Hosting videos (embed or HTML)

Some people like to have youtube videos and such on their profile/blog/bulletin posts. I'm writing this for people who are unsure on how to do that but also teach you some other ways and sources on how and where you can upload your video and post them in profile/blog/bulletin posts. Please if you know of any other's leave a comment and I'll update the blog post with credits and link to your name. Let's get started

Youtube (PC only)

Find a video you would like to use.
Click the share button
Click on embed
Then click copy and paste the code where you would like to (note: When pasting it into a blog or bulletin make sure you change the mode from WYSIWYG to HTML before pasting).

Instagram (PC or mobile)

Find a photo/video you would like to use (your own or another Instagram user)
Click on the three dots, top right of the photo (see image below).
Select Embed
Copy code and paste where you would like it.

(please if anyone can confirm if the app is the exact same, I don't have it/use Instagram anymore).

Self hosting (With ShareX)

I'm sure there are other sites, let me know if you use any I'm just using ShareX in this example. The supported video file formats are MP4, WebM and Ogg. Let's start with the HTML code first! You can control the size of the player by changing the values in the first part of the code "Width & Height".

</video>

Now lets get a source URL for your video and code! If you haven't already download and install ShareX.

With ShareX installed, right click on the video file you have on your computer and select "Upload with ShareX".
Once it has uploaded it will play a little sound and a link will appear bottom right corner (if you are quick click on it)
If you miss it, don't fret right click on the system tray icon of ShareX and you can find the link in "recent links" you can either left click to copy the URL or you can right click to open the URL up directly
Your URL should be something like https://puu.sh/IpIkc/02b1470922.mp4 (numbers and such will be different but should start with puu.sh and end in the video format (MP4, WebM or Ogg).
You should have something like this (see example) also remember to put into HTML mode and not WYSIWYG mode.

Example:

Here are some other commands you can use this goes in the video tag up the top after controls. There are more commands but I'll only include two:

autoplay - Starts the video by itself

loop - Loops the video

Any questions/suggestions please leave a comment!

Thank you :)

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Bacon 🥓	Pinned 1637213133 Also note if you are doing iframe (youtube for example) code in bulletin or blog posts, make sure you switch to HTML mode first! Report Comment
leafy!! ★	1704471169 for some reason the self hosting option isnt working :( my code just gets deleted from blogs/bulletins, any reason why? Report Comment
IsacBecker	1698399938 Thank you for your helpful notes. I'll try again and run geometry dash online again to restart the program. Report Comment
lädÿ ëllÿ thør øf müffïns	1637177892 i was JUST about to try and figure this out! THANK YOU SO MUCH! you saved me a lot of time and A LOT of trial and error! Report Comment Oh awesome! Thank you. Glad it is of help :D by Bacon 🥓; 1637193126; Report
Goblin Teatime	1637143138 Very helpful! Thank you! Report Comment No problem, glad to hear :) by Bacon 🥓; 1637147659; Report