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Technical News & Discussion => Windows News & Discussion => Topic started by: .Griff. on Jul 07, 2011, 10:14:36

Title: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: .Griff. on Jul 07, 2011, 10:14:36
There seems to be a widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading for a lot of people. Where the video should be displayed there's a blank black box instead.

It's affecting me and after a quick Google it seems to be affecting a lot of other people as well so this is just a quick heads up to anyone with the same problem who may be concerned it's their PC at fault.
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Simon on Jul 07, 2011, 10:16:07
Thanks Griff.  :thumb:
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 07, 2011, 12:06:07
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4gCY1PQGFxM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Yeah I'm seeing it too. Dunno if this forum allowed embedding, so I shall test it. Just watching some camera/lens reviews and they work while embedded onto websites, but not if you go directly to youtube.

Ah well, that doesn't work :D You might want to get the option for these forums to allow youtube video posts, we've got it on our SMF forums over at a mates site. Seems to work fine on websites I've seen today :)

Hmm, the youtube embed thing for SMF seems to have vanished in our last update of the forum. I wonder why no one has mentioned it :D
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: pctech on Jul 07, 2011, 12:25:38
Google cloud heading down to earth?

Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: trophymick on Jul 07, 2011, 13:54:13
Bizarre problem, it's  affecting Windows 7, but not Linux Mint. :dunno:
Aint windoze great? :whistle:
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 07, 2011, 15:16:34
They're ace for looking through :D
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: pctech on Jul 07, 2011, 18:00:35
XP not affected  ;D
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Glenn on Jul 07, 2011, 18:04:56
Works fine on my Windows 7 laptop too.
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 07, 2011, 18:32:10
It's been working again for a couple of hours at least. I've been watching videos about the shiny things my camera can do ;D
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Simon on Jul 08, 2011, 00:00:15
Quote from: Niall on Jul 07, 2011, 12:06:07
Hmm, the youtube embed thing for SMF seems to have vanished in our last update of the forum. I wonder why no one has mentioned it :D

Never knew we had it!  :dunno:
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Glenn on Jul 08, 2011, 05:47:58
It's not a native SMF feature as far as I'm aware.
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: zappaDPJ on Jul 08, 2011, 06:17:01
It's not Glenn. I did suggest it myself many moons ago but it was felt at the time that it might slowdown page creation.
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 08, 2011, 11:06:32
Quote from: Glenn on Jul 08, 2011, 05:47:58
It's not a native SMF feature as far as I'm aware.

Apparently (I forgot to come back and tell you :D) when the last update came out, or the one before (not sure) they removed the add on that allowed you to embed, and you just past the youtube link and it'll do it for you (or at least does on the other forums I admin)
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: .Griff. on Jul 08, 2011, 11:22:30
For auto embedding on my SMF forum I've always used - http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=977
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 08, 2011, 11:52:26
SMF 2? Is that a beta? I only updated to 1.1.14 yesterday? ;D
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: pctech on Jul 08, 2011, 11:54:52
No Niall, its been production ready for quite a while now I think.

Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Glenn on Jul 08, 2011, 11:55:06
SMF 2.0 went gold in late June.
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 08, 2011, 12:11:35
My, there are some angry people on those forums.
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Simon on Jul 08, 2011, 13:16:43
We have SMF 2.0 on Pals.  It's not without some issues.  To relate to your question though, Niall, Flash is enabled by default, but we turned it off.  ;D
Title: Re: Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading
Post by: Niall on Jul 08, 2011, 13:27:57
There used to be an exploit on SMF forums with flash embedding enabled. I can't remember what it was, but we disabled it on our forums for that reason.