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Justin Rose
Justin Rose
12,855 Points

embedded image (youtube) help

ok my embedded image (youtube video) that im following along with in the video, Charlie bit off my finger is not showing up. I went to youtube and tried to embed it, I clicked use old embed code and pasted it to my index.html file. it just flashes for a brief second like a video wants to be there but wont stay. anybody help with this?

7 Answers

Similar issue here, I'm along for the answer.

Justin Rose
Justin Rose
12,855 Points

still can't figure it out i tried pasting exactly like the video and nothing. i tried the iframe way too nothing

I have the same problem. Cut and paste old embed code directly into the HTML file. Open in the browser. Nothing shows. Is it possible that Flash security settings affect this? I have a similar issue with Adobe Captivate 7. Youtube embedded video do not show when previewing projects and must be loaded onto a server to see the results. The problem here was the Flash security setting so I wonder if it's the same (I'm on a Mac running Mavericks).

Just add http: to the beginning of each url in the code. Worked for me.

This worked! I was having the same problem, but when I added the http: to both links in the embed code, it worked! Thanks so much!

No prob. From what I understand, if your code were actually on a server, you would not need this.

That's what I read, too, so I decided to just move on to the next section. But knowing that I couldn't test my results without uploading it to a server first was bugging me. I'm glad they have these forums. It felt weird moving on without knowing another way to make that element work. Ah, closure! :)

Justin Rose
Justin Rose
12,855 Points

yeah same here im running mavericks too, thanks for the tip, ive tried everything. ill see if that works. i also thought it had something to do with Adobe flash as well. I have the treehouse HTML5 book and it says that you can get firefoxconverter which will convert videos (especially youtube) to blu-ray quality seemed pretty cool i haven't tried it yet.

once again thanks ill see if that works

Firefoxconverter hun......sounds pretty cool. I'll check it out. So what exactly is this again? You can download the videos or just stream them at a higher resolution?

THX

Justin Rose
Justin Rose
12,855 Points

actually firefox converter was bogus. i tried the http: that definintly worked. I found another program called wondershare ultimate for mac or windows. lets you convert images into blu ray quality i think you get 10 free conversions. thanks for the help!!!