Video link / embed Tutorial

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southkogs

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Here's a tutorial for linking / embedding videos in a topic thread. For the most part this is based on working from YouTube, but the same idea applies to any video streaming site.
 

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Start by typing your text into the editor, but make sure you turn on the "Advanced Editor" by clicking the underlined "A" in the upper right corner:
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Then you want to click on the film strip icon:
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Go over to the YouTube video you want to link over, and click the "Share" option under the video window: YouTube_sharelink.png

Don't choose "Embed", you want "Share" - and it will bring up a link in the window that you need to copy and then go back over to your iBoats topic:
 

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Clicking the filmstrip in the advanced editor will have brought up a dialogue window that you need to past the YouTube link into:
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Paste your link in and click "OK."

Your post will look like this in before you press "POST REPLY"
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What you should wind up with after you click "POST REPLY" is this:

 

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Another way is to right click, then Copy the URL highlighted in blue; ytvid.PNG



Go back to the message area and click the Insert Video, paste the Youtube URL and click OK followed by the Save button. Post the reply as you normally do.

 
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