How can i attach a Flash (Swf) video to my posts

[Gaieus]

...Today I would like mention PWN YouTube for who want to download YouTube videos in flv or in plain MP4 quality...

Though I understand that people sometimes want (need) to download YT videos for various reasons (generally not connected to the Internet, being in a country that blocks YT etc) however the Terms Of Service of YouTube explicitly prohibits this so everyone do it on their own risk and responsibility:

You agree not to access User Submissions (defined below) or YouTube Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.

[...] You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission.

[KXI System]

...Today I would like mention PWN YouTube for who want to download YouTube videos in flv or in plain MP4 quality...

Though I understand that people sometimes want (need) to download YT videos for various reasons (generally not connected to the Internet, being in a country that blocks YT etc) however the Terms Of Service of YouTube explicitly prohibits this so everyone do it on their own risk and responsibility:

You agree not to access User Submissions (defined below) or YouTube Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.

[...] You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission.

Hacking is illegal yet people still do that too
Rules are made to be broken

[simon le bon]

You agree not to access User Submissions (defined below) or YouTube Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.

So it is probably not legal to embed Youtube videos here, into our SCF forums!!


And about PWNYOUTUBE:

/..Though I understand that people sometimes want (need) to download YT videos for various reasons ../.. however the Terms Of Service of YouTube explicitly prohibits this../

[...] You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission.

I have found that"pwn" is not a very fair word!
I have made a small search on the legality of PwnYoutube site: Deturl.com and have found nothing significant..
But dear Gaieus, you are probably right. May be I can remove this link from my previous post. What do you think about?

Simon

[Gaieus]

So it is probably not legal to embed Youtube videos here, into our SCF forums!!

OK, I should have added the bold to the following words, too:

You agree not to access User Submissions (defined below) or YouTube Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.

I have found that"pwn" is not a very fair word!
I have made a small search on the legality of PwnYoutube site: Deturl.com and have found nothing significant..

Sorry Simon, I do not geth this.

But dear Gaieus, you are probably right. May be I can remove this link from my previous post. What do you think about?

Well, I hope it won't cause any problem...

[charly2008]

Hi,

I do not know if I have understood everything correctly. Until now I have not yet uploaded videos. So I can, for example, a video, a tutorial not upload as a file from my PC. That means I have to upload the video at first to a hoster like Youtube. Then I can incorporate it into my post. Is that correct?

Karlheinz

[Jeff Hammond]

correct.. upload it elsewhere then use the flash tags to embed it here.

[charly2008]

Thanks Jeff.

[KXI System]

Hey, since I want to embed this, but the thing is its not a video but still a flash. If someone kindly tell me as simple as possible to embed this properly into our forms.

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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="420" height="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.letsmix.com/content/flash/player/letsmixplayer.1.5.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="mixID=28807&format=Big&autoStart=0" /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.letsmix.com/content/flash/player/letsmixplayer.1.5.swf" width="420" height="315"><param name="flashvars" value="mixID=28807&format=Big&autoStart=0" /></object></object><p><a href="http://www.letsmix.com/mix/28807/beats_in_a_bowl" target="_blank">Beats In A Bowl</a> from <a href="http://www.letsmix.com/houseflakes" target="_blank">HouseFlakes</a> at <a href="http://www.letsmix.com" target="_blank">Letsmix.com</a>.</p>

[Gaieus]

Not everything can be embedded with these simply bbcodes we have. What you copied is a complete set of html codes with different values here and there but most importantly not in a single string (a unique URL) that could be added inside the [flash] tags.

The URL does not give the ID of the movie (or whatever) just embeds the player itself:

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[flash=420,320]http://www.letsmix.com/content/flash/player/letsmixplayer.1.5.swf[/flash]

and without the ID itself (which is located elsewhere and called by the thml codes):

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<param ... mixID=28807&format=Big&autoStart=0" />

it gives the error message:

[KXI System]

Thanks Gai, lesson learned.