Hinckley Radio Control Car Club

Hello,
When I post links to videos for example, using tags, the link only appears underlined when followed by a /n and printable character on the line underneath. I was trying to get around having to end each post with 'regards, Ian' -- just to tidy it up a bit.
Although the links still work when not underlined, it just looks a bit odd.
Is there a way around that?

regards
Ian

Hi Ian,

I tested this on Chrome and Opera (both based on Chromium) and saw the symptoms you describe. Firefox 26 and Internet Explorer 11 are displaying it underlined so I assume it's a browser bug although there is evidence of it on the PHPBB3 bug tracker. There are newer versions of PHPBB out now so I'll try upgrading it soon anyway just on the off-chance it resolves the issue.

For now, you could try adding a 1x1 pixel transparent image afterwards as a workaround. It adds a bit of a space but the link does then become underlined.
Website

Sneaked in a youtube tag. Maybe you'd prefer this?

Thanks Ben, I'll go and experiment. !

Ian

Hello Ben,
Well I tried to use

<iframe width="853" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Zke4FGU9DH0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

in a post, but rather than present a playable video it was just displayed as plain text. So I tried to copy the code from your example with or without pressing the 'youtube' button and just get ..

[youtube]<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mjPVrapnVuQ?featu ... r_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/youtube]

Could you explain how its done please?
regards
Ian

Hi, it's a little awkward but you're after the video id.

If you go onto the Youtube and play the video, the id will be the bunch of characters in the address bar after "?v=" and before "&" if it exists.

youtube.com/watch?v=mjPVrapnVuQ
In this case: And a more complex example (it depends on how you navigated to the video)
youtube.com/watch?v=Wr6XPgKcxUU&feature=c4-overview&list=UU4r5eLdM79ptuA4eBRBxUMQ On a lot of web browsers, you can just double click that part of the address and it'll highlight what you want so you can copy and paste it quickly. Hope this helps!

but what I have in my present workflow from the video manager of the youtube channel 'video url' is like Is it possible for me to upload this to the phpbb and have it present as an embedded playable file?

Ian

OK, I guess I understand, kind of!
Thanks Ben,

Ian

"kXViniaa0To" does appear to be the video id there.

Grandad wrote:Is it possible for me to upload this to the phpbb and have it present as an embedded playable file?

Not impossible but difficult. Using YouTube or similar is much easier for us both.

OK, well we've explored an option then.
But I suppose the real question is what is the best way of presenting the videos to the audience.
My intention is always to try and promote the club in a positive light.
If anyone knows of a web site/forum/social media site whatever, where these things might be posted to, then that's probably what needs doing.
I don't have an active facebook account. Craig Gibson suggested to me that I emailed the video files to him so that he could post them on the clubs Facebook pages. That might be a good idea but I didn't find an easy way of emailing such large files conveniently and quickly. Each video I upload to youtube is about 190MB per five minutes. My email client died at my first attempt!

Being ignorant of all things facebook, if you share a video on facebook, where is it uploaded to? Or can it just be linked to by a club facebook 'admin' from the existing youtube channel -- if that made any sense!

Ian

Emails are usually limited to 10-50MB. YouTube integrates nicely into Facebook so Craig (or me, Roger, Ian and Mark) only need to post a link to the video and it'll embed the video like on here. I'm not sure why Craig wants you to email them; I would've of thought he'd known or maybe didn't know they were already on YouTube.

You can also upload videos directly to Facebook and they work in pretty much the same way but if it's already on YouTube, you may as well post the link and save yourself the hassle.

I'll add more later, I've got a lecture to get to!