FAQ: How to embed Youtube videos and other media
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:38 pm
It's now very simple to embed a YouTube video or other "media".
This version says it supports the following media services, however, I don't see maps working. The author of the code has another version on another site, but a) it's hosted in Russia and b) I prefer to only download code from the official phpBB site. So feel free to try other types of multimedia, but at least I know it works for video and audio: -
That will add the following tags.
Then paste the link to the video (or whatever the media is) between the tags like so...
...which will produce the following.
For audio, it's exactly the same...
[media]https://soundcloud.com/strive_lg/strive ... al_sharing[/media]
And that's it
This version says it supports the following media services, however, I don't see maps working. The author of the code has another version on another site, but a) it's hosted in Russia and b) I prefer to only download code from the official phpBB site. So feel free to try other types of multimedia, but at least I know it works for video and audio: -
- youtube.com, vimeo.com and all the other video services from phpBB [video]
- soundcloud.com, promodj.com and all the other audio services from phpBB [audio]
- maps.google.com (maps, panoramas)
- dermandar.com (panoramas)
That will add the following tags.
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[media][/media]
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[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx56NHTQDR8[/media]
For audio, it's exactly the same...
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[media]https://soundcloud.com/strive_lg/strive-thy-kingdom-come?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing[/media]
And that's it