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Lately, there has been some confusion on the Scratch forums about posting YouTube videos. This is because of the fact that YouTube videos often contain comments that are not appropriate for Scratch. However, this does not mean that there isn't a way to post a YouTube video without it being removed. You can use sites that embed YouTube videos in; that way the comments are hidden.

Here are the methods. If you have another method, please feel free to tell me about it, and I'll add it to the guide. Also, if you see any problems with spelling and/or grammar please tell me.

1. Quiettube
When you go to the site, you'll see this site's slogan is "YouTube videos with out distractions". All advertisements and comments are removed from the video.

Getting Quiettube to play the YouTube videos is easy; just put

http://quietube.com/v.php/

before the YouTube URL.

So:

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=player_embedded#!]

would turn into:

http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=player_embedded#!

2. YouTube Repeat
This way is my personal favorite. This website's main purpose is to watch YouTube videos on repeat, which it does. But it also removes comments on YouTube videos.

To put a YouTube video on YouTube Repeat, just put "repeat" before the ".com" on the YouTube URL.

So:

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=player_embedded#!

would turn into:

http://www.youtuberepeat.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=player_embedded#!

3. Embed it to your own website
This way is much harder than the others, but it can show readers of your website/blog the video.

On most YouTube videos, there is a link on the side that says "embed". When you click it, it will show a code.

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Copy and paste the code into your website, and link to the page/post in Scratch.

4. YouTube Pop-Up
Sometimes, YouTube videos cannot be embedded, which means that the above methods will not work. But there is an alternative.

Put "_popup" after the "watch" and before the "?" in the link.

So:

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=player_embedded#!

would turn into:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=player_embedded#!

These are the methods I currently know of posting YouTube videos without comments.