Embeddable video options expansion

[DarthParametric]

Might I humbly suggest incorporating additional code to expand the options for embedding video?

The first is for Game Trailers videos - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=212472

The second is Youtube HD videos - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...hreadid=201698

[stoffe]

Originally Posted by DarthParametric

Might I humbly suggest incorporating additional code to expand the options for embedding video?

Modified the [youtube] tag to take the movie clip type as a parameter. Valid values are no parameter (default, like before), hq or hd.

Usage examples:

Normal/small video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXVT0Khzdhs[/youtube]


High quality (HQ) video:
[youtube=hq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ZaHNHIQOA[/youtube]


HD quality video:
[youtube=hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mqJvnuiUo[/youtube]


If you use it make sure you set the correct type or it will likely look crap. I'll have a look at GameTrailers later and see how their embeds work. Shouldn't be too hard to add I think.

[Astor]

Great work, stoffe!

[DarthParametric]

Cheers. But you know you don't need the whole link right? Just the video ID. For example, using the video in the TFU2 thread, this code:

[youtube=hd]6CssTT_Llo0[/youtube]

Gives this:

YouTube Video

[stoffe]

Originally Posted by DarthParametric

Cheers. But you know you don't need the whole link right? Just the video ID.

You can use either a full youtube url (for a normal viewing page) or the video ID, for convenience. Figured it was easier for people to be able to just cut and paste the normal URLs from elsewhere, while retaining how embed bbcodes on other forums work as legacy for those who are used to that.

[stoffe]

I've created a BBcode for GameTrailers.com video embeds now too. Seems to work OK for the most part but I've noticed slightly peculiar behavior with some videos that I haven't been able to figure out the cause for yet. Like with the [youtube] tag you can specify the video to embed either by putting a full GT video URL within the tag, or just the video ID, whichever you prefer.


For example, either of these produce the same result:

[gametrailers]http://www.gametrailers.com/video/siren-alley-bioshock-2/58165[/gametrailers]

[gametrailers]58165[/gametrailers]

If anyone has an idea of why some videos end up bigger than the flash box they're played in let me know.


(Also disallowed the use of [youtube] and [gametrailers] tags in member signatures. Sorry to ruin people's fun but it does add significant amounts of bloat to have videos embedded at the end of every post you make. )

[DarthParametric]

Cheers stoffe. Kinda lame they don't let you directly embed the HD version though.