Making Youtube Videos Visible?

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Making Youtube Videos Visible?

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How do you get a video to be viewed in trip reports on the RRfan site? I know how to put a link to Youtube in but I would really like to know how to get them in the trip report.
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In the window that you type this reply in, there's a button near the top that says "Youtube". Click on it.
After you do, you should see this in your message:

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[youtube][/youtube]
Now, in between it, put your Youtube video you want to link, like this:

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[youtube]iqiTNHJVp9E[/youtube]
It'll end up looking like this:
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railroadfan wrote:In the window that you type this reply in, there's a button near the top that says "Youtube". Click on it.
After you do, you should see this in your message:

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[youtube][/youtube]
Now, in between it, put your Youtube video you want to link, like this:

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[youtube]iqiTNHJVp9E[/youtube]
It'll end up looking like this:
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Re: Making Youtube Videos Visible?

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Just curious, Zack, but is it possible to make the "embed" link that youtube provides work here? I think it's a little confusing to a lot of people that what you copy and paste into the youtube brackets is just a small fraction of the entire url of the video.
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