Tips for using our YouTube videos

Most people like to click and watch rather than read a lot of text. With this in mind, we are creating YouTube video demonstrations of most of our popular products.

Our YouTube videos can be embedded in your web page, blog, or forum postings. If you are one of our product distributors, you may want to embed our video on your eCommerce site, or on your Auto Dolly and Merrick Originals product pages. The following tips are provided to make this easier for you. Most of the following information should be useful to whoever updates your web pages, as it relates to minor changes in the embedded page code used.

Plain Vanilla Example:

Let's start with a "plain vanilla" embed using as an example our 1967 Lamborghini on our Auto Dolly set. If you visit the YouTube page for that video, you'll see something similar to the image below.

Here is the complete code that you would copy and paste from that embed field:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ndz2pk-NEE0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ndz2pk-NEE0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

More Options

Want to go beyond a "plain vanilla" YouTube embed? Here are some other options for you, if you need them. All of them mean making slight alterations to the embed code you paste into the web page. Questions? Use this site's Contact page and theautodolly.com webmaster will do what he can to assist you.

1. View high quality videos

Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending fmt=18 (for stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or fmt=22 (for stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos

While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed high quality videos you need to append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 and &ap=%2526fmt%3D22 to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box

The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add showsearch=0 to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video

Just append start=30 to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

6. Autoplay an embedded video

Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding autoplay=1 to the url part of the embed code.

7. Loop an embedded video

Append loop=1 to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.

8. Disable Related Videos

Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add rel=0 to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!