YouTube Embedded Links

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I was trying to embed a youtube link with one of my reviews. The video however will not play and displays an error. My link is Here
To embed a YouTube video you need to strip the URL so only the videoid is present then wrap it in the youtube tag. Here's an example of how that first video should be written:

[youtube]deC5-HMSfiQ[/youtube]

Here it is fully parsed:


It's a bit of a pain to have to strip the rest of the URL manually each time. Long term I'd like to make a switch in the text editor interface here since that's causing us to do it this way.
To embed a YouTube video you need to strip the URL so only the videoid is present then wrap it in the youtube tag. Here's an example of how that first video should be written:

[youtube]deC5-HMSfiQ[/youtube]

Here it is fully parsed:


It's a bit of a pain to have to strip the rest of the URL manually each time. Long term I'd like to make a switch in the text editor interface here since that's causing us to do it this way.
Originally Posted by GTN Eric
Got it. Didn't realize I was doing it wrong. Thx.

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