Minnesota Disc Dog Club Forums

Ive started to add some BBCodes to allow forum users to directly embed their videos so they display right in line with the forum. Right now I just have smugmug and you tube added but if you use a different service please post it here, ideally with a link to one of your videos and I will see if I can get the bbcode added for that video host.

When you create a new you will notice that under the subject or the post and above the body of the post is a series of buttons. These are BBcodes and you will notice there is now one called smug and one called you tube. All you need to do to embed a video for you tube is press the youtube button and it will put a couple bbcodes on the screen where the cursor is. One is the opening bbcode tag and the other a closing bbcode tag. What you need to do is find the video you would like to have appear in the thread and copy the videos ID.


an example would be this video here....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNicN-o1VyA

at the end or the URL you will see v= and then after that a string of alphanumeric characters.s, the string after the v= is the video id and all you want to do is place that between the opening and closing bbcodes like so.....



and the video should appear if external embedding is allowed by the video author.

The same applies to smugmug videos except of course you hit the smug button above instead. Getting the video id for smug videos is also a little trickier but I am not sure if anyone uses them but me right now so if you want to see directions for getting the video ID just let me know.

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Larry
Oras blog - Trials and tribulations of a rescue dog.

blip test.

For blip things work pretty much the same way. You need to place the video code between the blip bbcode tags. The tricky part is getting the the video id.

If viewing a channel like JG's at http://discdogger.blip.tv/ you will need to click the "This episode's permalink" on the lower left of the video. Once you do that you will be taken to that videos web page.

On the specific videos web page to the right you should have a button that says "Share" which has little up/down arrows to the right of it, click them and you should be able to toggle this to option to "embed".

Then, just to the right of that is the word "With" and to the right of that another option box. Make sure that says "Show player" and if not, use the little dropdown arrows to pop open a list and select "show player" and hit the little green "GO" button next to it.

This will cause a little window to open just below it and in it there will be a bunch of html code that looks something like this....



What you want is the alpha string at the tail end of the url.......

so this would be the URL in the code above..... http://blip.tv/play/AYGjwhQC

and you just want to put the last bit of it in between the bbcodes here on the forum like so...



One thing to note, just above the box containing the code is a little drop down that will let you select the player, some videos may have multiple players to chose from and if you change the player the video id string will change as well. The size of the video may be different for the different players as well.

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Larry
Oras blog - Trials and tribulations of a rescue dog.