[vbboarder]

I spent a lot of time getting videos to display in the featuring, midbox, & rightbox, so I wanna share it with everyone to save you the trouble. FYI, these boxes are used to display special videos like sponsors, featured, announcements, etc.

1. When you first install vbTubePro, its side admin menu does not appear until you refresh the page.

2. The instructions for adding videos to featuring, midbox, & rightbox do not work. The thread's example uses the object tag for embedding, but nothing shows. Solution: strip everything inside the object tag except for the embed tag (don't forget to remove the end object tag). For example, to get a Rihanna video (I luv Rihanna ) from youTube, youTube provides the embed code on its page:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXmJ-yaQAIw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXmJ-yaQAIw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

You need to change that to (noticed I changed the resolution to 250; 270 is the recommended max so the video does not break the sidebar layout):

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXmJ-yaQAIw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="250"></embed>

3. But the above embed code will only show in IE. To get it to show in Firefox & IE, you need to add: wmode="transparent" to the embed tag (ie: after height="250').

4. But now the code from #3 will still break your layout for the rightbox. To fix its layout, you need to surround the code with <tr><td> tags. So the above example with #3 & 4 hacks would be:

<tr><td><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXmJ-yaQAIw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="250" wmode="transparent"></embed></td></tr>

5. And also the code from #3 will still break your layout for the midbox. To fix its layout, you need to surround the code with <table><tr> tags, and each video should be surrounded by a <td> tag. So the above example with #3 & 4 hacks would be:

<table><tr><td><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXmJ-yaQAIw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="250" wmode="transparent"></embed></td></tr></table>

6. For the featuring box, you should surround the embed code with a <div> tag.

7. Note that using the embed tag is only necessary in the featuring, midbox, & rightbox. When creating an entry in vbTube, you can simply use the url address in your browser.

8. If the above codes do not work, you probably forgot to: 1. add trailing tags (ie: </td>, 2. remove the end object tag (</object) from the sample codes, 3. change the width & height to 270 or less, and/or 4. add wmode="transparent".

I know, all this editing sucks! It's poor layout/ template design, but at least it's fixable. Hope these tips help everyone.