[Ciwan]

Hi Guys

A friend of mine once said there was a website where you can paste the embed code from youtube and it will give you an alternate embed code that validates.

I have been searching for the site .. but I can not find it anywhere.

I'd greatly appreciate a link.

Thank You.

[Wickham]

It's the embed tag in normal codes for video .swf files in a web page like YouTube uses that doesn't validate.

You can use just an object tag like item 2 here
http://www.wickham43.../flashvideo.php
and this does validate but it won't work unless a computer has Adobe Flash Player already installed. This used to be a problem, but new computers nearly all do have Flash Player pre-installed.

The normal method with an object tag and nested embed tag works on old computers but doesn't validate.

[Ciwan]

Thanks Wickham

So no site ?

also where does the URL of the youtube video go ?

<div style="width: 500px; margin: auto;">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
style="width: 120px; height: 100px; margin: auto;"
id="VideoPlayer" data="yourvideo.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" >
<param name="movie" value="yourvideo.swf" >
<param name="quality" value="high" >
<param name="scale" value="noscale" >
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ababab" >
<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Install Adobe Flash For Richer Experience</a></p>
</object>
</div> 

Thanks

[Gareth Daine]

Use the code below. Replace the data, value, width and height properties with your YouTube URL, width and height.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="YOUR WIDTH" height="YOUR HEIGHT" data="YOUR YOUTUBE URL"><param name="movie" value="YOUR YOUTUBE URL" /></object>

Hope this helps.