videos not working

[joew771]

Many youtube videos don't work on the site. They work for me, but won't post. As far as I know they aren't country restricted or anything like that. And they work when I post them in other places.

[Moe]

No reason they shouldn't work here.

There is no active checking of video links, so if it doesn't load, your browser or the video site itself is blocking it.

[joew771]

Some of them work and some of them don't. That's what I can't figure out. I'm not blocking them in any way. I'll try to find an example for you. I can usually find a second one that works.

I can't find any at the moment. When I do I'll let you know. About 1/3 of the vids I've tried to post I've had to find an alternate one to post though. But like I said, I'll tell you when I find another one. I don't post vids too often.

[joew771]

I found several vids that didn't work before, but do now. Again, ignore me until I find something again. Still don't know what happened.

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so here a couple more that I found in my latest post.



And




They work ok for me on my comp and ok in the 'post reply', but once I 'preview post' them, they don't work.

[Spud17]

I know why those two in particular don't work - you've entered the incorrect youtube code.

The mybb code for embedding the first vid should look like this:

Code:

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A[/video]

What you wrote was this:

Code:

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0Ahttp://[/video]

Same thing for the second vid, you've added an extra http:// at the end of the youtube URL.

[politux]

Sounds like operator error to me.

[joew771]

Hmmmm....

I was just using the vid poster thingy. Lemme try again.

So I go back to my original post and when I preview the post, the vids work fine. They did then and they do now. I didn't add an https or anything.

I'll try it again now.





That works and also works in the preview.

It was probably my fault, but I swear to you they worked in my preview, but not in the post. They still are working in the preview when I go to look at them, even with the extra http stuff. The earlier ones I mean. I must have pasted the link before the http in the the vid poster thingy, but I swear I didn't. And why would they work in my preview post but not the actual one If I did it wrong? I'm so confoosed. Whatever.

And it's happened over and over, I can't be stupid enough to paste the link before the http thing so many times. I'm not too bright, but not that stupid I don't think. And they always work when I preview my post, but not when I actually post things, so I have to go back and find another vid of the same thing, and then they work.

It's probably my fault, but I can't figure out why.