Widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading

.Griff. · Jul 07, 2011, 10:14:36

There seems to be a widespread problem with Youtube videos not loading for a lot of people. Where the video should be displayed there's a blank black box instead.

It's affecting me and after a quick Google it seems to be affecting a lot of other people as well so this is just a quick heads up to anyone with the same problem who may be concerned it's their PC at fault.

Simon · Jul 07, 2011, 10:16:07

Thanks Griff.

Niall · Jul 07, 2011, 12:06:07

You might want to get the option for these forums to allow youtube video posts, we've got it on our SMF forums over at a mates site. Seems to work fine on websites I've seen today

Hmm, the youtube embed thing for SMF seems to have vanished in our last update of the forum. I wonder why no one has mentioned it

pctech · Jul 07, 2011, 12:25:38

Google cloud heading down to earth?

trophymick · Jul 07, 2011, 13:54:13

Bizarre problem, it's affecting Windows 7, but not Linux Mint.

Aint windoze great?

Niall · Jul 07, 2011, 15:16:34

They're ace for looking through

pctech · Jul 07, 2011, 18:00:35

XP not affected

Glenn · Jul 07, 2011, 18:04:56

Works fine on my Windows 7 laptop too.

Niall · Jul 07, 2011, 18:32:10

It's been working again for a couple of hours at least. I've been watching videos about the shiny things my camera can do

Simon · Jul 08, 2011, 00:00:15

Quote from: Niall on Jul 07, 2011, 12:06:07
Hmm, the youtube embed thing for SMF seems to have vanished in our last update of the forum. I wonder why no one has mentioned it

Never knew we had it!

Glenn · Jul 08, 2011, 05:47:58

It's not a native SMF feature as far as I'm aware.

zappaDPJ · Jul 08, 2011, 06:17:01

It's not Glenn. I did suggest it myself many moons ago but it was felt at the time that it might slowdown page creation.

Niall · Jul 08, 2011, 11:06:32

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 08, 2011, 05:47:58
It's not a native SMF feature as far as I'm aware.

Apparently (I forgot to come back and tell you

) when the last update came out, or the one before (not sure) they removed the add on that allowed you to embed, and you just past the youtube link and it'll do it for you (or at least does on the other forums I admin)

.Griff. · Jul 08, 2011, 11:22:30

For auto embedding on my SMF forum I've always used - http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=977

Niall · Jul 08, 2011, 11:52:26

SMF 2? Is that a beta? I only updated to 1.1.14 yesterday?

pctech · Jul 08, 2011, 11:54:52

No Niall, its been production ready for quite a while now I think.

Glenn · Jul 08, 2011, 11:55:06

SMF 2.0 went gold in late June.

Niall · Jul 08, 2011, 12:11:35

My, there are some angry people on those forums.

Simon · Jul 08, 2011, 13:16:43

We have SMF 2.0 on Pals. It's not without some issues. To relate to your question though, Niall, Flash is enabled by default, but we turned it off.

Niall · Jul 08, 2011, 13:27:57

There used to be an exploit on SMF forums with flash embedding enabled. I can't remember what it was, but we disabled it on our forums for that reason.