Posting Video's Directly to the Forum

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:08 am

I remain interested in posting video segments directly to the forum. I am playing with some tools that I hope will allow me to do that. Please try to ignore any posts that are made, to that end, that are not successful.

I believe this can be done on some other forums but I do not know what makes it possible there and not here.

It can be done by posting a link to an existing you tube video (url) but what I would like to do is avoid the you tube connection.

heathicus · Post by **heathicus** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:15 pm

I don't think it is possible here. Well, it may be possible, but just not enabled. That functionality would have to be enabled by the forum administrator. He would probably have to enable HTML tags in the posts and that might be a security risk. It might also require an update/upgrade to the software, but I'm not sure.

YouTube offers two versions of their embed code for embedding videos on forums or websites. I've tried them both here, and neither work.

On another forum I'm on, the "old embed code" worked, but the newer "iframe" based code didn't. The admin there recently updated the forum software and now neither of those work anymore. Now, the forum has a built-in YouTube tag and we can just put [youtube] and [/youtube] tags around the web link and it will display the video.

Testing bbcode and html tags:

bbcode bold
html bold

bbcode italics
html italics

[url=http://*]bbcode link[/url]
<a href=http://*>html link

As you can see, the html tags are disabled here...

damagi · Post by **damagi** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:52 pm

Html tags are disabled here for good reason, in that it invites more spammers.

One option that many forums use is to prevent the use of html until you have a certain number of posts under your belt.

As for video hosting - youtube is the most popular choice. I use vimeo for most of my personal videos.

The youtube and similar video embedding tags are part of the vBulletin 4.0 software. Probably not an upgrade that shopsmith is terribly worried about currently.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:57 pm

Yes, I think that I remember when html tagging was changed here on the forum. But...I am not certain that I know/understand why it was done. I seem to recall it having to do with spammers. If that is accurate, I would have to ask if there really is an indication that i wast successful. We continual to have those nuisance spammers.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:04 pm

dusty wrote:Yes, I think that I remember when html tagging was changed here on the forum. But...I am not certain that I know/understand why it was done. I seem to recall it having to do with spammers. If that is accurate, I would have to ask if there really is an indication that it successful. We continual to have those nuisance spammers.

Those spammers are being let in the front door(and slammed shut upon recognizing their intentions).

i.e. they are signing up as a 'normal' new member. IIUC enabling html... creates an open back door which can be shut only by disabling it.

joedw00 · Post by **joedw00** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:56 am

Here is what the Webmaster says "Quote" It is not available in the version of the forum software we run. We have no current plans to add video due to space and bandwidth constraints.

Webmaster

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:30 am

joedw00 wrote:Here is what the Webmaster says "Quote" It is not available in the version of the forum software we run. We have no current plans to add video due to space and bandwidth constraints.

Webmaster

Translation - $$$$$$$ Not a complaint, just fact!

damagi · Post by **damagi** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:45 pm

joedw00 wrote:Here is what the Webmaster says "Quote" It is not available in the version of the forum software we run. We have no current plans to add video due to space and bandwidth constraints.

Webmaster

To be clear - adding streaming video support via youtube or similar would cause zero bandwidth increase, since its equivilent to the iframe/embed type stuff. The video is still hosted and streamed from somewhere else.

Unclear if that is a misunderstanding or what.

It would cost money to upgrade from 3.5.4 to 4.x.

joedw00 · Post by **joedw00** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:46 pm

JPG40504 wrote:Translation - $$$$$$$ Not a complaint, just fact!

Very True!