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How to leave a video comment or reply Sticky

A topic by leafo created Aug 25, 2016 Views: 7,386 Replies: 16

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You can embed YouTube and Vimeo videos directly into your comments and posts on itch.io. In order to do this, just paste the link of the video into a new line in the text field, then hit enter. The URL will be swapped out with an embed to the video.

This also works for Sketchfab embeds. Just link to a model on Sketchfab and hit enter to replace it with the embed.

If you have any ideas for other integrations post them here!

Donni8 years ago

Anyway to embed dropbox videos ?

leafoAdmin8 years ago

can you show me an example of their embed code?

Donni8 years ago

This is a normal dropbox link :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wy52jbqtxkr5cl/Recording%20%237.mp4?dl=0

This is a embedable dropbox link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wy52jbqtxkr5cl/Recording%20%237.mp4?raw=1

To make it embedable you have to change the id=0 to raw=1, however while most forums have the abilty to embed dropbox links, itch.io does not.

Donni8 years ago

here is a source embed link : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/88cnkfi1zqf3fby/Smiles%20For%20Itch.swf

Mauro Vanetti8 years ago

Hi leafo,

Great feature. Can I edit other people's comments in order to turn their YouTube URLs into embedded videos? I didn't manage to make it work.

Thanks.

leafoAdmin8 years ago

You can't edit other people's comments. One option though is for us to scan through links and automatically convert them.

Mauro Vanetti8 years ago

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I was talking about other people's comments on my game page of course. :-)
Editing other people's comments everywhere would be pretty awesome too but I can see the downside of it. :-D

Mauro Vanetti8 years ago

Oops, I did manage. You just have to paste the URL (not the link) on a new line and then press Enter, which is what triggers the magic. The magic happens in the text editor box itself.
Very nice.

Bad Piggy5 years ago

Can we upload offline videos ? I'm referring to videos which we haven't uploaded to YouTube or any other site.

leafoAdmin5 years ago

I plan to add support for uploading short mp4s with our image upload tool at some point in the future. If you're trying to upload longer high-res videos I recommend still using some third party service though.

Bad Piggy5 years ago

K then.... shall wait for mp4 support.

Thanks for replying :)

unwave4 years ago

Was it already added? I cannot upload mp4 files despite seeing it supported.

leafoAdmin4 years ago

Although it looks like you can upload them, support for mp4s is only available in very limited situations right now. Sorry about the confusion. Hope to make it more generally available in the near future.

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leafoAdmin2 years ago

I recommend just changing your username and deleting any old posts on your account that you don’t want anymore. Also, please try not to post issues in unrelated topics.

the rat gremlin2 years ago

Is it possible to just put in URL ? Because right now I wanted to add a video URL, it automaticaly put the video, and now I cant remove it.

DevRoids206 days ago

Youtube video in comment is not converting to Embed video. The “Insert” button is not being pressed.