XF 1.1 BB Code Media Improvements in XenForo 1.1

This video looks at some of the improvements we have made to the BB code media system in XenForo 1.1, allowing you to embed media from a far wider variety of sources.

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Update:

Let's call this rapid feedback reaction or something buzz-wordy like that. Anyway, just a few hours after posting the last video, I have a little update for you

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[Saeed]

Brilliant job there, Kier!

 

[Markos]

Great Job, Kier! I'm also prefer to have simply the embed in the post...the users doesn't like to have links.

 

[MGSteve]

You do know you're all delaying 1.1 by asking Kier to do this don't you?

 

[Kevin]

Eh? Most members will just post the url and not worry about clicking extra buttons just to embed some form of media.

Maybe for you and your members but certainly not for the ones I communicate with.

 

[kkm323]

not impressive, i can live with it or without it

thanx kier for the vid. still waiting for the cool stuff

 

[Floris]

not impressive, i can live with it or without it

thanx kier for the vid. still waiting for the cool stuff

Yeah, because you rather have a site with links that take your target audience away from yours to another site. Rather than have the various video sources that are out there embedded; Which keeps your user around, as well as provoke them to share the one they found, and not just that, but it adds to the experience.

A modern solution to sharing video in a community. Without having to go through hoops.

I am not saying XenForo Limited is new with this. But they're doing the Apple approach and 'doing it right'.

As admin all you have to do is set up a few of these once, and your users enjoy it for ages. You don't have to think twice about it anymore. Now, THAT.. is cool.

Just my 2c.

 

[jmurrayhead]

Floris just hit the nail on the head.

 

[EQnoble]

Floris just hit the nail on the head.

exactly.....and the community will continue to define media sites as they have before except now they have more options for sites to post up here...I know it is going to help me define some of the sites that have been kicking me in the rear.

 

[bookmark]

looks great.nice improvement.

 

[CTXMedia]

Looks very flexible ...

 

[Despair]

Heh, if I'm not mistaken even though megavideo has the extra hash in its embed code, it's not actually required. If you try embedding a video with just the id it'll still work, although I suppose it's still a better idea to store the rest incase they ever change that in the future. Still good to show the flexibility though. It was more of revisiting content scraping for me.

 

[physicspirate]

Cool feature, whats the difference between this and that oembed that is pretty popular? Is it the same thing, only you have to go through and manually build your codes, where oembed has them all(mostly) predefined?

 

[Reeve of Shinra]

Its the little touches of excellence that make me glad to use xenforo.

 

[Kier]

Take a look back at the first post for an update and a larger version of this video:

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[iTuN3r]

Take a look back at the first post for an update.

Damn that's awesome

Xenforo is full of surprises .

 

[Reeve of Shinra]

That's more than awesome! That's ... unprecedented!

by the way, as a novice coder - I actually learned A LOT from the tutorial where Kier coded an advanced media option.

 

[Carlos]

Take a look back at the first post for an update.

At CODForums, I have a lot of members just posting links to youtube videos. It has always been frustrating ['cause nobody's using the embed button on the editor box!]; I always had to edit the posts themselves to make the posts look presentable. So, this is a MUCH, much needed feature you made in the second video. Thanks Kier.

You have just made my job much easier now.

 

[kkm323]

Take a look back at the first post for an update.

thats the type of feature i was looking for since xf beta
luv it, xf rock all day long

kier you are truly amazing

 

[kkm323]

Yeah, because you rather have a site with links that take your target audience away from yours to another site. Rather than have the various video sources that are out there embedded; Which keeps your user around, as well as provoke them to share the one they found, and not just that, but it adds to the experience.

A modern solution to sharing video in a community. Without having to go through hoops.

I am not saying XenForo Limited is new with this. But they're doing the Apple approach and 'doing it right'.

As admin all you have to do is set up a few of these once, and your users enjoy it for ages. You don't have to think twice about it anymore. Now, THAT.. is cool.

Just my 2c.

not really youtube is the most used site in my forum, anyway many of my users already post link, but thanx to kier for providing the auto-embedding its going to help a lot

 

[Chromaniac]

not sure if this has been asked/answered already... any plans to support embedding of tweets?

(i had personally love it if xenforo collaborates with embedly and use their API for such embeds. would make it very powerful)