Video Unavailabe. Watch on YouTube.

[symbolipoint]

What is happening and with the on-forum compositional code when we see a link for a video showing the normal front unplayed display and then when we click to play it, the video displays "Video Unavailable; Watch on YouTube"?

 

[Ibix]

It's a setting on YouTube chosen by the owner of the video if they don't want you to watch it embedded in somebody else's webpage. You can still embed the thumbnail but you have to go to YouTube to watch it.

 

[berkeman]

I know very little about this, but at least once when that happened to me I was able to go to the creator's website, find the video there and copy that URL to paste it in here. It seemed like getting to the video from the creator's website instead of through Facebook (where I usually find videos) got rid of the problem for me.

 

[symbolipoint]

I know very little about this, but at least once when that happened to me I was able to go to the creator's website, find the video there and copy that URL to paste it in here. It seemed like getting to the video from the creator's website instead of through Facebook (where I usually find videos) got rid of the problem for me.

I should have described a little more clearly in post #1; the message about going to YouTube to see the video using clicking the second time on the link is what you often are made to do on Physicsforums. @Ibex clarified enough about the situation. I could only guess that something like that may be a possible arrangement with Facebook. Be of any YouTube video shown on Facebook? My guess is that the situation works the way Ibex said.

 

[berkeman]

If I run into the situation again, I'll try to post it all here in this Feedback thread. It happened to me twice in the last week when I was trying to link to videos that I'd found in my FB feed (like cute babies and puppies and important stuff like that).

 

[symbolipoint]

If I run into the situation again, I'll try to post it all here in this Feedback thread. It happened to me twice in the last week when I was trying to link to videos that I'd found in my FB feed (like cute babies and puppies and important stuff like that).

At least that may help to confirm what we 'been told.

 

[pinball1970]

Its just two clicks so no big deal, pf is still open in the background.

What is irritating for me is not even getting the thumbnail.

 

[berkeman]

Okay, this is weird. I got the black box thing when I tried to post a YouTube video in one of the humor threads a few minutes ago, so I manually pasted in a screenshot of the initial image of the video above the black box to make it more obvious what the video was about. Okay, whatever.

Then when I went back by my post about 20 minutes later, the black box from YouTube had changed into a normal link to the video! WTH?

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/collection-of-lame-jokes.25301/post-7101256

 

[berkeman]

And now I give up trying to understand this. I went back to that post because I figured, "Now that the YouTube video is visible, there is no need for my redundant image to be posted above it." Wrong. I deleted the screenshot image, refreshed, and poof! the black box was back. I give up -- I returned the screenshot image and will just deal with it. Lordy.

 

[BillTre]

I just looked at it.
Two pictures, but had to go to youtube to see the video.

 

[Hornbein]

It's because it takes a while for PhysicsForums to get the thumbnail from Youtube. You often -- though not always -- can get the thumbnail by reloading the PhysicsForum page.