How to render links to youtube as video I'd like to know, how could I render links to video sites like youtube and vimeo as a video, the way Facebook does when a user simply pastes a link.

The other modules or solutions I've found involved embedding videos as a field requiring users to go through a process like the one from Embeded Media Field module does. The closest one is the Video Filter module, but it still more complicated that Facebook.

I'd like this feature over because I'm implementing this for a forum and I'd like to make it as simple and familiar (since everyone uses Facebook) as possible.
I guess the simplest solution would be a normal textfield with a youtube-specific formatter. A formatter is some code that takes the value of a certain field and uses it to generate a chunk of html, displaying the field on your page the way you want. The downside of this solution is that it will add a separate field to your form.

A quick search found two sandboxes with youtube field formatters:


https://drupal.org/sandbox/Hydra/1404188
https://drupal.org/sandbox/double/1795842


Unfortunately I could't find an oficially released, stable module.

If you want complete control over your formatter, here's a tutorial how to create your own: Creating Custom Formatters with the Field API . In the comments, some commenters even say it helped them create a youtube field formatter.

[Update]

I just noticed the Googtube module, it seems to be exactly what you're looking for: like Video Filter module, but parsing regular YouTube URL's as embedded video's.