Calling all teckies...

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:09 pm

Hello my friends,

Can you help me?....My teckie guy can't help me with my laptop and program problems until next week.

But, I need help now with trying to understand why I can't upload a youtube without copy/pasting it. I just want to flippin post the youtube itself..:-5 I used to be able to do that, but now I can't.

I think this might be an adobe problem...not sure....Any thoughts...

Thanks:-4:-4:p

Post by **spot** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:15 pm

You have a video clip on your own computer and you want to upload it to youtube without copy/pasting it?

Or you've seen a clip on youtube and you want to post a link to it on ForumGarden? Where does copy/pasting get in the way?

ForumGarden allows a Youtube URL to be added to any post.

ForumGarden allows an embedded link to Youtube clips in any of the ForumGarden forum areas within "My Favorite Videos: Sourced from YouTube, MetaCafe, etc. No auto-play postings please."

Am I anywhere close to what you were asking about?

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:33 pm

Kathy Ellen;1106169 wrote: Hello my friends,

Can you help me?....My teckie guy can't help me with my laptop and program problems until next week.

But, I need help now with trying to understand why I can't upload a youtube without copy/pasting it. I just want to flippin post the youtube itself..:-5 I used to be able to do that, but now I can't.

I think this might be an adobe problem...not sure....Any thoughts...

Thanks:-4:-4:p

I never have been able to without copy/paste, I also can no longer share one to my email or anyone else's, it no longer works!:-5

its says it does, but it doesn't!

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:51 pm

Sorry:o

What I meant to say was that I can upload a youtube by copy/pasting the link that's in the address bar, but I can't just click on the youtube and copy/paste to FG.

I can do this....

YouTube - Try to remember /// Nana Mouskouri

But, I can't just copy the youtube itself....don't know why:-3

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:53 pm

Odie;1106429 wrote: I never have been able to without copy/paste, I also can no longer share one to my email or anyone else's, it no longer works!:-5

its says it does, but it doesn't!

Wonder why...can you copy/paste to fg and not to your email?

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:54 pm

Perhaps if someone could do a list detailing your actions trying to get it to work, spot could offer a suggestion or two... ya know..

1. Click on ...

2. next thing you did

3.. etc..

He could then try to recreate the problem and then perhaps come up with a solution..

:-6

I don't use youtube or I'd throw out a stupid suggestion or two myself...

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:01 pm

flopstock;1106453 wrote: Perhaps if someone could do a list detailing your actions trying to get it to work, spot could offer a suggestion or two... ya know..

1. Click on ...

2. next thing you did

3.. etc..

He could then try to recreate the problem and then perhaps come up with a solution..

:-6

I don't use youtube or I'd throw out a stupid suggestion or two myself...

Thanks Floppy...I'll do that. How are ya...well I hope.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:21 pm

Kathy Ellen;1106451 wrote: Wonder why...can you copy/paste to fg and not to your email?

I can copy/paste here yes, and to share to Facebook, but no longer emails!:-5:-5

The only way I can do it here is like you do, copy/paste.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:37 pm

Odie;1106548 wrote: I can copy/paste here yes, and to share to Facebook, but no longer emails!:-5:-5

The only way I can do it here is like you do, copy/paste.

Unfortunately, my copy/paste doesn't always work for me concerning youtubes. I think it has something to do with the adobe program. I'm calling my teckie guy who might come this weekend to help me with laptop problems. I'll ask him your question. Tell me exactly what happens and I'll get back to you next week, ok..

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:58 pm

Kathy Ellen;1106572 wrote: Unfortunately, my copy/paste doesn't always work for me concerning youtubes. I think it has something to do with the adobe program. I'm calling my teckie guy who might come this weekend to help me with laptop problems. I'll ask him your question. Tell me exactly what happens and I'll get back to you next week, ok..

where is says, send to an email, I fill everything out and send it, but it never comes to my email address!

it always did before, and I am doing everything right!:-5:-5:-5

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:46 pm

Odie;1106600 wrote: where is says, send to an email, I fill everything out and send it, but it never comes to my email address!

it always did before, and I am doing everything right!:-5:-5:-5

Odie, I'm sorry...don't know what you mean...

Post by **spot** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:06 pm

Peope are using "copy/paste" as a term to mean something special instead of what it really means, which is something general.

In Windows there's a clipboard. Anything text or graphic, but NOT anything video, can be stored there to transfer it from one place to another. The text or graphic has to be highlighted and then selected (either in the Edit pull-down menu or with the mouse or with the keyboard Ctrl-A - if it's text it usually turns blue), it has to be copied to the clipboard (either in the Edit pull-down menu or with the mouse or with the keyboard Ctrl-C), the cursor needs to be clicked to where the new copy is to be placed and finally the clipboard content has to be pasted into place (either in the Edit pull-down menu or with the mouse or with the keyboard Ctrl-V).

