WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Video embeds suddenly stopped working http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Video embeds suddenly stopped working en Sat, 18 May 2013 23:15:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 tonethefone on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-665960 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:09:28 +0000 tonethefone 665960@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is bizarre. I've previously posted embedded YouTube videos. All I had to do was leave the url on a single line. Those videos still play. Yet when I try the same trick it won't work for new posts. I think I can spot the problem because if I go to settings. I cannot see any options for Media so I can't check auto-embed!

]]> christianlouw on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648845 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:48:01 +0000 christianlouw 648845@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ News

After my Adobe Flash Update to version 10.3.181.34 yesterday, some embedded videos on the web wouldn't work for me as a default user. When I tried as administrator, there were no problems. But I won't surf as an admin!

My cure for now was to restore my system 2 days backwards. Now I'm waiting for Adobe or Microsoft to adress the bug and post a cure. In the meantime, I'll try hard to keep my Adobe Flash ActiveX version 10.3.181.26 and my Plug-in version 10.2.153.1

They might be outdated, but they work fine on my Win7-IE9
But the bug seems to be even older:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/750760

]]> christianlouw on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648541 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:55:57 +0000 christianlouw 648541@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hmm... Looks like I'm the one who has to do something :-)

The problem with some embedded videos belongs to my own browser settings.
If I log in as admin on my PC, all embeddings look fine on the web.
Something or someone obviously changed my default-user-browser-settings.
Maybe I'm the one to blame :-) Seems like I've got some work to do...

Sorry for the disturbance, and thanks for the replies.

]]> raincoaster on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648531 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:38:30 +0000 raincoaster 648531@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just use the shortcode as described above, and make sure it uses the OLD style URL for the video, the one in the browser bar, not the new one YouTube gives you in the box below the video.

]]> macmanx on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648517 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:15:20 +0000 macmanx 648517@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't see any problems on our end.

Visit Settings -> Media in your blog's Dashboard and make sure that "Enable auto-embeds" is checked.

]]> airodyssey on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648384 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:19:29 +0000 airodyssey 648384@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @christianlouw: The YouTube videos on the support document work perfectly for me. Have you tried any of the tips here?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/

]]> christianlouw on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648376 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:50:31 +0000 christianlouw 648376@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Here is a picture of the not-working-youtube-embed:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29754280/embed.JPG
taken from here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

]]> christianlouw on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648371 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:36:50 +0000 christianlouw 648371@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Looks like WP's own video embeds doesn't work properly right now:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/
Maybe someone will do something to correct it :-)

]]> timethief on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648139 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:19:26 +0000 timethief 648139@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I am self hosted

Have you tried using the shortcode? That's what jongoldstein177did

Example:
Paste the video URL on a line by itself in your post/page editor. Then create a shortcode using the format below. Be sure to replace the URL listed here with the URL of your video.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A]

]]> laurie200 on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648138 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:17:13 +0000 laurie200 648138@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Jon,
I'm not even sure what auto embed means?
Should I add the [youtube=
in front of the embed code from youtube?

thanks for your help!

PS. i went in and checked my older posts and the videos looked fine, so my problem seems to be with anything new.

]]> laurie200 on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648137 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:11:57 +0000 laurie200 648137@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, I am so grateful I found this forum post. I have spent hours the last two days trying to embed a youtube video in my blog. I'm not an HTML hotshot, I can barely get by and I have hired someone occaisonally just to make things work, so I'm not sure I understand. Is there a real work around and cansomeone walk me through how to go about it?
FYI I am self hosted, using twenty ten theme with a firefox browser.

in the past it was so easy, I just popped the video in and hit save draft and it was good to go. For the last two days I've tried adding it in the URL, I've tried embedding it a thousand different way.

]]> timethief on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648117 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:21:53 +0000 timethief 648117@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @jongoldstein177
Oh dear ... how annoying. I'm so sorry this happened to you but alsoglad to hear that you have resolved it. I hope you have a great weekend.

]]> thejdg on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-648095 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:44:27 +0000 thejdg 648095@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have the "auto-embed" featured enabled on WordPress.com. I suspect that the new "oEmbed" developer feature they just unveiled had something to do with breaking the auto-embed system. So... I went through ALL 75 posts I have and encapsulated every youtube link with the shortcode so now they look like this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/heresarandomvideo]

They work with the shortcode. So, lesson is--don't rely on auto-embed!! Plus, if you need to transfer your site to wordpress.org one day, then you know the shortcode will work! So, just another reason to simply add the [youtube= ...] tags.

Still annoyed, though...

]]> joyousthirst on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647899 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:31:22 +0000 joyousthirst 647899@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ will the links simply start working? or will we have to change the links somehow?

]]> lyrikh on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647742 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:15:17 +0000 lyrikh 647742@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, are videos working for everyone again? I still can't embed videos from youtube. I can post links but once I past in the imbed code and hit publish the whole thing disappears.

]]> universalgeni on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647690 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:03:16 +0000 universalgeni 647690@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have all videos up again...

]]> awilddog on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647614 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:13:49 +0000 awilddog 647614@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Having the same issue with a friends blog.

]]> wordpainters on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647447 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:07:41 +0000 wordpainters 647447@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's not just YouTube for me. It's all video embeds and links - including sites with shortcodes. Frustrating.

]]> thejdg on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647407 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:27:24 +0000 thejdg 647407@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just spent an hour putting in shortcodes: [youtube=....]
My site wasn't working and didn't want to wait until who knows when...

]]> disembedded on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647403 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:09:24 +0000 disembedded 647403@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ All of mine are working fine right now, including YouTube.

By the way, I hope people remember that Google video is shutting down pretty soon. That means that wherever you have a Google video in your blog, nothing will be there.

]]> thejdg on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647335 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:00:13 +0000 thejdg 647335@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Grr...must mean nobody's vid embeds on wordpress.com are working. My friend discovered they weren't working 5 hours ago--has youtube been down that long?

]]> universalgeni on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647324 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:51:14 +0000 universalgeni 647324@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ YouTube got themselves a new player. Re-designed. Could be it? Besides: YouTube is down right now. Can't get in...

]]> thejdg on "Video embeds suddenly stopped working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-embeds-suddenly-stopped-working#post-647307 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:35:21 +0000 thejdg 647307@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Vid embeds had been working just fine since launch last week. Today, suddenly, just a link shows up in the posts.

Anyone have this or know what's going on?!

Thanks

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