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How to post a video here
By: Beowolff Date: March 18, 2019, 4:49 am
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okay... we don't have a fancy YOUTUBE or whatever BBC button
like a lot of forums... sorry. But posting a vid is entirely
possible and not that hard.
Here's how I do it:
First off youtube is funky...some of their vids are easy to post
and some not (some won't post anywhere.) Here's an example of
one that will.
HTML https://youtu.be/QvYvy3fKcM8
(okay that link is the SHARED link
from a youtube video already showing here in the Pilot's
Den...look at it and how it's different from the PAGE LINK (this
is the page link--
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvYvy3fKcM8&feature=youtu.be<br
/>...see how you don't need anything past the QvYvy3fK M8
numbers????) If you use the page link of this vid it will ONLY
show up as a link. BUT, if you use it as I've shown you,
HTML https://youtu.be/QvYvy3fKcM8
...then highlight it and hit the
"insert Hyperlink" BBC code above in the post control area it
WILL put hyperlink brackets around it AND show the vid ...as a
vid. (hyperlink bracket example... ...putting your proper
link between those two url brackets should show the vid as a
vid.)
If at first you don't get it...re-read this help topic and
simply try again. Also, remember...SOME videos just won't show
up no matter what and this happens on ALL forums.
Good luck and if you experience a LOT of trouble, give me a
shout.
ADDED 4/17/2019 Posting pictures here.
Posting pictures is A-OKAY... but posting those really large
oversize pics stretches out the browser window for a lot of
users (myself included.) So, if you could keep the pics to
around 800x600 which usually displays pretty good on most
screens. Often, you have to download and reduce those big
pictures but these days a LOT of hosting sites actually include
a SIZER program where you upload your pictures too... for
instance, read below as to what I use.
I use a website (postimages.org) to post anything bigger than
800x600 … where I can reduce the GIANT pictures down to 800x600
which helps with the page loading correctly in 15" screens or
smaller. Actually it helps with almost any screen size. And
you can 'usually' (if the correct format) simply take the URL of
the picture by copy...then past it into the "upload by URL" link
in this website and it will download, resize, then give you
links to it that you can post elsewhere.
This place I'm talking about is this site:
HTML https://postimages.org/
You may have a better or more comfortable site that does the
same thing and that's okay... I'm just telling you what I use to
reduce the pictures so they will show better on our site. You
of course may use whatever site you are comfortable with.
Also...
when posting a picture... keep in mind that when you click on
the image button in the posting controls... and it places the
opening and closing img commands as you see... it is often very
HARD to get your picture link 'in between' the first img command
(the opening) and the closing /img (the closing image command.)
??? ---Sometimes it takes me four or five tries to get my
image link placed properly between the opening and closing image
code...lol. But that is the price of becoming an old man that
is hard of seeing! Ha!
Perhaps though you are much younger and can see better than this
old fool!
Again, if you need help with this or anything here... advise me
ASAP. S!
Beo
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