Posting videos in a pop-up window May 13, 2010 1:12 PM   Subscribe

Posting videos in a pop-up window

I can't find anything in the FAQ to explain how to post a video in a pop-up window with the little yellow "Play" icon. I guess everybody else knows how to do it, because it's in three or four FPPs out of 10, but I've looked at the HTML of these posts, and all through the FAQs, and can't work it out. Would it be asking too much to suggest adding the instructions to the FAQs for ancient n00bs like me?
posted by aqsakal to Feature Requests at 1:12 PM (37 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

I think it's automatic for youtube only.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:14 PM on May 13, 2010


Yeah any YouTube video link posted gets the thing automagically.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:15 PM on May 13, 2010


As BrotherCaine said, it automagically happens on Metafilter (not the sub-sites, like MetaTalk, Ask.Me, etc). Here's the origin, going back to 2007.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:17 PM on May 13, 2010


You can disable it in your preferences where it says "Display YouTube Video inline?" Matt's comment explaining the feature is here.
posted by BeerFilter at 1:18 PM on May 13, 2010


And it doesn't show in preview, it's only when the post is published.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:18 PM on May 13, 2010


Great! Many thanks - 5 exhaustive replies in 6 minutes!

Any interest in adding a line to the FAQs for other curious n00bs?
posted by aqsakal at 1:22 PM on May 13, 2010


And now, Baby Ewok...You will die!
posted by BeerFilter at 1:30 PM on May 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


Wait, why doesn't it happen on subsites?
posted by shakespeherian at 1:34 PM on May 13, 2010


Motion carried! Evil vanquished! Thread closed!
posted by Jofus at 1:35 PM on May 13, 2010


Damn you Shakespeherian!
posted by Jofus at 1:36 PM on May 13, 2010


Damn you Shakespeherian!

Get used to saying that.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:39 PM on May 13, 2010


Wait, why doesn't it happen on subsites?

You may as well ask, why does there have to be evil?
posted by philip-random at 1:53 PM on May 13, 2010 [2 favorites]


Damn you Shakespeherian!

Get used to saying that.


O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:55 PM on May 13, 2010


It doesn't happen on subsites because sufficient need for the technology hasn't been amassed there, and porting it over isn't as easy as saying 'porting it over'. IIRC it's on The List of Really Pretty Unnecessary Ponies To Magically Create When There Aren't More Important Things To Do/Fix/Make.
posted by carsonb at 1:58 PM on May 13, 2010


Shakespeherian Rag.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:58 PM on May 13, 2010


Wait, why doesn't it happen on subsites?

The blue is the only part of the site where youtube videos are a typical part of the post content. While a link might show up elsewhere every once in a while, it's not necessarily worth the effort to bother interpolating or to try and coach folks who primarily only use askme, for example, on why and how to deal with the rare little icon behavior.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:00 PM on May 13, 2010


But he saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddddddddd.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:02 PM on May 13, 2010


Hey yeah, why does there have to be evil?
posted by Babblesort at 2:10 PM on May 13, 2010


"...why does there have to be evil?"

FREE WILLy
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 2:13 PM on May 13, 2010


Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from a barrier to entry.
posted by blue_beetle at 2:34 PM on May 13, 2010


That explains why every Microsoft data import widget fails somehow or other... a wizard did it.
posted by Babblesort at 3:00 PM on May 13, 2010


Stop asking questions and just hurry up and post the porn dude.
posted by Elmore at 3:20 PM on May 13, 2010


Pony Request: MetaPorn please.
posted by mmmbacon at 3:34 PM on May 13, 2010


It's where you don't so much have the porn as talk about talking about having the porn.
posted by ook at 4:54 PM on May 13, 2010


MetaFilter: gets the thing automagically.
posted by loquacious at 5:18 PM on May 13, 2010


MetaPorn please.

Yeah, remember quonsar? You do not want to see him naked.

Also, we have chicken-fuckers.
posted by loquacious at 5:19 PM on May 13, 2010


Also, we have chicken-fuckers

Once you go quack, you never go back. Oh wait, that's ducks.
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:27 PM on May 13, 2010


Don't touch it...
posted by edgeways at 6:27 PM on May 13, 2010


Hey guys I've been debating making a Justin Bieber post since this place is kind of Gaga'd out. Is that cool with everyone? Or has the Bieber Fieber not spread here yet?
posted by mccarty.tim at 6:38 PM on May 13, 2010


I am in this hot tub but it is not a time machine please advise
posted by The Whelk at 7:51 PM on May 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


Once you cluck, then you know the fucking way back.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 9:01 PM on May 13, 2010


Wait: porn, animals, Justin Bieber "spreading", do I want to remove this thread from my recent activity now or what?
posted by idiopath at 10:40 PM on May 13, 2010


Well, if you're all going to be so puerile and waffle on about irrelevancies, I'll just take my porn video away and enjoy it all by myself, so there - na nah-ni nah nah
posted by aqsakal at 11:09 PM on May 13, 2010


Blame it on the boogie
posted by The Whelk at 6:44 AM on May 14, 2010


Wait ...video pop-ups? POP UP VIDEO
posted by The Whelk at 6:52 AM on May 14, 2010


I prefer Pop Up Video about Popples eating Push Pops.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:10 AM on May 14, 2010


POGS
posted by The Whelk at 7:12 AM on May 14, 2010


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