Embedded Video Problem

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  benganrocks · Member · Jan 27, 2011 at 7:20 am

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  Um, I realise some of those videos might not be the best examples to display the stuttering or very eh, art-like. ;-)

  I went back through my posts now and it seems that almost all my old embedded videos now suffer from stuttering in IE8! Like this one I posted in september 2010:

  Gymkhana THREE – Ken Block – en galning, hans bil och en vansinnig ovalbana

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 27, 2011 at 7:23 am

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  No, we haven’t heard anything from YouTube. :(

  Is there any improvement if you switch to just pasting the URL on one of the old stuttering videos?

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  benganrocks · Member · Jan 27, 2011 at 7:38 am

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  macmanx: You Sir, are a genius!

  IT WORKED! :-)

  I edited to only pasting the url on this and the stuttering is gone:
  http://bengansblogg.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/gymkhana-three-ken-block-en-galning-hans-bil-och-en-vansinnig-ovalbana/

  Now how do you explain that? :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 27, 2011 at 8:20 am

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  The interwebs is a strange and mysterious creature that lives under beds and survives on dust bunnies?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 27, 2011 at 8:42 am

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  Basically, what TSP said. :)

  Specifically, each method requests the video and player from YouTube in a slightly different fashion, which means that you may wind up with a slightly different video and player. Either way, the video and player still come straight from YouTube, so the problem is definitely still on their end.

  Per YouTube, the method that we use when you simply paste the URL in your post is the most up-to-date method offered by them, so you’ll probably get the best results from that. Plus, it’s cross-compatible between WordPress.com and WordPress.org if you ever had to move your blog.

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  crummerjim · Member · Jan 28, 2011 at 1:02 am

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  Thanks for the tip on re-pasting YouTube URL’s…solved my problem with a couple of interesting side effects. One, the video is larger (more Vimeo sized) than it had been when first added to the post and secondly, rather than returning to the normal freeze frame with the large start arrow, when my video ends it goes to standard YouTube “you might also like this” with unrelated videos that just happen to have one or more words that are in the title, in my case, “Movement.”
  Annoying, but since it gives an option to replay my video and has a non “jittery” playback, it is a relatively small price to pay. That is, unless somebody has a suggestion on how to short-circuit this “you might also like” screen.
  Thanks again macmax for the re-paste suggestion.