If it's the URL of a youtube clip and you paste it into a post then you end up with a hyperlink to the youtube clip like YouTube - Alcohol / Skin and Bones - The Kinks Rainbow Theatre London 1977. That's what you get when you copy either the browser link text area content or the youtube "URL" field from the right hand side of the screen.

Just under the URL field on the youtube page is one called "Embed". If you copy/paste that into your post instead, you get a playable window in the post. It won't work in ForumGarden > Science & Technology > Computers & Internet because this forum area isn't enabled for embedding. It has to be one of the forum areas under "My Favorite Videos: Sourced from YouTube, MetaCafe, etc. No auto-play postings please."

As far as the suggestions go,

I've tried clicking and right-clicking on the youtube picture, I can't get any copy/paste functions that way so I can't "just click on the youtube and copy/paste to FG" either.The only use of the word "upload" that I'm familiar with involves transferring the entire video clip, not just a pointer to it.I don't know what an adobe is.The words "mail" and "email" don't exist on the youtube page. "where is says, send to an email" must be on a youtube page I can't find.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:43 am

Kathy Ellen;1106466 wrote: Thanks Floppy...I'll do that. How are ya...well I hope.

hey girlie!

daughter said to me today she needs to write a thank you to that shell lady...

:-4

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:00 pm

Ok, I tried embedding a youtube in January and failed....now I'll try one more time.

I think I'm doing things correctly.....I copy the embedded form in youtube and paste it into FG in music and all I see are words not the live Youtube....

html is off....is that hampering the live window?

I'll go now and try it here...post 2367...last post...

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/music ... w-237.html

Just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong....Thanks for any help.

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:07 pm

OK Kathy ,, i went to that thread and doen the sme as you and mine didnt work either

i tried the same in my juke box thread and it worked! so it may be the thread itself:-3

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:08 pm

kazalala;1228311 wrote: OK Kathy ,, i went to that thread and doen the sme as you and mine didnt work either

i tried the same in my juke box thread and it worked! so it may be the thread itself:-3

I can't pull up the live window in any embeded thread Kaz....Is html off on your fg site?

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:09 pm

this is where my juke box thread is

ForumGarden > My Favorite Videos > Music

this is where the other thread is where you tried posting it

ForumGarden > Arts & Entertainment > Music Forum

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:11 pm

kazalala;1228314 wrote: this is where my juke box thread is

ForumGarden > My Favorite Videos > Music

this is where the other thread is where you tried posting it

ForumGarden > Arts & Entertainment > Music Forum

I just tried to post this youtube in your thread Kaz and couldn't

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:12 pm

Kathy,,, here is my thread

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/music ... ost1228310

My HTML is on ,, when i go there... it is off when i got to other threads,,

the thread you are trying to post it on isnt enabled to accept them i think

try putting one on mine

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:13 pm

kazalala;1228316 wrote: Kathy,,, here is my thread

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/music ... ost1228310

My HTML is on ,, when i go there... it is off when i got to other threads,,

the thread you are trying to post it on isnt enabled to accept them i think

try putting one on mine

I did try it on yours and doesn't work Kaz. My html is off...How do I turn it on...

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:14 pm

Kathy Ellen;1228315 wrote: I just tried to post this youtube in your thread Kaz and couldn't

oh well i did,, but it didnt work on the other thread. the waht you listening to one:-2

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:55 pm

kazalala;1228319 wrote: oh well i did,, but it didnt work on the other thread. the waht you listening to one:-2

That's because like Kaz said most of ForumGarden doesn't allow embedding, ForumGarden > Arts & Entertainment > Music Forum doesn't allow embedding, ForumGarden > My Favorite Videos does allow embedding. No other area on ForumGarden does. Just in that one area, anything from Youtube's BB embedding code can be copy/pasted to give a replay frame.

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:02 pm

spot;1228326 wrote: That's because like Kaz said most of ForumGarden doesn't allow embedding, ForumGarden > Arts & Entertainment > Music Forum doesn't allow embedding, ForumGarden > My Favorite Videos does allow embedding. No other area on ForumGarden does. Just in that one area, anything from Youtube's BB embedding code can be copy/pasted to give a replay frame.

she should have been able to do it on my thread spot ,, but she said she couldnt

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:11 pm

kazalala;1228327 wrote: she should have been able to do it on my thread spot ,, but she said she couldnt

The html being on or off is an indication of whether that area of ForumGarden will accept embedded code or not, it isn't something the user can turn on and off themselves. If the ForumGarden area will accept an embedded frame from Youtube then pasting the "Embed" text for the clip will create a playable area in the post. I don't know any other way of describing what to do, it's like a cookery recipe, follow it and the results just happen.