Newbie question regarding embedding YouTube Video's

I could not, for the life of me figure out how to just add the embedded code copied from Youtube into the body or comment section without having to check the "Full html" text input section (which is only available to admins - not regular members).

If you don't want to use FULL HTML then you have to add the tags used in the youtube embed code to the text format being used by users in drupal.

the module that dman pointed out, and if I'm understanding correctly, requires you to edit the text format that users are using and include the filter provided by the emfield.module. If you are using an editor of some sort this may or may not require some other fine tuning. I'd disable the editor while getting the embed code working then reenable the editor to make it easier to understand where the problem is occuring.

That siad, you don't need BOTH approaches. The better approach is with a filter.

First, great issue report! That description really does help ensure we are on the same page. I wish more folk were so detailed when it comes to stuff like this.

Second, what you did was not *wrong*, and is all pretty sensible in itself.
But sorry, it's not quite what I was suggesting. I didn't give enough detail from here.

Also, it looks like the current release of emfield D7 is crippled in this respect. This makes me unhappy.
However, with one line change I was able to bring the old behavior back!

# download and enable emfield (and the numerous extras it wants, eg 'media')
# also get http://drupal.org/project/media_youtube
# edit the input format at /admin/config/content/formats/ and enable "Converts Media tags to Markup"
... It is here that there should have been another option "Convert Media URLs into embed code" but that's gone missing.
# Get that process up pretty high in the list of filters. but probably AFTER the "Limit allowed HTML tags"
# here is the annoyance. About now, the system should be scanning your content and replacing simple youtube-like URLs with the required embed code. Today, that is disabled in code. And no longer available like it used to be in media_filter_info(). However, all the old guts of it are still there! I put it back for now.

In the file media/includes/media.filter.inc
there is a chunk like this

/**
 * Filter callback for media markup filter.
 *
 * @TODO check for security probably pass text through filter_xss
 * @return unknown_type
 */
function media_filter($text) {
  $text = ' ' . $text . ' ';
  $text = preg_replace_callback("/\[\[.*?]]/s", 'media_token_to_markup', $text);

  return $text;
}

/**
 *  Filter callback for media url filter.
 *  @TODO: There are currently problems with this. For instance, if a file is
 *  to be loaded from a remote location here, it will be recreated multiple
 *  times, each time this filter is called. If we want to continue supporting
 *  this feature, we would need to probably create a new stream or other way
 *  to lookup a remote file w/ its local version. Probably best as a contributed
 *  module because of this difficulty. ~ aaron.
 */
function media_url_filter($text, $filter) {
  $text = ' ' . $text . ' ';

  // Need to attach the variables to the callback after the regex.
  $callback = _media_url_curry('_media_url_parse_full_links', 1);

  // Match absolute URLs.
  $text = preg_replace_callback("`(<p>|<li>|<br\s*/?>|[ \n\r\t\(])((http://|https://)([a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+*~#?&=.,/;-]*[a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+*~#&=/;-]))([.,?!]*?)(?=(</p>|</li>|<br\s*/?>|[ \n\r\t\)]))`i", $callback, $text);

  return $text;
}

I'm just going to ignore whatever it is worried about (there's probably an issue in the queue, but whatever)

Insert the following into the first function.

  $text = media_url_filter($text, NULL);

and we get

/**
 * Filter callback for media markup filter.
 *
 * @TODO check for security probably pass text through filter_xss
 * @return unknown_type
 */
function media_filter($text) {
  $text = ' ' . $text . ' ';
  $text = preg_replace_callback("/\[\[.*?]]/s", 'media_token_to_markup', $text);

  // Put URL filter back! ~dman
  $text = media_url_filter($text, NULL);

  return $text;
}

So, for now, things work again for me.

I can
Create a page.
Paste an URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SBSbsdiYg&feature=g-all-esi&context=G24...
straight into the textarea as-is.
And when viewing, I see the whole video embedded in the page.

I apologize, I did not know this feature had been crippled in D7. The project page still described the original behavior.
The hack/patch I describe here doesn't address whatever they thought was broken. but it DOES do what I thought it was supposed to!