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Arqade has the ability to embed YouTube clips within a post as long as the YouTube video appears on a line by itself (example).

Searching about, I found 162 posts that reference "*.youtube.com" and another 21 posts that reference YouTube's URL shortener, youtu.be.

Would it be possible to get this embedding functionality here? It shouldn't be any more disruptive than post imagery, which is pretty well accepted here.

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    It is referenced often enough, but specific examples of posts that would benefit heavily from embedding would help here.
    – Shog9
    Commented Sep 10, 2012 at 20:03
  • @Shog9 here you go. Any post that links to you YouTube would benefit from YouTube embedding, just like on Arqade.
    – user366
    Commented Sep 11, 2012 at 0:58
  • No, I don't think so. Picking one off the top of that list, this question is better off without embedding - a big honkin' video in the middle of that question, for auxiliary information, is just distracting. More examples of posts that would be worse off for embedding: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5483, scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7019, scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20513
    – Shog9
    Commented Sep 11, 2012 at 15:32
  • @Shog9 That's your opinion, sure: obviously I disagree. I don't understand what the problem is; Arqade wasn't subject to your guessing what posts you would like to have YouTube embedding on: they just got it.
    – user366
    Commented Sep 11, 2012 at 16:08
  • This is really just a sanity-check: there are thousands of links to YouTube on SO, hundreds on sites like AskUbuntu and Skeptics; there are all sorts of situations where linking is preferable to embedding. So why enable embedding? You're saying it isn't any more disruptive than static images, but many - perhaps most - of these examples don't have any of those either, so the real comparison isn't to embedded images but to text.
    – Shog9
    Commented Sep 11, 2012 at 16:54
  • @Shog9: I've provided at least one situation where it would be useful, and 3 people agree. What's needed for a consensus on it?
    – Jeff
    Commented Jan 19, 2013 at 2:59

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My belief is that YouTube embedding would improve my answer here, as the linked video is a short, concise description of exactly what I said in my response, and my answer simply expands upon it.

The 3-minute video is a more potent response than simply reading about the brief scene - showing, rather than telling, but does not fully encompass my answer.

I'm sure there's situations where an embedded video is NOT appropriate, but in this case I believe it would be.

It's also easy to see how short YouTube clips of source material can be useful to settle disagreements about what happens in particular scenes.

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  • +1, as I can recall a Terminator one that would've also certainly helped resolve a comment chain, and I definitely would've liked it in one or two past Star Trek ones...
    – Izkata
    Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 3:52
  • A new challenger appears....
    – user1027
    Commented Jan 19, 2013 at 3:17
  • @Keen It's restored to my latest edit now, but it looks like it was used to test YouTube embedding at one point. Here's hoping it worked as well as I expected it would!
    – Jeff
    Commented Jan 19, 2013 at 14:36
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    Thanks - should be enabled now.
    – Shog9
    Commented Jan 22, 2013 at 23:41
  • In case people are embedding 1min+ clips just to show a few seconds in the middle of it, one can add #t=*m*s to the end of the URL they're linking/embedding to jump to a specific point, ie: h-t-t-p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0#t=4m45s to jump to the 4-minute, 45-second mark of that specific clip.
    – Solemnity
    Commented Mar 7, 2013 at 8:29

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