Google Video problem?

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  rollmops · Member · May 25, 2006 at 11:13 pm

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  Now i had the second video from Google which i was not able to embed to a post, as suggested in the FAQ:

  Google Video

  Usually it works fine, but with 2 videos i have this problem. I can see a frame from the video, but if i click the play button, i get the “currently not available”-error from google.

  The video itself is fine and also ’embedable’, so maybe there is a problem with some charakters in the embedding-code and the db…

  Has anyone else made a similar experience?

  PS: Video is here:

  The man with the Movie Camera (1929)

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  darrylcollins1 · Member · May 27, 2006 at 7:07 am

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  I posted almost exactly the same thing here, but I haven’t had a response yet.

  http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=2107&replies=1

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  rollmops · Member · May 27, 2006 at 8:13 am

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  I found out, that if there is any not proper HTML _before_ the embedding video-code, it won’t play. This affects YouTube- and GoogleVideos. And if you do heavy editing, TinyMCE get’s confused and makes rubbish code (ie. interlaced hrefs). So i assume more some problem in the direction Editor-Database-Embedding or so… Didn’t get any response from my feedback also, but they are busy. So maybe if more people report sthg similar…

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  podz · Member · May 27, 2006 at 9:54 am

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  Sorry – I forgot / got busy / apologise.

  Trying various combinations this morning just gets me ‘This video is currently not available. Try again later’ – which I will. I know of no reason why this should have broken but if I can’t figure it out consistently I’ll pass it on.

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  podz · Member · May 27, 2006 at 6:25 pm

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  I have 3 googlevideo links on a testblog and they all still show as above. It’ll be passed on.

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  podz · Member · May 27, 2006 at 7:59 pm

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  Okay.. there have been no code changes at all.
  The 3 videos I linked to are still unplayable.
  Taking a video from G-videos front page does work so the problem has to be their end.

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  rollmops · Member · May 28, 2006 at 8:41 am

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  podz, thanks a lot for your efforts testing this.
  But what we will do now with the few videos which won’t play?
  Embedding videos is for me very important and was a main reason for choosing WordPress. If some will still play and some not, i will never know before. That is a ugly dent on our celebration day :(

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  drmike · Member · May 28, 2006 at 3:39 pm

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  I’m now getting the error myself where in the past it just wasn’t loading. Looks like it’s coming from Google’s side though.

  Dumb question. What is the video of? I’m noting that it appears Google has gone in and censored/ removed some videos. Looks like it’s happening to others as well.

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  rollmops · Member · May 28, 2006 at 9:42 pm

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  drmike: we were talking about embedded videos. All the videos will play normally accessed through GV directly, but won’t play if embedded here at wordpress. That’s weird.

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  rollmops · Member · Jun 8, 2006 at 9:51 am

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  It seems that Google has shortened the Video-URI, and my videos all work fine now. They are learning from uTube quick ;)

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  drmike · Member · Jun 8, 2006 at 2:16 pm

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  Um, actually YouTube just lengthened theirs. :)

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  rollmops · Member · Jun 8, 2006 at 4:45 pm

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  Oh no, they are all way too fast for me ;)
  But thanks drmike + podz for all your great help & support!
  I really appreciate this.