I've noticed a lot more people are linking videos in forum posts now. I installed a youtube mod a while ago, but no one except me has used it (I guess clicking the little button and pasting in the code must have been a bit too hard).
To that end, my brother has coded a nice little mod for this forum software that will grab a URL that is pasted and turn it into a in-line video, should the video provider be friendly enough to allow this sort of thing. At the moment, these are the providers that will allow their videos to be included inside forum posts:
Youtube, Metacafe, iFilm, Putfile, Bolt, Google Video, Guba, Grouper, Revver, Atom Films, Veoh, Myspace Video, Vimeo, Vmix, Eyespot, Liveleak, Sapo
and these are the ones that don't:
Photobucket, Daily Motion, vidiLife, Yahoo Video, AOL Uncut, Yikers, vSocial, ManiaTV, Phanfare, CastPost, Jumpcut, Sharkle, Clipshack, Filecow, Break. MTV
There is nothing really that you need to do, except to paste in your URL and make sure that the option to "automatically retrieve titles from external links" is unticked in the box under "miscellaneous options", under the "submit" button.
This will simply mean that rather than people having to click on the link to open another external site to see the video, the video will appear directly inside you post. How cool is that?
I hope everyone finds this useful.
To that end, my brother has coded a nice little mod for this forum software that will grab a URL that is pasted and turn it into a in-line video, should the video provider be friendly enough to allow this sort of thing. At the moment, these are the providers that will allow their videos to be included inside forum posts:
Youtube, Metacafe, iFilm, Putfile, Bolt, Google Video, Guba, Grouper, Revver, Atom Films, Veoh, Myspace Video, Vimeo, Vmix, Eyespot, Liveleak, Sapo
and these are the ones that don't:
Photobucket, Daily Motion, vidiLife, Yahoo Video, AOL Uncut, Yikers, vSocial, ManiaTV, Phanfare, CastPost, Jumpcut, Sharkle, Clipshack, Filecow, Break. MTV
There is nothing really that you need to do, except to paste in your URL and make sure that the option to "automatically retrieve titles from external links" is unticked in the box under "miscellaneous options", under the "submit" button.
This will simply mean that rather than people having to click on the link to open another external site to see the video, the video will appear directly inside you post. How cool is that?
I hope everyone finds this useful.