flvplayer with YouTube video stops working

Same thing for me.
No more info at this time

Me too, not working for me either. I use a slightly older JW player because I've modified it a bit and I don't feel like upgrading also because the newer version requires that rss feeds validate 100% - which is a bit impossible for me for my purposes.

I hope whatever update they make they offer a solution for the older models like 3.19.

Looks like it's broken for all versions.

I think the problem is at the YouTube end.

I hope it's just a temporary thing.

it's happen to my site too

same problem

I have the same problem. It seems to be something that occured today, as all the above posts are dated Jan 15. Any ideas on this?

same here with 3.16. I checked the youtube developer api blog there is no announcement of an upgrade. the chromeless player as such is still working (http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_example_1.html) which is slightly worrying....

Same same.

me too.

Même problème depuis aujourd'hui
Same problem since Jan 15 2009 ...

do anybody knows if someone in longtail is working on this issue?
what is the cause?

Don't working here.

I posted the issue at the youtube developer forum as have others but no reaction yet

its not working for me either, it was working fine all this time, i am using 3.6 with youtube playlist..........i can see only the youtube logo, but none of the videos play at all.

its the same here in the wizard too.........so youtube changed their settings and it conflicts with the JW player ?

Oh god I've been looking for a solution all day...thinking I had a problem on my side.... I feel better now I know the problem is general... in my site all the video from youtube don't load...

It happened to my site too. All video playlist wont play. It only showed a youtube logo with black color background.

Same here! Using 4.2 (4.3 has some issues with rendering the playlist correctly)

Hello Guys,

We have acknowledged the problem. We are now trying to figure out if the issue is with YouTube or with the player.

Best Regards,

Darjan

might I add that the same happens with 4.3 as well (meaning it's not working).

Here as well

I too have the same issue. The videos stopped playing and the chrome player is showing at a reduced size in my video player screen...The videofix.php is not working either..

i am glad you guys are working on it, my whole site doesnt work since its totally based on youtube playlists using JW player ........we are counting on you guys to fix it if possible.

and somebody has a solution?

Same here. Using 4.2

It must be YouTube's issue not the JWplayer

Well I have a short time fix that I think I may integrate for the time being, I'm hoping it's not going to kill my server but bleh so be it.

Also I hope JW give support for older JW players, I have a license and I choose to use the older one - and I hope they'll stand by it and upgrade the older version as well. Ideally I'm hoping it doesn't come to that because I really don't feel like re-editing another player.

Hi all - Pablo from LongTail here.

I have a temporary solution to this problem. It seems like the address YouTube uses to host the chromeless player has changed (although the old URL was still available, though broken).

To fix this problem, you'll need to download the player source and edit the "yt.as" file. For version 4.3 of the player, you'll need to edit line 10:

http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/browser/tags/mediaplayer-4.3/yt.as#L10

Replace line 10 with:

var ytLocation:String = "http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer";

Save yt.as, then, open yt.fla in Flash CS3 and recompile it. Now copy yt.swf to your player location, and this should solve the problem. We should have a permanent fix in place soon.

Hola Pablo,

Thanks for helping us. Could someone post the file yt.swf already patched?

M.

Yes me too please Pablo,

I also would like the yt.swf already patched

Brian

The updated yt.swf can be downloaded here:

http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/export/134/trunk/as3/yt.swf

Muchas Gracias Pablo!!

great support!!

Thanks Pablo you are great

No way...

I uploaded the file you post on the wordtube folder in plugin directory of my wordpress blog...but still doesn't load youtube videos....

Should I do anything more?

M.

@Martoccia -

Could you provide a link to your wordpress blog? The yt.swf I provided will work for the 4.3 player, but I haven't tested with other versions.

Martoccia, try to update last version flvplayer, i have the same problem and i updated to the last version and then copy the new yt.swf

get luck

ok the same that Pablos say but he is faster than my writting jejeje

Thanks for all Pablo S

With older versions the yt.swf doesn't work but with the 4.3 all perfectly.

Remember that you need delete Offline cached files on IE and FF.

Best regards,

Sawgi.com

Here is a sample I put on my blog http://www.sportbrain.it/video

I have the lastest version.

Thank you

M.

Ok Ok I'm sorry it was my fault now...

Everything works great!!

Thank you Pablo and Javier!!

bien echo!

M.

