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K.K. Smith
K.K. Smith

Reputation: 992

Can someone explain the difference between these two Youtube URLs?

Im building a site which opens Youtube videos onsite using Shadowbox.

I have found out that linking to a video this way ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

..doesn't work (Shadowbox opens, video doesnt play). But linking this way...

http://www.youtube.com/v/wDZFf0pm0SE

.. does.

Can someone explain to me what is going on here?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3128

Answers (1)

ionFish
ionFish

Reputation: 1024

The /v/ link is a direct link to the video, which is used for embedding it. You use it like this:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wDZFf0pm0SE&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="800" height="600"></embed>

However, due to licensing restrictions some videos will fail to play in the /v/ format. The &autoplay=1 part just tells it to start the video on page-load. (Remove it to not do that). The normal link is used to watch the video from Youtube itself.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 5

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