URL Tricks for Embedding Youtube Videos

[JFarrow]

There are many reasons for being concerned how your embedded Youtube videos are displayed to your members. I once showed you a hack for how to embed Youtube videos with the Youtube Logo

Choose a Custom Size for Your Videos:

Keep in mind that YouTube's player is in 16x9 wide-screen format.  If you want to change the dimensions, do so using a 16:9 aspect ratio and add 25px in height for the player controls.  For example, lets say that you needed the video to be 320px wide:

--> 320(9)=Height(16) and then add 25px

--> Height=180 + 25 = 205px

 

Customize the URLS:

• Turn off Title & Ratings
  • &showinfo=0
• Turn off Search
  • &showsearch=0
• Turn on Related Videos
  • &rel=1
• Turn off Annotations
  • &iv_load_policy=3
• Force Closed Captions
  • &cc_load_policy=1
• Turn on AutoPlay (not recommended)
  • &autoplay=1
• Loop Playback
  • &loop=1
• Remove Full Screen Option(not sure why you'd want to)
  • &fs=0
  
  

  Customize Video Quality after Embedding:

  Youtube already allows you to customize the embed code and allows the videos to play in HD, but in case you were wondering what the codes were for this and/or how to force play back of high-quality files (not HD);

  Show in High-Definition 720p
  &hd=1
  Show in High-Quality
  &ap=%2526fmt%3D18

  Here is an example embed code using the high-quality "hack"

  <object width= "425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MDedb1Kgjys&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MDedb1Kgjys&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="false" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[Patrick Chappelle]

[JFarrow]

thout you might like that

[Ron]

nice guide

[SweetPotato]

nice. just as an aside, does anyone else put videos on their homepage as embeds in a text box, and use autoplay?
I sell promo spots on my site and am considering offering autoplay - thing is, it's quite annoying.
any advice or experience to share?
thanks
sp

[JFarrow]

sweetpotato  personally i have always found that unless your network is a video sharing network and it is entirely necessary, i would leave all videos off of the homepage.  ive even gone so far as to make a screenshot of a video with play button then link it to an internal video because it is the slowest loader on a home page..thats just my 2 cents

otherwise try using a player like Jplayer

[SweetPotato]

cheers JFarrow. I have one spot that I sell so I'm kind of stuck with it. i'll check out Jplayer

[JFarrow]

did you have any luck with Jplayer integration SP?

[Ambroise]

What does it mean "Turn off Search" ?

[Ambroise]

http://www.jamestnoble.com/youtube-embed-tricks/ say :

By default on all YouTube videos, that really annoying search bar always pops up at the end, allowing people to search for videos by OTHER people!

I never saw that. Did you?

[Ambroise]

Attention, &cc_load_policy=1 code to display captions and not to close them!

http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14...

[Ambroise]

Very usefull trick but the full-screen doesn't work with it :
http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/issue-with-full-screen-video-...

[JFarrow]

i believe it does actually