Please Explain Again How to Embed YouTube Videos

Of late I have found using the utube to be hit-or-miss, with the misses becoming increasingly more frequent that the hits. Pursuant my most recent failure in Message 287, Admin corrected my failed attempt.Here is my failed attempt: [utube=2e9IRdEIM-0&t=188s]which yields: Your corrected form is: [utube=2e9IRdEIM-0,t=2382,center]giving us My question is: What is the syntax for the utube tag?In particular, where did you get that t parameter from? The video's question-parameter includes &t=188s, so where did your t parameter of 2382 come from?

You have two syntax options with the [utube] code:

1. Use the entire YouTube video URL, e.g.:
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   [utube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9IRdEIM-0&t=2382s]
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   Which yields this:
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2. Use the local syntax for the [utube] code, e.g.:
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   [utube=2e9IRdEIM-0,t=2382,center]
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   Which yields this, the only difference being that I centered it:
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The documentation can be found here: [utube] helpI just noticed that the documentation fails to mention that the default units for the time is seconds.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2e9IRdEIM-0?si=16uuY8zlEAgX3_p2" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>getsMoose

Here is the translation of [utube=2e9IRdEIM-0,t=2382,center] into HTML (the linefeeds must be removed before attempting to use this as is because they become translated into <br>): It looks like the YouTube-provided embedding has picked up a few more attributes since I first implemented the [utube] code.

Actually, that is how I used to do it, but then it stopped working so you gave me the corrected format: But now even that doesn't work anymore. Or at least it's failing with increasing frequency making the entire evolution a crap shoot.OK, so maybe whatever you had changed before to break using the entire URL has been fixed, so I tried it again while working on a reply: And I get failure yet again: Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot-Mike? ("WTF, man?")Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, BTW, though since your examples worked that shouldn't have any bearing on this matter.

However, this seems to work:
[utube=Dr0QK_hGQ-8]

Another test: Works fine. I took your code, and changed the "&" to "," (which seemed to be what Admin suggested).
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What Admin said and what I was testing was to use the entire URL. In addition, since the URL used a subdirectory, shorts, I thought that would be necessary (though apparently not).At least I now have alternatives to use, which ultimately was what I needed.

If I suggested this somewhere then I made a typo. You can either use a complete YouTube URL like this: Or you can use the [utube] dBCode with local options, where the options require commas as separators: Sometimes when I'm mucking around in the text processing code for one of the dBCodes I'll think to myself, "Who really cares what the separator is," and I'll get more expansive about the separator for that dBCode as long as the particular separator doesn't matter, but I haven't documented that.But there's a downside. Sometimes when you ask yourself, "Is the separator a comma or a semicolon or an ampersand or something else?", you'll pick one, it'll work, and you'll be happy you were able to remember. Then it won't work with another dBcode if it wasn't comma. I should allow use of a consistent set of separators across all dBCodes at some point. Unfortunately this isn't a high priority, so you're best off using comma as the separator.--Percy