@Martoccia -

It looks like your site is now working. As Sawgi said, you'll need to delete your cache in FireFox and your offline files in IE to see the changes.

What do we do if we are using version 1.60 ?

I just re-uploaded the lastest version of the player and everything turned OK....

I just need to understand how to have a play list without scroll bar but mooving on mouseover up and down... but naybe is not your field of competence...

This plugin is simply wonderfull!

M.

ok, i got it! thanks a lot!

Well, the workaround works, but the downfall is that those of us who had altered the yt.as file in order for it to play high quality video lose this capability. Any fix for that? The code used to be:

var ytLocation:String = "http://gdata.youtube.com/apiplayer/cl.swf?key=AI39si5vap3DRPYttWUdJutb5aeUHz7-uPnwWMt4X9QgzwBQqSOl5r6Tzd0Su3MPJx_9t8LR5zi-bw5ztLcxIOh-Auj-fiiYEw&ap=%2526fmt%3D18";

Note &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 at the end.

This seems to work:

http://youtube.com/swf/cl.swf?eurl=&sk=uYXUTa3OeQsKIgG5bklKNpbGwNhJvg8ZC

Then put the following at the end of it:

&ap=%2526fmt%3D18

Note: Only works with 4.3

Just for clarification purposes, the full code for line 10 of yt.as is.

For high quality.

For normal play:

God bless.

It resolved itself..maybe google changed something

Yes, solved.

resolved for us too with no changes on JW player... maybe YT has solved the problem.

Thanks for your support!

yea they resolved it, Google fixed it on YouTube's end it had to do with a weird redirection / change on YouTubes side. It's fixed - this is resolved.

My JW player youtube playlists stopped working on or about Jan. 15. I tried updating files to 4.3 files, then to the yt.swt file at http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/export/134/trunk/as3/ . Yet ... no luck. I had been using the following code embed code with success.

<embed name="player1" id="player1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="600" height="692" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" src="player.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="file=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/FF959537205B09BE&skin=/skins/traganja.swf&fullscreen=true&controlbar=bottom&playlist=bottom&playlistsize=202&repeat=always"></embed>

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, BeeDance (licensed)

same with me!

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I'm not sure if this thread is still active but for the sake of others stumbling upon this thread facing the same issue, I think I've closed the net on why wordTube is failing to upload with the error "Unable to change permissions for file...".

After a media file upload it tries to chmod the uploads folder to a permission it likes, namely 0666. After it's done this, it faces problem writing to the uploads. (Talk about shooting yourself in the foot).

I'm using Wordpress v2.6.3 and (I believe) v.1.6 of WordTube. You'll find the following bit of code in <plugins>/wordtube/admin/functions.php.
`@chmod ($upload_path_video, 0666) or die ('<div class="updated"><p>'.__('Unable to change permissions for file ', 'wpTube').$upload_path_video.'!</p></div>');`

Lines change and don't make good pointers, so I'll refrain from giving you an exact line number. (In my functions.php, it's around line 138. Do a string search. You'll find it).

Now, why it needs to do this is beyond me. Why not rely on Wordpress' own permissions management?

The options facing you I think are two-fold.
<ol>
<li>To use more relaxed file permissions chmod i.e. NOT 0666 but 0707 instead
Example
@chmod ($upload_path_video, 0707) or die ('<div class="updated"><p>'.__('Unable to change permissions for file ', 'wpTube').$upload_path_video.'!</p></div>'); OR
</li>
<li>
To remove the line completely so it NEVER tries to change/set the dir permissions on the uploads folder i.e so they remain in tact as original from the WP install
</li>
</ol>

I'd prefer not to open that can of worms and incur the wrath of web hosters by opening up potential security holes by changing folder permissions, so I've just commented the line out completely. The original permissions on the uploads folder are good enough for me. :-)

I hope that helps someone.

Cheerio.

Pete.

My JW player youtube playlists stopped working on or about mid-January 2009. I've updated all relevant files current from http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/export/169/trunk/as3/

When I construct a playlist.xml , everything works.

Yet ... can't reference any youtube playlists - example:

file=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/FF959537205B09BE

Which all worked well back in early January 2009.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, BeeDance (licensed)

I am also having problems with youtube videos.
They start and stop.It takes the video a minute to load.
If you start the video and then stop it then start at the beginning. This should help you view it with no problem.