# Embedding A Video From YouTube With Vista?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342 "2009-02-11T07:15:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/1 "2009-02-11T07:15:14Z")

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I **HATE** this OS! I can’t find the EDIT function so save my LIFE!!!

Can anyone take me through it step by step, please?

Thanks

Q

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/2 "2009-02-11T08:05:22Z")

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You want to embed the video where? 😕

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/3 "2009-02-11T08:18:28Z")

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To my blog, but the YouTube tutorial tells me to highlight the “embed” and then go to “EDIT”. Only I cannot FIND “Edit” on Vista.

Thanks!

Quasi

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**Author:** ![Apex\_Rogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Apex\_Rogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apex_Rogers)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/4 "2009-02-11T08:43:06Z")

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> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> To my blog, but the YouTube tutorial tells me to highlight the “embed” and then go to “EDIT”. Only I cannot FIND “Edit” on Vista.
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> Thanks!
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> Quasi

Vista’s got nothing to do with this, so forget that aspect of it. Could you link to the tutorial that you’re talking about? I suspect the “Edit” refers to the editing process which you use to update your blog. If this is the case, embedding the Youtube clip might be as easy as pasting the embed code into your blog in the same place you write your updates.

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/5 "2009-02-11T09:12:11Z")

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I checked one of my uploaded videos on Youtube. When you go to Edit there’s an option under Embedding to switch it on or off. It is on by default.

Then, when you view the video normally, eg this one: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmSKDkIIQDU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmSKDkIIQDU) there’s the embed code right below the description, in this case it is

```auto

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GmSKDkIIQDU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GmSKDkIIQDU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

```

This is the code you’ll have to copy and paste in your blog.

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**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/6 "2009-02-11T11:52:01Z")

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> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> To my blog, but the YouTube tutorial tells me to highlight the “embed” and then go to “EDIT”. Only I cannot FIND “Edit” on Vista.

It’s talking about the “edit” menu in your browser. Presumably the next step is to select “copy” from under “edit”, right? You can also do this by right-clicking on the selected text and choosing “copy”.

ETA: and the problem isn’t the OS, it’s the poor instructions you’re reading.

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-video-from-youtube-with-vista/485342/7 "2009-02-11T21:10:43Z")

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Gotcha! Thank you!

Q