7 Inch Cinema » Techy tips http://www.7inch.org.uk/news 7 Inch Cinema - News Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:37:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Youtube search box http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2008/12/youtube-search-box/ http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2008/12/youtube-search-box/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:50:18 +0000 Ian http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/?p=223 We’re not generally in the habit of handing out techy tips on this site, but thought this was useful. Youtube have decided in their wisdom to add a big ugly search box to embedded video. Happily someone has already worked out a way of getting rid of this by adding &showsearch=0 so that your embed text goes from this:

embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HgSRiJjmnYY&hl” type etc…


to this:

embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HgSRiJjmnYY&hl&showsearch=0″ type etc…


And your video reverts from fixed to not-broken:



Oh joy, now we just have to go back through all our old youtube clips and add this code.
With thanks to Troy Schneider.

**Update**: They’ve ditched it already. Hooray.

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