Embedding a Youtube video link

[LadyRider]

Hi to all. I am trying to embed a Youtube video link into my project. It is not working...any suggestions???? I am using RoboHelp 6

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Littel Helper and welcome to the RH community.

Is there a reason why you are trying to link to the video via an ActiveX control? Why not just use a hyperlink.

[LadyRider]

Hi Colum,

The owner wants it embedded, I suggest a direct link but he nixed it. I get Youtube to open but it cant find the video. I know the path is correct.

[RoboWizard]

Hi Little Helper

Perhaps you could provide more detail? What exactly do you mean by "not working"?

* Does the player window not appear in the topic?
* Does the player window appear, but the video doesn't play?
* Does the topic cause an error when it is displayed?

We need more information before we will be able to help.

Colum, I believe the code presented is the way YouTube suggests embedding a video on a web page so that you don't have to navigate away from the page to watch the video. There is more at this link.

Cheers... Rick

[RoboWizard]

Hi again

I just tried copying your code and pasting into a RoboHelp HTML 6 topic. When I preview the topic and click the play button for the video, I see a message that says:

The video you requested is not available.

Is that what you are seeing? If so, that's totally on the YouTube side. Things are working from the RoboHelp perspective.

Cheers... Rick

[LadyRider]

Hi Rick,

The player does open, but that's it. I can search for the specific video and it does play, but I need it to open when the user selects play.

Thanks for the prompt reply

[Captiv8r]

Hi again

Can you give me a link that does work so I can see the video on the YouTube site? If you can do that, I can probably tell you what is wrong with your code.

Cheers... Rick

[RoboWizard · Accepted solution]

Hello again Little Helper

I finally sorted what is likely happening to you with the code. RoboHelp 6 is "being helpful" and converting the ampersand to the HTML entity equivalent of :&. This is causing an issue because YouTube isn't understanding the code.

I managed to overcome it by employing just a smidge of JavaScript. See if the code here can be copied and pasted to make things work on your end.

Hopefully this helps... Rick

[LadyRider]

Good Morning Rick,

Your code worked. Thank you so much for your help and your time...Anita