I think that embedding is disabled in Forums. If you have the filter turned on to automatically embed YouTube videos you can embed a link to the video (not the embed code) and it should automatically embed it for you. This will only work with YouTube though. It's been awhile since I messed with that.
Teaching with Moodle
Embedding Video in Site News Post
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