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YouTube HTML5 on my listing

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YouTube HTML5 on my listing

You can not put an active hyper link or video in your listings.  

 

  However you can put the URL and then customers can copy and paste it to their browser to view the video. 

 

 

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YouTube HTML5 on my listing

Yes you can add a link to a YouTube video.

 

Read this link - eBay member shipscript details how to do this.

 

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Member-To-Member-Support/video/qaq-p/24312051

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@the-watch-works

 

I think we need to explain a little bit here because you may have false expectations based on the YouTube page linked in your post.

 

YouTube converts videos to a variety of formats and uses browser sniffers to determine which format to deliver to your browser. For instance, I have no media players on my computer and no Flash installed. I use my computer in silence. So for some time, I have been video-free and audio-free, which was important considering my Internet connection.

 

For a few years, YouTube used a method where Flash based videos could call upon the Adobe website to stream a temporary driver into the browser, so even though I had no Flash drivers installed, I could usually view YouTube videos when sellers began adding them to listings.

 

Eventually, Firefox began building HTML5 codecs (data compression schemes) into the browser, so now I have begun seeing some videos that are being run by my browser instead of relying on the audio and video codecs on my computer that are not installed.

 

That brings us to the YouTube page that describes which HTML5 codecs are present in which modern HTML5-capable browsers.

 

This is an internal aspect of YouTube delivery and has nothing to do with eBay.

 

eBay, on the other hand, has said that they will support the HTML5 video tag. That tag looks like this and is a way to load an MP4 video or OGG video, which will run with the browser's own codecs that then access system resources to produce the onscreen results.

 

<video width="320" height="240" >
  <source src="http://example.com/movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="http://example.com/movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  <p>Product Video</p>
</video>

 

YouTube can not be delivered in this format because YouTube runs all requests through their browser sniffer to find the best format, and, to my knowledge, MP4 is not one of their delivered formats. My older computer can not run MP4, although it can display an OGG video.

 

In addition to allowing the <video> tag within descriptions, eBay is working toward a method that will allow sellers to continue to display YouTube videos. We don't yet know what that method will be.

 

Until that method is decided, we can continue to use YouTube videos by converting the display format at this site.

http://www.isdntek.com/tagbot/YouTubeConverter.htm

 

ShipScript has been an eBay Community volunteer since 2003, specializing in HTML, CSS, Scripts, Photos, Active Content, Technical Solutions, and online Seller Tools.
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just tried that (03/15/2017) and NO format from that site works on ebay now...
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@bunkyr6qo5 wrote:
just tried that (03/15/2017) and NO format from that site works on ebay now...

That might be the case if using eBay's Quick Lister, which doesn't like anything but vanilla HTML and CSS. eBay's Advanced editor is more capable.

 

However, yet another coding scheme has been added to the tool and it should work in the HTML tab of eBay's Quick Listing and should continue to work when Active Content is banned.

http://www.isdntek.com/tagbot/YouTubeConverter.htm

 

ShipScript has been an eBay Community volunteer since 2003, specializing in HTML, CSS, Scripts, Photos, Active Content, Technical Solutions, and online Seller Tools.
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