How do you embed videos?

[BSR]

Pardon my tech ineptitude, but I can post videos only by linking text, which shows up as blue & underscored.  But I notice that other members post YouTube vids so that they show up in the post and can be viewed directly in on the forum thread, without switching over to the YouTube app.  How do you do that?

Thanks in advance!

[rvwnsd]

Don't paste it as a link. Copy the URL from the website and then just paste it to the message. 

 

[BSR]

1 hour ago, rvwnsd said:

Don't paste it as a link. Copy the URL from the website and then just paste it to the message. 

 

Gosh, I really overcomplicated things, didn't I?  Let's see if it works.  The following video is the Ballet Nacional de España dancing sevillanas, a variety of flamenco.  With most sevillanas pairs, the woman tends to be very good whereas the man, uh, not so much.  Don't ask me why Spanish men are so subpar at sevillanas.  In the video, the woman is the best sevillanas dancer I've ever seen, but more impressive is that the man is almost as good as she is.

 

[BSR]

2 hours ago, rvwnsd said:

Don't paste it as a link. Copy the URL from the website and then just paste it to the message. 

 

Worked like a charm.  Thank you!

[rvwnsd]

17 minutes ago, BSR said:

Worked like a charm.  Thank you!

You are welcome!

Full disclosure: I couldn't figure out how to do it, either. Then I tried pasting the URL and it worked.

[RadioRob]

It’s a bit harder to learn the software if you’ve used forums prior, but actually more intuitive and simple. 

We basically have to unlearn some bad habits. 🤣