How do I even youtube!?

[Mutie]

I have been on this site five years and have never, NOT ONCE, successfully embedded a youtube video on a forum post. The User Command Guide says:

For Youtube you use:
[ youtube= ] and place the last part of the URL for that link on youtube

I find this extremely unhelpful. For one, do these things not require some kind of end-brackety thing? And for two, what classifies as the end of the url? To me it's just a line of stuff that means nothing, any part of which could be the end of it :/ Sorry if this is a stupidly basic inquiry, but I am utterly clueless when it comes to this type of computer mumbo-jumbo. I learned to use forums over ten years ago on a site that had a little bar at the top of the posting screen with buttons to insert these little code things...

 

[Frezzato]

No, you're doing fine. From the YouTube page, copy everything that shows up after the equals sign. Then paste that behind the equals sign on the Escapist, within the brackets. There's no closing tag for YouTube. One thing I like doing is using spoiler tags for videos. I don't think it's a rule, it's just something I like to do.

For your reference, here's a video:

Spoiler: You can type pretty much anything you want right here:

Don't forget that you can also type here as well and enter in more text.
For reference, this is the code that's copied from the YouTube URL and pasted into the Escapist
(everything after the equals sign):

[/spoiler]

One thing I've totally forgotten is how to reference a specific time in a posted YouTube video.

 

[AWAR]

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you add ?t=10s if you want it to start at 10 seconds.
Really the best way to learn about forum code is by clicking quote on posts that have it.

 

[Frezzato]

you add ?t=10s if you want it to start at 10 seconds.
Really the best way to learn about forum code is by clicking quote on posts that have it.

Hmm, no combination of anything was working, including # and &.

I found a blog post that has new instructions [http://nimrodflores.com/internet-marketing/video-marketing/how-to-embed-youtube-videos-with-specific-start-and-end-times/] for time codes in YouTube.

Apparently you have to provide both a beginning start time and end time, all converted into seconds.

Sheesh.

 

[AWAR]

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That's weird, it used to work when embedding on websites, maybe I didn't remember correctly.