| Embed codes not working anymore | FrankSo | 5/17/10 6:20 AM | Hi people, I received a video url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekZUK6hTXGw) that is working fine. But when I embed it (with http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ekZUK6hTXGw) in an article on our website this is not working anymore. It works when I remo |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | ebbixx | 5/17/10 7:32 AM | Why are you changing the '?' to a '/'? |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | FrankSo | 5/17/10 7:47 AM | I use a TYPO3 (cms) extension for this. The extension required the url to be changed: "?v=" had to be "/v/". Anyway this was working. Now both the "?v=" and "/v/" versions of the url aren't working anymore (not only this video but all the urls I alre |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | ebbixx | 5/17/10 8:08 AM | I'm not very familiar with TYPO3 extensions. I'd suggest posting these questions in a forum where you can expect a higher concentration of TYPO3 experts in those to offer some ideas and potential workarounds. YouTube code is changing constantly, so |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | FrankSo | 5/17/10 8:31 AM | Thanks anyway. I'm quite sure it doesn't have anything to do with our CMS. It has to be a change made by Youtube. Though I can't find any notification about it. |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | ebbixx | 5/17/10 8:47 AM | If the problem can only be fixed on YouTube's side, then I guess you're schrod. |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | epontius | 5/17/10 9:25 AM | The /v should be pulling the actual flash stream... so it would appear that your CMS is re-wrapping the video and creating it's own embed code rather than using the embed code that YouTube supplies. The actual embed code will use the same /v as that |
| Re: Embed codes not working anymore | rewboss | 5/20/10 1:19 AM | In a URL, slashes separate directory names from each other and from file names; question marks are used to send additional parameters to the server. This is the URL of a YouTube video watch page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekZUK6hTXGw This URL |