Cannot play "You Tube" videos..!

by Menos June 27th 2013, 6:42 pm

Strange thing that occurred today...
I embed the videos of You tube and I get an empty sized screen... in the size the video should of been..
Any ideas? Shit

edit: Only happens on embedded videos!

by **SLGray** June 27th 2013, 7:37 pm

How are you adding them to your post? They are working fine on my forum when I use the Youtube button on the editor.

by Menos June 27th 2013, 7:51 pm

They were also playing fine on my forum until today...
I was just copying the embed code and pasting it in the forum.. that simple..
But today it just shows a box in the size of the embedded video and nothing else..
The You tube editor works just fine... but I want bigger resolution videos.
That's why I'm using the embed code of You tube.

by **SLGray** June 27th 2013, 7:58 pm

After sending the video with the Youtube button, you can edit the post and change the size.

by Menos June 27th 2013, 8:00 pm

Yes, but this is not a way to solve the problem..
Half of my members don't know these tricks... so that's not an option... sorry.

by bob77707 June 27th 2013, 11:44 pm

I noticed this the other day. It's actually something wrong with the generated youtube embed code that you get from the youtube website:

Code:: <iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

If you look closely there is no "http:" in the source url. If you add it, it works fine. If you put the link in through the button on the editor toolbar, that works as well.

by Menos June 29th 2013, 4:17 pm

It worked perfectly before!
So what to do now??
Any CSS code to fix this??

by **SLGray** June 29th 2013, 6:56 pm

This is not a problem with Forumotion, but with Youtube. The embedded code is dropping the http part in the code. You need to manually add it to the code when you post it on your forum.

by Menos June 30th 2013, 8:26 am

Understood... Thank you for your time and effort. Hello

by AdminOnyx June 30th 2013, 8:43 pm

bob77707 wrote:I noticed this the other day. It's actually something wrong with the generated youtube embed code that you get from the youtube website:

Code:
<iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

If you look closely there is no "http:" in the source url. If you add it, it works fine. If you put the link in through the button on the editor toolbar, that works as well.

Thank you Bob, the little error you spotted is the fix! :wouhou: