Author Topic: youtube test (Read 1439 times)

uncle bud · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2015, 02:26:06 PM »

trying to sort out a bug...

frankie · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2015, 03:19:30 PM »

I bet this is only happening to Safari users.

Johnm · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2015, 03:27:57 PM »

Here is a try from Firefox.

We'll see what happens.

uncle bud · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2015, 03:52:45 PM »

I was using ~~Firefox~~ Chrome.

frankie · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:09:28 PM »

Are yuz both using those browsers on an Apple OS?

frankie · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:11:48 PM »

Firefox on Windoze 7:

frankie · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:14:30 PM »

Chrome on Windoze 7:

Johnm · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:33:09 PM »

I think you may have figured it out, Frank. It looks like maybe Apple users are the ones affected.

frankie · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:42:09 PM »

trying something a bit diffunt... still Windoze 7 and firefox, different URL:

aHA!

frankie · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:47:52 PM »

Quote from: Johnm on May 14, 2015, 06:33:09 PM

I think you may have figured it out, Frank. It looks like maybe Apple users are the ones affected.

When I use the link from the browser address bar, I get the device support message... gonna leave the "https://" alone for illustration purposes:

address bar youtube URL:
"Share" tab youtube URL:

note the difference in the way the URL is constructed...

Embedding the same and removing the offending "s" that the SMF plugin seems to dislike so much...

Address bar:

"Share" tab:

frankie · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:50:42 PM »

I think youtube only wants to support embedding based on the URL construct defined in the "Share" tab, so grab the URL from there, THEN remove the "s" and presto... embedded video.

frankie · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:52:52 PM »

Johnm or unclebud - can one of you try that? Lemme know if I need to splain better.

uncle bud · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2015, 06:59:05 PM »

I'm not on a Mac, PC using Windows 7. So it's not an Apple OS issue. I can duplicate the error and fix in Frank's test.

Share tab:

Address bar:

frankie · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2015, 07:20:21 PM »

Well done, unclebud. A gold star for you.

If we could get a Mac enabled weenie to reproduce the error and fix, that would be great. Here's a little screenshot splaining where to grab the correct (Share tab) and incorrect (Address bar) URLs from.

Johnm · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2015, 07:27:27 PM »

Good trouble-shooting, Frank! I was just able to embed J. T. Smith's "45 Blues" in the "What Is This Musician Doing?" thread, using your methodology on my Mac, and it came through fine. I'm really glad--it's so much nicer to be able to watch/hear the videos here than to get bounced to youtube. I'm going to fix some of my recent posts. Thanks for figuring that out.

frankie · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2015, 07:47:26 PM »

gold star for you, Johnm!

I now return weeniedom to its regularly scheduled blues nerdery.

uncle bud · « **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2015, 04:46:58 AM »

Trying from iOS.

harriet · « **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2015, 05:47:24 AM »

None of these videos are showing up on IOS 7 for me but I am not using tapatalk. I just get a link. I have a "photon" browser and that plays at least the chicago one Frankie posted.

alyoung · « **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2015, 06:39:25 AM »

Testing, testing....this has nothing to do with blues, but it's smart picking ... and it shows that Frank's workaround works from Firefox on Windows 7

uncle bud · « **Reply #20 on:** May 15, 2015, 03:07:16 PM »

Mr. Ka'apana even throws in some Furry Lewis stunt-playing.

Viewing these on iOS/iPad mini viaTapatalk is fine. Via Safari or Chrome on same device I get exactly what Harriet describes.

Harriet, were you previously able to see the embedded youtube video, not just the links?

harriet · « **Reply #21 on:** May 15, 2015, 03:43:05 PM »

I'm afraid just checked on the ipad because of this thread, I've always visited using a desktop either pc or mac. and everything shows up fine in chrome, firefox,explorer on the pc and Safari, Chrome on the mac.

Stuart · « **Reply #22 on:** May 15, 2015, 04:02:55 PM »

FWIW: Several years back I was at a friend's place in Indiana and he started having problems watching some Youtube videos on IE --nothing showed up--just a blank screen. They would play on Firefox, but not on IE. We went to school (Purdue) and I asked the tech support guys about it. They said that it often happens when YT tweaks something and Adobe has yet to catch up with a release of Flash Player, etc. (--In the PC world.) They went on to say that the various browsers and operating systems have to be up to date and Flash--or the equivalent in the Apple world--have to be up to date as well. --And sometimes Flash has to be updated within each browser--doing it in FF won't necessarily solve the problem in IE or Chrome. So the first step is to check that everything is up to date. Another problem is that other installed programs running in background can interfere. It can really be a headache to sort all of this stuff out.

Led usually makes it out here a couple of times a year, sometimes with Mike Kaawa. Great players, both of them--real showmen.

harriet · « **Reply #23 on:** May 15, 2015, 05:03:40 PM »

With browsers on ios Steve Jobs decided not to make his ios system devices compatible with flash - I saw his video on it, he said he thought it was too slow.

Tapatalk I assume has some scripting in it that the developers keep up to date as do some forum software, proboards and Yuku seem to.

Glad to know there is something like tapatalk or Photon if I decide to view weeniecampbell on ios.

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