Jerry kindly taught me how to do this and sent some useful links to it all. I've done the board administration parts of this, but this youtube video shows you how to both do that, and to add a video to a post, so I'm going to do that here, too. The key is to use the youtube button above, then paste just the ID part of your url between the tags this inserts. Done!
So suppose you have a youtube video you want to post, we'll use one of mine as an example. The URL is (copied from browser):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ck8mO-2olw
That's just a link that will take you to youtube. But this:
Should put that same video inline here. And it worked, first try
Since you can't see what I did here's the clue.
Once I decided where in this post the video should go, I put the cursor there and clicked the "youtube" button above and got some tags in square brackets.
I then copied just the identifier from the youtube url, in this case the 2ck8mO-2olw to in between the new tags. Bingo!
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Note, we store pictures up here ourselves, on my bandwidth, and will be doing a HOWTO on preparing them for that. Hint -- we don't need 5 or 20 megapixel poorly composed pictures in large quantities per post -- make them count, people -- try and keep them around 1024x768 or so, and only good ones, the kind that really are worth a thousand words. Still a lot of people out there with monitors that won't do more anyway, and most autoscaling that bulletin boards do really stinks -- it comes out better if you do it first.
For those who run your own forum, a youtube video on how to do this is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDWOEIUP ... re=related
And the webpage giving the magic BBCode is at:
http://www.qualityposts.com/AddingMoviesToForums.php
Enjoy! Now we can have videos inline here, but we don't have to store and convert them ourselves. Just put them up on youtube and link with this method.
So we expect to see some good videos of your work now -- but please, no cute kitty cats playing piano -- already have that going on live here.
Here is a link to how to use some other features we have here:
BBcode help page
I have tried to set board limits pretty high for things like pix and attachments (7 attachements up to 10 mb each). I don't want that to be a limit on communication style here, I want posts that are complete.
Of course, if you go nuts posting megapixel pictures that won't even fit on most monitors, and huge attachment files, you'll slow the board down for everyone, so please don't -- use a photo editor to crop and scale and things like that if you can. Avoid pictures that aren't worth a thousand words, more or less.