[Farid]

We updated the forum today and decided to add some more functionality at the same time So, you all have now the ability to embed videos from Gametrailer/Gamersyde/Gamevideos/Youtube to the forum posts. Concretely it means that you post flash videos from these site directly in your replies. For thoses who are concerned about the bandwidth and noise related issues, note that the videos do not directly start without your consent, nor do they load a lot of information to display a thumbnail.

It goes without saying that it's expected from users to only post videos that are related to the discussion. Content unrelated to video gaming should be posted in the General Discussion forum. Same thing, it's a discussion forum first and foremost, thus try to add some thoughtful comments to your post and not just rely on posting videos and leave it at that.

So here are the examples:

New: Gamersyde Videos

Go Gamersyde.com, find the video you'd want to embed, for instance:

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_4905_en.html

Click on the "Watch the video now (streaming)" link:

http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_4385_en.html

Copy the video URL hash: 4385_en in this case. And post it using the tag:

[gs]4385_en[/gs]

The result:





Gametrailers Videos

Go to Gametrailers.com, find the video you'd want to embed, for instance:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23742.html

Copy the video URL number: 23742 in this case. And post it using the tag:

[gt]23742[/gt]

The result:





Gamevideos Videos

Go to Gamevideos.com, if the site works for you (...), find the video you'd want to embed, for instance:

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/1853

Copy the video URL number, which is at the right of the videoplayer on the site: 1853 in this case. And post it using the tag:

[gv]1853[/gv]

The result:





Youtube Videos

Go to Youtube.com, find the video you'd want to embed, for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKlbx5niBu8

Copy the video URL hash: eKlbx5niBu8 in this case. And post it using the tag:

[yt]eKlbx5niBu8[/yt]

The result:



See the VBcode faq for more examples.

[AlphaWolf]

sweet!

[Shifty Geezer]

Very nice indeedy!

[dlm]

Interesting implementation. Good feature add, thanks.

[infinity4]

The last video made feel sort of deja vu

[zed]

nice one
for users with limited bandwidth (eg me)
just use the flashblock plugin (though if u have a bandwidth limit youve most likely have it installed already)

[BRiT]

It's good to see this feature now available here at B3D.

It's very friendly to low-bandwidth users. You don't even need to run with FlashBlock. It only shows the first frame of the video and doesn't start pulling it down unless you click on play. I've been running this feature on my forums for a while now. It hasn't caused us any issues.

[Tap In]

sweet, thanks!

[Rangers]

Weird, I was just thinking about this feature and B3d a couple days ago.

[AlphaWolf]

Originally Posted by Rangers

Weird, I was just thinking about this feature and B3d a couple days ago.

you must promise that you will only use your powers for good

[betan]

Would it be too much to ask inclusion of the original url along with the embed code?
Most of the time, I prefer HD version or download the video and watch it offline.

[Graham]

Originally Posted by betan

Would it be too much to ask inclusion of the original url along with the embed code?
Most of the time, I prefer HD version or download the video and watch it offline.

Most videos, if you click them when they are playing, you will be taken to the site hosted version.

[betan]

Originally Posted by Graham

Most videos, if you click them when they are playing, you will be taken to the site hosted version.

You are right, I forgot about that. As I said, I don't watch embedded flash often, flashblock at work.

Never mind then.

[Farid]

We added support for the excellent game media site, Gamersyde.com .

I didn't know they allowed embedding there, or else it would have been added from the start.

[macabre]

This thread should be made a sticky.

[Geo]

Yeah, I think it would do with being stuck for a little while for everyone to get used to the new function.

[AlStrong]

Could we get google video support too, please

[BRiT]

Originally Posted by AlStrong

Could we get google video support too, please

Just trying to give back, so here's some BBCode I worked out, so the Admins here can add if they feel like it.

Here's the usage guide for what goes inside the tags:

GoogleVideo:

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId={param}&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>

CollegeHumor:

<object width="480" height="360"> <param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id={param}&fullscreen=1"></param> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param> <embed src="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id={param}&fullscreen=1"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" quality="best" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object>

LiveVideo:

<embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/{param}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" WIDTH="445" HEIGHT="369" wmode="transparent"></embed>

MySpaceVideo:

<embed src="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf" flashvars="m={param}&type=video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="430" height="346"></embed>

[Mark]

Originally Posted by AlStrong

Could we get google video support too, please

Added the Google Videos.
[googlevideo]8922875251875301807[/googlevideo]


We'll see about the others.

[AlStrong]

Thank you very much

[Bohdy]

How about a method to embed stage6 (divx web player) videos?

[makattack]

I sure hope no one embeds 1080p youtube videos:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2...o-youtube.html

I tried playing their test video on my Pentium M laptop cir. 2005 and it was like watching a slideshow with a 30 second delay... or 2fps.

[granthinds]

Will there be anything that will allow Zoopy.com embeds? It's our South African version of Youtube...