How to Embed Video On Facebook

You can share videos from video sharing sites, such as YouTube, NetFlix, Vimeo as well as DailyMotion, on your Facebook Timeline. How to Embed Video On Facebook: However, the videos must be embeddable to appear in a player box on Facebook. If a video is not embeddable, it is displayed as a hyperlink, and Facebook customers can not play it on Facebook. They can, however, click the link to open the site and also play the video there. Note that some videos can breach Facebook's Terms of Service, so continuously uploading offending videos can get your account restricted or outlawed.

How to Embed Video On Facebook

Posting Embedded videos

Facebook is able to draw the video from the page if it is embeddable and also display it in your status update, so you simply need the URL of the page that contains the video. To obtain the LINK, open the Web page in your web browser, pick the address in the Address bar and also press "Ctrl-C" to copy it to the clipboard. To post the video on your Facebook Timeline, create a brand-new status update and also press "Ctrl-V" to paste the LINK from the clipboard into the upgrade. Facebook displays the video listed below the update, in addition to its summary. Remove the LINK from the update and after that type or paste the text of the status update. To change the thumbnail of the video, click the right or left arrow buttons. To prevent Facebook from displaying a thumbnail, examine the "No Thumbnail" box. Post the status update on your Timeline by clicking "Post".

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