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TETENAL · Mar 1, 2007, 05:19 AM

Please make YouTube embed-able in this forum!

brassplayersrock² · 08:44 PM

just link to them. i don't want anything else to slow up my pages from loading. <s>I already have sigs disabled</s>

-a

Railroader · Mar 5, 2007, 08:10 PM

I like it the way it is. Just link to it.

mac128k-1984 · Mar 5, 2007, 09:06 PM

Another vote for linking, I have no problem with the links

Rumor · Mar 5, 2007, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

just link to them. i don't want anything else to slow up my pages from loading. I already have sigs disabled

-a

Funny, considering you have a sig.

brokenjago · Mar 6, 2007, 02:15 AM

Linking is teh fineage.

Gossamer · Mar 6, 2007, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Funny, considering you have a sig.

Not to mention it's a picture + extra big line of text, which technically isn't allowed.

Dakar² · Mar 6, 2007, 11:13 AM

His sig is 2 pixels too tall, as well. [/dogpile]

besson3c · Mar 6, 2007, 11:55 AM

Somebody summon me?

Oversized sig? Where? THAT CANNOT BE ALLOWED!!!!1111

Railroader · Mar 6, 2007, 01:39 PM

I see the resident hypocrite has made his appearance. How pretentious.

brassplayersrock² · Mar 6, 2007, 02:00 PM

tooki (before he left) said that my sig was fine the way it is. ask him yourself if you want

-a

Rumor · Mar 6, 2007, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Railroader

I see the resident hypocrite has made his appearance. How pretentious.

Way to turn cheeky fun into a sourfest.

TETENAL · Mar 11, 2007, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

i don't want anything else to slow up my pages from loading.

YouTube-videos don't slow down page loading. You first have to click on them before they start to run. A modern forum should have them inline. Linking to them and opening them in an external window just adds screen clutter.

bstone · Mar 13, 2007, 02:32 PM

For people slower connections, linking would be a fine idea.

Peter · Mar 13, 2007, 06:46 PM

I'd quite like it.

Ideally done in a similar manner as spoilers, as in you click a link and it loads in the page, if you don't click the link -- the video doesn't appear.
Probably unpossible though.

macintologist · Mar 14, 2007, 10:59 AM

You people are so damn ignorant. IT DOESNT LOAD UNTIL YOU CLICK IT!!

geeeeezz

mac128k-1984 · Mar 14, 2007, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by macintologist

You people are so damn ignorant. IT DOESNT LOAD UNTIL YOU CLICK IT!!

And looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed

I still haven't heard of a viable answer to why linking doesn't cut it either,
Basically, its just because you can and screen clutter. For the screen clutter issue, that's really not a huge issue is it? One window opening up for a video does not equal clutter.

Railroader · Mar 14, 2007, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by macintologist

You people are so damn ignorant. IT DOESNT LOAD UNTIL YOU CLICK IT!!

geeeeezz

Hmmm... who's the ignorant one?

Mithras · Mar 14, 2007, 05:24 PM

Well, I do agree it'd be nice if YouTube offered a simple image preview option -- so you could just have a jpeg + link to the YouTube page, rather than embedding the flash.

Kevin · Mar 14, 2007, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by macintologist

You people are so damn ignorant. IT DOESNT LOAD UNTIL YOU CLICK IT!!

geeeeezz

The movie itself doesn't. But if you go to ANY site with an embedded youtube movie, it takes a sec or two to load the mechanisms that DO load the movie when clicked.

Now, imagine a page full of different youtube movies.

brassplayersrock² · Mar 14, 2007, 07:12 PM

"Now, imagine a page full of different youtube movies."

it'd be like looking at the hot babe thread if one was connecting on a 56K

-a

imitchellg5 · Mar 14, 2007, 08:00 PM

YouTube speeds up my iMac's fan considerably even when the video isn't playing. I don't think it should be embedded. Links are fine.

Kevin · Mar 15, 2007, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

"Now, imagine a page full of different youtube movies."

it'd be like looking at the hot babe thread if one was connecting on a 56K

-a

Yes but that is just one thread.

brassplayersrock² · Mar 15, 2007, 02:58 AM

yeah! imagine a ton of threads with tons of youtube videos. ick
alex

Peter · 04:38 AM

whoops, mispost

Railroader · Mar 15, 2007, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

"Now, imagine a page full of different youtube movies."

it'd be like looking at the hot babe thread if one was connecting on a 56K

-a

We already have a tag {JPEG INSIDE] for picture threads. Do you think we need one for videos? [YOUTUBE INSIDE]?

Just link to them. How hard is that? It's actually quite easy.

centerchannel68 · Mar 15, 2007, 03:00 PM

I'm all for links, it makes things load faster.

brassplayersrock² · Mar 15, 2007, 04:24 PM

actually rr, (if i am reading your post correctly) i'm all for the linkage of the stuff, not for embedment. and no, i don;t think we will be needing a youtube tag since we wont be having embedded youtube files here

alex

Railroader · Mar 15, 2007, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

actually rr, (if i am reading your post correctly) i'm all for the linkage of the stuff, not for embedment. and no, i don;t think we will be needing a youtube tag since we wont be having embedded youtube files here

alex

Sorry, I misread your post. Apologies.

brassplayersrock² · Mar 15, 2007, 07:03 PM

alex