How to embed a youtube video:
1. Copy the URL
2. Paste it into your post without any markup
It'll embed automatically.
#2 is key--you can't paste it in as an HTML link. 3 ways to paste plain text:
1. Shift-Ctrl-V (rather than just Ctrl-V) pastes plain text in most browsers
2. Right click and select "Paste as plain text" from the context menu
3. If you're in the GUI editor, click the little clipboard icon that has "Paste as plain text" as the hover icon. It's in between the "Paste" and the "Paste from Word" icons:
It used to be the case that you needed the URL that started http://www.youtube.com/ ; https or m.youtube.com or youtu.be wouldn't work. I think those are fixed, now.
The "media" tags don't work. Don't even try them.
EDIT:
ANOTHER method:
Try this:
1. Paste the link
2. Highlight it
3. Click on the "unlink" icon in the menu bar (it's a broken chain link that is only active when you have a link highlighted)
4. Post
1. Copy the URL
2. Paste it into your post without any markup
It'll embed automatically.
#2 is key--you can't paste it in as an HTML link. 3 ways to paste plain text:
1. Shift-Ctrl-V (rather than just Ctrl-V) pastes plain text in most browsers
2. Right click and select "Paste as plain text" from the context menu
3. If you're in the GUI editor, click the little clipboard icon that has "Paste as plain text" as the hover icon. It's in between the "Paste" and the "Paste from Word" icons:
It used to be the case that you needed the URL that started http://www.youtube.com/ ; https or m.youtube.com or youtu.be wouldn't work. I think those are fixed, now.
The "media" tags don't work. Don't even try them.
EDIT:
ANOTHER method:
Try this:
1. Paste the link
2. Highlight it
3. Click on the "unlink" icon in the menu bar (it's a broken chain link that is only active when you have a link highlighted)
4. Post