[The Geek]

Originally Posted by komirad

is it possible to embed the video only when within a custom bbcode?
ie. [bbcode]<youtube-url>[/bbcode]

Because sometimes embedding is disabled on youtube making the youtube video "Not available" and showing a blank screen when embedded.

The point of AME is to automatically embed matching URLs. As mentioned, If you don't want the video to show in a post, just tick the 'Do not automatically embed media' option.

Originally Posted by komirad

Yea, that's why I don't want all the links to convert to embeds, instead give users a choice.

Unchecking would mean that the whole post will not be embedded.
If we can do a [youtube]http://youtube.com/v/xxxxxxxx[/youtube] kinda thing that would convert the url to link, it would be good.

Ok. I see what you mean here. You want an 'exempt' code. Not too sure about that. You can put it in a code, php or HTML block to accomplish that... but I am not sold on creating another code block just to intermix normal links and embedded links

Originally Posted by komirad

It would mean that users can embed those vids that are not disabled and post links to those which are in a single post. I currently do this with youtube tags, but users would have to extract the Video ID from the url to put in between the tags.. which is a hassle and a problem to users not familiar to the url structures/query strings.

With some simple programming we should be able to extract the ID even if the url varies like below:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx&...mesite.com/yyy

Ame does this but can't tell you from the URL if embedding is supported or not. Possibly by using the extract destination option (i.e. a regexp that determines if the page has 'embedding dissallowed' on (or whatever). But that is something I wouldnt support natively as it can be done via a new definition.


HTHs