Video link / embed Tutorial

[southkogs]

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.

 

[southkogs]

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:

Then you want to click on the film strip icon:

 

[southkogs]

Go over to the YouTube video you want to link over, and click the "Share" option under the video window:

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:

 

[southkogs]

Clicking the filmstrip in the advanced editor will have brought up a dialogue window that you need to past the YouTube link into:


Paste your link in and click "OK."

Your post will look like this in before you press "POST REPLY"

 

[southkogs]

What you should wind up with after you click "POST REPLY" is this:

 

[GA_Boater]

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



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.