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Monday, December 28, 2009

Embedding Playlists from Youtube

I finally discovered how to embed playlists on this blog. I was looking in the wrong spot. Youtube is surprisingly daft on this. It took about an hour of hunting Youtube's help files to find anything about embedding playlists. Finally I found this page:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70458
The information there is completely wrong.

Further searching lead me to this page:
http://www.youtube.com/youtubeonyoursite
Here you will find this brilliant advice: "The easiest way to embed a playlist is to create a custom player."

This is the reason why you have been forced to watch those videos inside a box with an ugly border with no way to fullscreen. I have since figured it out. All is well, and I am going back and replacing the shitty custom players (of which I have had to create a separate instance for each blog post!).

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