Linking to youtube videos

[Lemonectric]

Ok...so let's say I want to link to a youtube video using text.

I should be able to do something like this:

Click here[/url*]

But when I use the URL for a youtube video, it just embeds the video. And even when I try to show an example by placing an asterisk inside the tag, all the post shows is [url=

There has to be a way to simply link to the video page, rather than embed it, right? How would one go about doing this?

[Katsurugi]

Something may have changed. Previously, if you typed in the URL, it would automatically change it to a link using the text as the URL itself. I did this in the OCR Fit thread. However, if I did the same thing again, it would embed the video file. I don't exactly know what changed or not. But I don't see any way of getting around it. I don't exactly know why youtube videos are treated special compared to other links.

[Moseph]

I don't exactly know why youtube videos are treated special compared to other links.

This was a forum feature that djp specifically added. I don't know if there's a way around it.

[friendlyHunter]

So does this mean he can "specifically un-add" it?? =D

[kitty]

I tried tinkering around with the url and it seems the forum looks for the line youtube .com/watch?v= or something of the sort so it can embed it.

EDIT: So I typed that without the space and it made a blank embed window.