Have you ever wondered how to get a You Tube Video to start to play automatically when someone comes to your page ? I have, and I could never understand why that is not an option when you go to You Tube to get a video for your blog.

Well, I decided to do some research on that because I thought that should be such an easy thing to do. You have to actually change the embedded code after you do the copy and paste to your blog. You have to add the following code highlighted in yellow in two places in the HTML of the embedded code:

This is how I changed the embedded code of the video that is playing above:

<object width=”425″ height=”344″>
<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”never”><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HytIvXHpvP0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;&autoplay=1“>
<param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”> <embed allowscriptaccess=”never” src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HytIvXHpvP0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;&autoplay=1” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></object>

deletereply mrwhatzit wrote on Oct 2, ’09, edited on Oct 2, ’09 That’s very useful information. Unfortunately I’d have to watch the video 10 million times to remember what he’s talking about. I was wondering about that myself, actually, but I just don’t have the patience to memorize the whole procedure. It makes me feel like a 4th grader trying to learn algebra. Thanks, though. Perhaps some day when I’ve had more sleep…

deletereply sanssouciblogs wrote on Oct 2, ’09 good to know, thanks!

deletereply mrwhatzit wrote on Oct 3, ’09 yw, and seriously, it’s valuable information.

deletereply starfishred wrote on Oct 3, ’09 great info laurisita thanks

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Oct 3, ’09 Thanks guys…I always wondered how to do this. Now you can too !