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cee-dee · ‎24-12-2015

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

cee-dee · ‎04-12-2019

I've just looked back up this page and all your videos are showing OK but everyone else's have gone?

How did you post your videos?

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

cee-dee · ‎04-12-2019

I've posted a thread on the "Forum Issues" board:-

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Forum-Issues-Suggestions-News/The-video-function-has-been-disabled/m...

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

cee-dee · ‎04-12-2019

I see that if you click "video", enter a "valid URL" and then click "preview" a message in Red pops up saying to "post a valid video URL".

What's happened??

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

right-then-petal · ‎04-12-2019

hmm my links working

Petal

cee-dee · ‎04-12-2019

Mine isn't but I see some missing videos have returned.

Post a video and show us?

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

cee-dee · ‎04-12-2019

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Well now, does this show OK? It's not youtube, it's dailymotion.

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

baybizz · ‎04-12-2019

@cee-dee wrote:
I've just looked back up this page and all your videos are showing OK but everyone else's have gone?

How did you post your videos?

Fairytale Of New York ~ The Pogues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

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The bare bones basic routine (on my Windows PC) is to use the Print Screen keyboard key to take a screen image from the YouTube video, or of the eBay video thumbnail (as above), crop and edit as desired in an image editor, save it to the computer, and then upload it via the eBay "Photos" button. Then add the text and the video link below the pic.

cee-dee · ‎04-12-2019

Ah, I see, you've not posted an actual video, it's just a still? The video is on your links?

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

baybizz · ‎04-12-2019

Of course, I mean "...or of the YouTube video thumbnail"... (yay, yay... eBay only gives us five short minutes to edit a post...)

baybizz · ‎04-12-2019

Yes, it's a random image - it could be any image.

> "The video is on your links?

Sorry - not sure what you mean.

The image and the video text link are not automatically related or "linked" in any way - I control which image and which link appears...

Fairytale Of New York ~ The Pogues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

cee-dee · ‎05-12-2019

I meant.... When you click your links, the video then appears.

However, others have been using the GUI. Using the "video" link on the GUI..... a box appears so you can paste the youtube video URL (which you've copied from youtube or wherever) in to it.

Then you click "preview" and when it's working OK you can choose the size and position of your video.

When posted (and after you've clicked "post"), a still of the video appears along with the arrow to click to play the video.

(I posted all that so that those that have never tried it will know what I'm on about).

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

baybizz · ‎05-12-2019

The Midnight Blues ~ Snowy White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-eo_Z8Nddw

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baybizz · ‎05-12-2019

@cee-dee wrote:
I meant.... When you click your links, the video then appears.

However, others have been using the GUI. Using the "video" link on the GUI..... a box appears so you can paste the youtube video URL (which you've copied from youtube or wherever) in to it.

Then you click "preview" and when it's working OK you can choose the size and position of your video.

When posted (and after you've clicked "post"), a still of the video appears along with the arrow to click to play the video.

(I posted all that so that those that have never tried it will know what I'm on about).

Yes. i see. The disadvantage is that you have no control over what image appears, and the whole combined image and link unit seems to be at the mercy of eBay and/or YouTube.

My image above is a manipulation of a "screen grab" image from Petal's Pogues video in #1339 - nothing to do with the Snowy White video. They seemed to go well together. I can do that when the picture and the video link I post are unrelated.

cee-dee · ‎05-12-2019

Is it back up and running?

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

baybizz · ‎06-12-2019

> Is it back up and running?

Looks like it. Also looks as if the board is under new management - Lithium has disappeared from the bottom right hand corner of the page - now Khoros...

The Italian (Let Me Sing) ~ Toto Cutugno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9-ZPO7pNw (translation)

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