[Only Topic] YouTube videos in Internet Explorer & Chrome

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Embedded YouTube videos are not showing in Internet Explorer. There's just a narrow solid vertical black box where the video should be. They appear and play OK in Firefox though. All my members have reported the same problem, and I can see the problem too. Any ideas?

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I just posted over in the Redirection thread about this. I am thinking that some attempt at a fix is affecting certain combinations of devices and only at Forumotion forums. Because the users have no trouble elsewhere on the Internet. It happened suddenly to several users. Not everyone. And at least one of our users is running Firefox that has this problem.

Same vertical black bars are happening on my forum for YT embeds. I guess Google officially killed Flash.

should move to HTML5 from now, Adobe will kill flash player in future .....

Syndicate wrote:Came in to say I am having the same issue on our forum. Works fine on firefox but not on Chrome.

There is a way around it. I found a JS which coverts youtube links into auto-embed.

In the topics only

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jQuery(function(){
 
  var ancho = "560";
  var alto = "315";
 
  jQuery('.postbody a[href*="youtube.com/watch"]').each(function(){
      var ytid = jQuery(this).attr('href').split("v=")[1].split("&")[0];                             
      jQuery(this).html("<iframe width="+ancho+" height="+alto+" src=https://www.youtube.com/embed/"+ytid+" frameborder=0 allowfullscreen></iframe><br>");
  });
});

So if you post just the youtube link like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxuU0g Then that code will auto-embed it and so far it works fine.

But it's just a temp solution till the old way gets fixed.

Bringing this forward to the next page. This worked perfectly for our forum.

BucolicBuffalo wrote:I just posted over in the Redirection thread about this. I am thinking that some attempt at a fix is affecting certain combinations of devices and only at Forumotion forums. Because the users have no trouble elsewhere on the Internet. It happened suddenly to several users. Not everyone. And at least one of our users is running Firefox that has this problem.

says to him that ,upgrade to the latest version FF

Vladimir79 wrote:Same vertical black bars are happening on my forum for YT embeds. I guess Google officially killed Flash.

Youtube is written almost all in html5 nowadays and even able to play on mobile devices. Chrome not having a flash player would not effect youtube playback.

-Brandon

No one now can not see the you tube clip.
Are you working on it?

Pariz wrote:No one now can not see the you tube clip.
Are you working on it?

If they don't they are going to lose most of their traffic. A forum without embedded YT isn't worth 2 cents.

Guardian-Angel wrote:I'm sorry, it does work. I was previewing it first which didn't show the embedded youtube.

Post the link, hit send without previewing and it works.

TY.

Hello dear!

You can test with this tutorial of PT community? http://ajuda.forumeiros.com/t56744-topic The Portuguese say that work.

you only need post the link of video of Youtube in the topic, and... Auto-Embed!

See you.

I also encountered similar problems in my forum. Please fix it.
Forum's Link: http://www.forumgiaitri.net/forum
Browser(s) Used: Google Chrome
Device(s) Used: Laptop

i have the same problem with Youtube on my forum
Forum: www.motocross.forumczech.com
Browser: Google Chrome
Device: PC,tablet,mobile
thx for fixing this problem without displaying video is not valuable forum

I am sure they are working on it. Or i hope so anyways

Same problem with You tube here.http://www.wigan-rejects.com/

Browsers Chrome, and Edge.

Works fine on Firefox though

Thank you Syndicate for the temporary fix it works.

I am having the same problems with my forum. Only firefox is displaying youtube embeds properly. Chrome is just showing a black box 1/4th the size of a video frame.

Firefox , Safari work fine

Chrome/IE/Opera do not work

Time to eliminate flash from your forum

Forum's Link:http://ex-iskon.forumcroatian.com/
Browser(s) Used: Google Chrome
Device(s) Used: Laptop

What is the status of this problem, are all Youtube videos down permanently in these forums? People on the forums are becoming increasingly frustrated and many may end up leaving due to this problem.

I have read that the fix is the change the BBCode for the Youtube embedding, but I don't see anywhere a forum admin can do this. Does this have to be done by Forumotion support staff?

SB wrote:What is the status of this problem, are all Youtube videos down permanently in these forums? People on the forums are becoming increasingly frustrated and many may end up leaving due to this problem.

I have read that the fix is the change the BBCode for the Youtube embedding, but I don't see anywhere a forum admin can do this. Does this have to be done by Forumotion support staff?

it happens to all forums, not just Forummotion ... if you use Chrome/IE/Opera ...

Hello,

As it is holiday in France (where our main office is) and we just got off the weekend and thus our main office is closed. We do not have any update on this issue and we most likely will not until atleast tommorow morning (French time) when the main office re opens.

We apologize for the inconvience and delay in this getting fixed, the timing of the issue just so happened to be bad, when there would be a 3 day weekend for the office. When the office re opens tommorow, I am sure we will hear something from our pro admin on this. In the meantime we continue to ask for your patience.

-Brandon and the Forumotion team

Thanks Brandon. Hope we will be back to normal soon

Hello everyone,

I have an update for you. Our pro admin has informed us the problem has been fixed and the issue should now be resolved. May you all please confirm this for us?

-Brandon and the Forumotion Team

Great! The problem has been fixed.
Now YouTube has run on HTML5 rather than Flash

Thanks Brandon and the Forumotion Team <3

Thank You very much for converting

Great! Fixed for us as well. Thanks to all that corrected the problem as quickly as possible.

Hey guys,

If no else is having anymore issues with this, then is it safe to say this issue is officially solved? If so, I will go ahead and mark it solved and then archive it.

-Brandon

brandon_g wrote:Hello everyone,

I have an update for you. Our pro admin has informed us the problem has been fixed and the issue should now be resolved. May you all please confirm this for us?

-Brandon and the Forumotion Team

Yes, it is fixed! Thank you very much!

Looking back through old threads on my forum it looks like embedding links made after May 2014 are now back to normal. But the videos embedded earlier than that are still just shown a narrow black box.

brandon_g wrote:Hello everyone,

I have an update for you. Our pro admin has informed us the problem has been fixed and the issue should now be resolved. May you all please confirm this for us?

-Brandon and the Forumotion Team

Its working!

Thanks for getting it done as soon as you could, Forumotion!

If you are still having an issue, clear your browser's cache and history.

Yea it's been fixed. Thanks for the quick resolution.

Can I ask what the fix was?