New feature: YouTube videos for running report entries
As I mentioned in the previous post, about pimping your user profile, we’ve improved the way Autopendium handles videos. Well now, as a by-product of that, you can now add a Youtube video to a running report entry.
As a example, my Volvo Amazon, which is undergoing a bare metal restoration, has finally had its engine finished with the arrival of some much needed rocker arms, and just over a week ago, we fired it up for the first time in, oh, nine months or so.
I thought this warranted videoing, not because it will be of massive interest to everyone else (although there’s a certain pleasure in watching Mark at Romance of Rust get a mouthful of fuel), but because it’s all part of the Amazon’s history, and a few years down the line I’ll be glad I did it.
To add a YouTube video to a new (or existing) running report entry, first put it on YouTube. Then click on “add running report entry” on your vehicle’s home page, just as you normally would. Then enter the id of the YouTube video in the bit that says Youtube video (or the URL of the video), write the entry, adding any photos you want while you’re at it, and it’s done:
The video will show up as normal on the entry, but with the word video superimposed to let people know it’s a, er, video:
In fact, MudRide, who’s posting his countdown to the Shasta Snow Trip (a mad trip to the snow for VW Type 2 buses) has already added a video for his latest post, and if you fancy watching of a fully loaded VW van tearing around in the mud and snow (and you know you do), check it out.
