YouTube embeds no longer playing embedded

LuvTheMonkey

Tested on: Chrome 45.0.2454.85, Edge 20.10240.16384.0, Firefox Developer Edition 42.0a2 (2015-09-08)

Youtube embeds are now acting like a normal hotlink and going to that video's Youtube page instead of playing in the embedded player. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpVeJqx7gI

EDIT: Perhaps not? I am going to test again.

LuvTheMonkey

It seems to be entirely random at the moment, some YouTube links will play embedded and some will act as a hyperlink.

Delmain

This is happening to me too.

Chrome Version 45.0.2454.85 m and Firefox 35.0.1 and 40.0.3 (I hadn't updated in a while)

Iruka

Interesting. I'm trying to isolate this. @LuvTheMonkey let me know if you see a pattern?

End

I take one look at it and now I'm confused how it ever works (actually, it seems to always fail for me, so maybe some people have a cached good copy or something?)

        var pattern = /^[\w-]+(\?autoplay\=1)(\&start=[\w-]+)?$/;
        if (!videoid.test(pattern)) {
            return false;
        }

videoid is a string, and pattern is a RegExp. So, isn't that supposed to be !pattern.test(videoid)?

However, that's just the error when I click the play button. Not sure if that's the same problem with the whole preview image or not, since I haven't tried digging into that.

BlankZoe

I'm getting an issue where the YouTube preview images are now just images and when I click on them it opens them in a new tab

Some still work but most of them are non functioning

SaraLuna

I'm seeing the whole preview image, but clicking play does nothing.
firefox 40.0.3 here

BahamutZERO

I'm getting the preview image that acts as a link to the youtube page instead of playing inside the current page when clicked, like Blank is

LuvTheMonkey

Iruka wrote: »

Interesting. I'm trying to isolate this. LuvTheMonkey let me know if you see a pattern?

No pattern as of yet, and Chrome's multitude of errors that pop when the Chromecast extension is not installed are making looking at the debug console hard. I will try FF Dev after I've slept and go from there.

Grey Ghost

Blankzilla wrote: »

I'm getting an issue where the YouTube preview images are now just images and when I click on them it opens them in a new tab

Some still work but most of them are non functioning

I am getting this on Chrome on mobile, but desktop Chrome is still OK

Goatmon

I'm having the same problem, chrome on windows 8.1

Rock Lobster!

Went to go through the SE++ youtube thread to see if previously working ones weren't (and if there were any differences with links), and everything seems fixed now. Stuff that was sending me to youtube five minutes ago are playing embedded now.

Edit: Scratch that. Two minutes later everything is linking to youtube again. Weird.

Grey Ghost

I want to clarify in case we're talking about something else here

When I click an embedded YouTube video on the mobile site the link only goes to a jpg of the preview image
It doesn't even take me to YouTube itself

Iruka

Should be working now.

Delmain

Yep, seems to be working for me. I checked this thread and the one I originally saw the problem in and both videos seems to be working. I'll keep an eye out and update if I find anything that isn't working.

I'm on desktop though, I don't know if the mobile issue that Grey Ghost is referring to was fixed.

Delmain

Welp, I found two videos that don't work, though another one does

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/200553/chat-son-pollock/p65

the two apple videos (starting with the one with jeff goldblum) on page 65 don't work. they link to youtube instead of embedding

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/200553/chat-son-pollock/p66

the video on this page of a traffic cam embedded correctly when clicked on

This happened in FF and Chrome, I checked both after I saw it happen

LuvTheMonkey

Delmain wrote: »

Welp, I found two videos that don't work, though another one does

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/200553/chat-son-pollock/p65

the two apple videos (starting with the one with jeff goldblum) on page 65 don't work. they link to youtube instead of embedding

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/200553/chat-son-pollock/p66

the video on this page of a traffic cam embedded correctly when clicked on

This happened in FF and Chrome, I checked both after I saw it happen

Amazingly enough, the exact opposite happened for me. Both apple videos on page 65 there embedded properly, and the traffic cam video on page 66 linked instead of embedded.

bowen

There's a difference in their link too

One uses "https:// youtu.be /luFgV4nuSxc" (without the spaces obviously)

The other uses the old style link of https:// youtube.com /v=luFgV4nuSxc or whatnot

LuvTheMonkey

Now that I'm home, everything I'm trying is working as embedded. To bowen's point, they are all showing in Chrome's inspector as the latter style.

LuvTheMonkey

I have to recind my previous note, most all Youtube videos are working as links instead of embeds at the moment.

LuvTheMonkey

I know multi posting is bad and all, but I found something in the console logs:

Uncaught TypeError: videoid.test is not a function

This shows up every time videos act as a link, it never shows up for videos that embed. Seems to reference global.js line 1231, and videoid gets defined a few before that at line 1223.

Infidel

Yep, I was just about to post that it should be reversed with "pattern.test(videoid)" or "videoid.match(pattern)" but it looks like that has just been fixed?

e: the fix is in 2.2.100.8 but some pages still are referencing javascript version 2.2.100.7 so that's the erratic behaviour, should sort itself in time I would think

bowen

Speaking of errors with it, anytime someone includes "t=" in the URL (selecting a start time) it just errors out on my end.

Iruka

Could you guys link some examples, I cant reproduce anymore.

You bros are clearing you cache out, yeah?

bowen

Yeah this has been happening forever but hasn't really bugged me, just thought I'd bring it up:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/33382142/#Comment_33382142

If I quote it and replace the t= part of the link, it works fine.

Happening across a full reformat and a few workstations. Might be a chrome issue, since that's the only real common thing between them.

Iruka

Hmm

the format of that broken video is

youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=lKUwVYUKii4

but when I go to the video and link from the time, youtube gives me this:

youtu.be/lKUwVYUKii4?t=25s

which works:

https://youtu.be/lKUwVYUKii4?t=25s

so how do you get a URL in that format, originally?

bowen

That's the link that comes from the non-html5 player when you "copy video at current time" AFAIK.