php?v=12345videoID - the '/#!' in this case so you end up with:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1421099627821Vimeo uses generally short, simple URL's - for example:
http://www.vimeo.com/20602861See an example of the video output for this link at the end of this post.
The online video streaming services that should automatically embed in your post at this time are:
College Humor DailyMotion
ESPN Facebook
Google Video Metacafe
MySpace Tinypic.com
Twitvid Vimeo
Yahoo Youtube
Here's that Vimeo video automatically embedded in this post just by copying in the above URL:
http://www.vimeo.com/20602861
Hope you like it and if you have a video service you frequent and like, and think might have videos that would make sense to be able to be embedded on GreatLakesBass.com, send me the video service name and I can see if it is available to be added.