Hi all.
When I try to look at an embedded YouTube video, all I get is a black rectangle.
View attachment 27952
Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks.
That seems likely, I agree.I think it may have something to with YouTube moving over to HTML5 and Google moving away from Adobe Flash.
The forum software might still be trying to process it as Flash?
That's what's happening. Will have a look into whether there's an easy solution but I suspect not (in the immediate term ) as the version of vBulletin we run is no longer officially supported other than for security updates.
After some trial and error, this seems to work - tested on Chrome (Windows & Android), IE and Edge...
If the original YouTube URL is like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGm0klp3uW0
then just put the last part (EGm0klp3uW0 in this case) between 'youtube' tags, like this:
(youtube)EGm0klp3uW0(/youtube)
but with the () replaced by []
...to get this on the page:
[youtube]EGm0klp3uW0[/youtube]
The embedded player seems to be HTML5 on Chrome and Edge, and Flash on IE (on my Win 10 PC at least).
That was always the way (FYI you can use noparse tags to hide formatting)
[youtube]EGm0klp3uW0[/youtube]
I've no trouble on Firefox on Linux. I don't have flash installed so they must finally be using HTML5