Facebook – Correct Way to Post a YouTube Video

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I seem to remember posting links to YouTube videos and having Facebook show it as an embedded video. Recently, when I tried the same, it displayed the link without embedding the video. Is there a way to have Facebook display YouTube videos as embedded videos?

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You must be doing something wrong, here's the right way to share YouTube videos on Facebook wall, go to that video page on YouTube that you want to share, then click on Share button, you'll see a Facebook icon there, click on that icon, a small pop up window will open, Facebook will ask your login details, if you are already logged in Facebook then you'll see your video embedded in a post, just give a title to your post and then you'll see your video posted on your wall rather than links :)

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This couldn't be any simpler: Just upload the MP3 to a webhost, and then post the link to the MP3 file. if you don't already have it, you can get free webhosting at loads of different places, freehostia and 000webhost being two good examples

Facebook automatically adds an embedded Flash MP3 player if you post a link to an MP3.

Not sure whether it will work with the Android and iOS apps. That depends if your device is Flash-enabled, and I'm pretty sure iOS does not have Flash on it.

Be aware that it is illegal to post copyrighted content that you don't have the rights to.

BTW To answer your other points, YouTube uses an efficient video codec, in that if you have the same image all the way through the video, the amount of data transmitted should not be much more than the size of the MP3 file, as it only transmits the image once, and just keeps that image in the window for the duration of the song.

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From checking the uploader of the video's channel on YouTube, it appears that the video in question has been removed by the uploader.

The relevant error message for this video is as follows:

ERROR: content too short (expected 15287800 bytes and served 1323)

...in other words the expected size of this video is 14.58MB, but only 1323 bytes was served from the server.

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