Sunday, February 18, 2007

youtube hassle workaround

before, when you click an embedded youtube video, it links to its page on youtube. now you cant do that but i have found a work around.
this is how you do it
1. view source (ctrl+u in firefox or View->Page Source)
2. find the word "youtube" and it will take to something like this

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://youtube.com/player2.swf?video_id=IsyWlcQAy-Q&amp;l=83&amp;t=OEgsToPDskK_Y-AtghaW8oJ3taUr1Vz1" id="movie_player" name="movie_player" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" quality="high" height="370" width="450"></embed>
the usual youtube embed.
3. then find the line src="http://youtube.com/player2.swf?video_id=IsyWlcQAy-Q&l=83&t=OEgsToPDskK_Y-AtghaW8oJ3taUr1Vz1"
and copy the text from after "video_id=" until "&"
in this case copy IsyWlcQAy-Q
4. then type in the adress bar "http://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
in this case "http://youtube.com/watch?v=IsyWlcQAy-Q"

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