AndyB
Well-known member
In order to get the best experience for your members when watching YouTube videos on your site, you will want to edit the following:
Admin CP -> Home -> BB Code Media Sites -> YouTube
The default code is:
This is what I use on my forum:
There are four settings that I changed or added:
Changed width and height:
width="720" height="480"
Added a border to the embedded player, this is useful for sites that have a dark style:
style="border:thin solid #333"
Start the player in High Quality mode:
vq=hd1080
Remove annotations:
iv_load_policy=3
Here's a link which shows all the YouTube Embedded Player Parameters:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters
Remember the first parameter will be preceded by the ? symbol and the following parameters will be preceded with an & symbol.
Admin CP -> Home -> BB Code Media Sites -> YouTube
The default code is:
Code:
<iframe width="500" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/{$id}?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>This is what I use on my forum:
Code:
<iframe width="720" height="480" style="border:thin solid #333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/{$id}?vq=hd1080&iv_load_policy=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>There are four settings that I changed or added:
Changed width and height:
width="720" height="480"
Added a border to the embedded player, this is useful for sites that have a dark style:
style="border:thin solid #333"
Start the player in High Quality mode:
vq=hd1080
Remove annotations:
iv_load_policy=3
Here's a link which shows all the YouTube Embedded Player Parameters:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters
Remember the first parameter will be preceded by the ? symbol and the following parameters will be preceded with an & symbol.
