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.

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.

To get to the embed code that you will copy and paste, you need to click the "<Embed>" button. After you do, a previously hidden part of the YouTube page is revealed:

As you set your options (with the checkboxes, color schemes, and player sizes) the code in the textbox will dynamically change to reflect your choices. Regarding size, note that if you select a size larger than the original it will appear pixelated (not as good as the original). Choosing a smaller window size, or the original size (which is normally selected FOR you) will look the best. When you are finished making your choices simply copy and paste that code into your web page, product description, or whereever. When your changes are saved or uploaded to your web server, the video should play embedded with the options you selected.

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

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_PGB2qtpL8&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_PGB2qtpL8&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

That's IT!

If you want to go beyond a "plain vanilla" YouTube embed, here are some other options for you.. All of them mean making slight alterations to the embed code that YouTube gives you. Instructions below. 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′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos

The above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url. The success of this depends upon the quality of the original video.

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. 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.

5. 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.

6. Loop an embedded video

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