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	How to post a video here
	By: Beowolff Date: March 18, 2019, 4:49 am
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	okay... we don't have a fancy YOUTUBE or whatever BBC button
	like a lot of forums... sorry. But posting a vid is entirely
	possible and not that hard.
	Here's how I do it:
	First off youtube is funky...some of their vids are easy to post
	and some not (some won't post anywhere.) Here's an example of
	one that will.
	https://youtu.be/QvYvy3fKcM8
	(okay that link is the SHARED link
	from a youtube video already showing here in the Pilot's
	Den...look at it and how it's different from the PAGE LINK (this
	is the page link--
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvYvy3fKcM8&feature=youtu.be<br
	/>...see how you don't need anything past the QvYvy3fK M8
	numbers????) If you use the page link of this vid it will ONLY
	show up as a link. BUT, if you use it as I've shown you,
	https://youtu.be/QvYvy3fKcM8
	...then highlight it and hit the
	"insert Hyperlink" BBC code above in the post control area it
	WILL put hyperlink brackets around it AND show the vid ...as a
	vid. (hyperlink bracket example... [url][/url] ...putting
	your proper link between those two url brackets should show the
	vid as a vid.)
	If at first you don't get it...re-read this help topic and
	simply try again. Also, remember...SOME videos just won't show
	up no matter what and this happens on ALL forums.
	Good luck and if you experience a LOT of trouble, give me a
	shout.
	ADDED 4/17/2019 Posting pictures here.
	Posting pictures is A-OKAY... but posting those really large
	oversize pics stretches out the browser window for a lot of
	users (myself included.) So, if you could keep the pics to
	around 800x600 which usually displays pretty good on most
	screens. Often, you have to download and reduce those big
	pictures but these days a LOT of hosting sites actually include
	a SIZER program where you upload your pictures too... for
	instance, read below as to what I use.
	I use a website (postimages.org) to post anything bigger than
	800x600 � where I can reduce the GIANT pictures down to 800x600
	which helps with the page loading correctly in 15" screens or
	smaller. Actually it helps with almost any screen size. And
	you can 'usually' (if the correct format) simply take the URL of
	the picture by copy...then past it into the "upload by URL" link
	in this website and it will download, resize, then give you
	links to it that you can post elsewhere.
	This place I'm talking about is this site:
	https://postimages.org/
	You may have a better or more comfortable site that does the
	same thing and that's okay... I'm just telling you what I use to
	reduce the pictures so they will show better on our site. You
	of course may use whatever site you are comfortable with.
	Also...
	when posting a picture... keep in mind that when you click on
	the image button in the posting controls... and it places the
	opening and closing img commands as you see... it is often very
	HARD to get your picture link 'in between' the first img command
	(the opening) and the closing /img (the closing image command.)
	??? ---Sometimes it takes me four or five tries to get my
	image link placed properly between the opening and closing image
	code...lol. But that is the price of becoming an old man that
	is hard of seeing! Ha!
	Perhaps though you are much younger and can see better than this
	old fool!
	Again, if you need help with this or anything here... advise me
	ASAP. S!
	Beo
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