It's not the media tag that has changed. It's the API on the youtube side. When you use the media tags provided by our Forum you get a blank line. This is because our Forums are recognizing the request to embed the video - but the youtube API is no longer returning a preview image nor start-play link. And this is because of advertising revenue protection settings. They don't want their videos playing 'framed' within another website (without their ads - or worse someone else's ads).
You kind of explained this before but I didn't realize that it was how YouTube handles it in regards to preview, that makes sense...but I'm not exactly sure why they wouldn't want that ability, it spreads their videos....Hmmmm...
I guess it's something we'll just need to live with. It was nice being able to have the videos embedded in a message, but I guess we'll need to live without it in the future...
When you changed the [/video] end-tag to match the youtube video prefix tag the Forums php coding didn't know what to do with the undefined tag 'bracketing' the URL so it created a link (which is the default handling when rendering a post).
So I guess the best I can do is just create a link.
In the future you are better off just using the "Create link" widget:
Will do, thanks for explaining that...I was on the road most of the weekend visiting my Mom with my kids, and my wife is in Japan right now...you kind of explained this to me last week, I guess I'm getting old...
