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You tube playlist stopped working


All my youtube playlists stopped working all of a sudden........they were working fine until now.

Wonder if youtube changed anything from their side ? Does your youtube playlist work anymore ? status bar shows that "waiting for gdata.youtube.com"..........something

The wizard here to create a youtube playlist doesnt seem to work as well.....

help please !!!!

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JW Player

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However it is not a nice problem it is good to see that I'm not the only one.
I have the same problem since yesterday (11-06-08).

The YouTube files are still working on You Tube. The pasted code(only the small nummer and letter combination) inside the FLV-playlist is still the same as the working one on YouTube , but is not working anymore in the FLV. Just a black screen. Other content of the mixed playlist (mp3, jpg, flash) is still working. So it seems not to be a general problem but specific to YouTube!

I hope someone knows why this is happening.
Maybe a direct question to Jeroen Weijering. The creator!!





JW Player

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when i try the wizard YT playing works fine on win xp IE7 and FF2 - http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard&example=6

you dont mention which platform, but a couple of days ago there was a windows update -
so maybe you have a firewall problem or need to reinstall the flash browser plugin?

adobe flash version test: - http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_15507
adobe flash deinstall: - http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157
adobe flash install: - http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

JeroenW

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I’ve indeed seen that Youtube has changed the location of their API. i have no clue if this is an error or permanent.

I’ll fix this ASAP in the 3.x player. For now you can swiftly use the 4.0 player, in which even Youube playlists work:

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=test&example=123
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/player.swf

If anyone can find more info in this, please share!

JW Player

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looks like it started working again.............i had the same problem yesterday with my youtube playlists, just blank screen.

But now everything just started working again.

I think youtube was messing around with their servers then !!!

JW Player

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Problem with YouTube playlist is solved now.
Everything is working again.

Thanks

JW Player

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I have again a blank screen.

JW Player

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Hi i have same problem with the player, two day ago and today morning. i'ts strange, because now work all again.

before I think a problem with my code, but i did go to wizard page and not work too.

I use link like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CdYKaA6XXA

wen not work i did go to another webpage that use jw player and youtube video, in this page all work fine, but the link to video is different

like this: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=a4X7eFbP3u4%26t=OEgsToPDskJG8RZ5MaXN969Zz170Y4oI

and the player version is 3.11 (i not see in download page)

well , I can solve my problem? i need oldest player? how i can generate second link?

plese help me and sorry for my bad english.

thanks to everybody.

JW Player

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@eBuddy - dont go back to the old player ! - but wait a few days and see if the problem goes way - youtube are having trouble

JW Player

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thanks anderson for response, but my question is why in this website with the old player, the videos work fine, is only problem of link?

thanks again to everybody

JW Player

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@eBuddy

they use a completely different method - and it can stop working anytime too! because youtube change those download links!
when you use the new player - the files are fetched using the official youtube api method - that is supposed to be stable...

JW Player

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Ok thanks andersen, I wait, if there is problem again i write again.

thanks a lot for your help

JW Player

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I am having this problem with youtube and dailymotion, the screen goes all white/blank. I have uninstalled & re-installed Java but doesn't seem to work.

I heard something about uninstalling Flash, dont know which to uninstall

JW Player

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Ive found answer on some website:

Tools > internet options > security tab > custom level > scripting > enable > ok > apply > ok

JW Player

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Hi, Im having the same problem, Youtube playlist feature is not working.!

*Somebody can tell me if did fix the issue, and please.., say me what to do to fix it in my player.?*


Thanks

JW Player

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Hello,

Same problem here. The playlist keeps loading forever and ever and ever.....

It's getting tiresome, please help :(

JW Player

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Mine shows the contents of my playlist but doesn't offer a setting to play the whole playlist. Anyone know how to fix this?

JW Player

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I have the same problem - no setting available to play the whole list!

JW Player

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i cannot watch videos, it keep sayn down load adobe flasher

JW Player

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ejecuto y me aparece stoped working???como lo soluciono??

JW Player

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Hey guys, some students created that application: http://en.YouTube-Playlist.eu There you can listen to music the whole day, of course for free. bye ;)

JW Player

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I was wondering if anybody could tell me why my computer wont play streams i have the flash player and everything just nothing that has a stream such as music and video wont play or just shows a black screen or nothing at all im new to computers so any help or advice would be helpful thanks in advance

JW Player

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My Youtube has been giving me nothing but a blank screen for months. I system restored back to a time when I know it was still working but no luck. I tried to install adobe flashplayer and nothing. I use avant browser, but I also tried it on explorer and I get the same result. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Finito. Goose egg. Wtf?

JW Player

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i tried every videos but it always says that the video is no longer availible. it says that on every video that i play.
does anybody know what is happenning? any idea to solve the problem?

JW Player

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If you are tired of youtube but want a way to connect with artists and musicians and their videos then you should check out www.putiton.com
If you are tired of youtube all together than you should probably leave your bedroom and go interact with the real world ;)

JW Player

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um i dont undertsand how to get play music off youtube its saying that eiether my java turned off or i need the new adobe cuz mine is the old version , or some shit and its really pissing me off cuz i have downloaded the new adobe and its still not working and i really need HELP . LIKE NOW i neeed to fix it so i can listen to some music , can anyone at all help me fix the matters of this youtube shit , it wont work on any music site , with out sayin this shit bout my java turned off , or that i have the old version of adobe and that i needd the new one , i just need HELP , ASAP .

JW Player

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Guys, there's another problem with YouTube playlists that started for me personally yesterday. I cannot add any videos to may playlist, even though the playlist I'm trying to add videos to aren't even full. After clicking the 'Add' button, the page returns to the top of the screen and if I click on the video player, the tab heading changes to '#' instead of 'Youtube - [name of video]'. I've never had a problem with my playlists until yesterday, so I need help pronto...please...

JW Player

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CNG - I'm having the same problem. I have tried it on different computers, networks, and browsers. It's on their end and hopefully they are aware of it.

JW Player

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same problem

JW Player

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I've had the same problem. Does anyone know what's going on?

JW Player

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Are you talking about an error that your having on the YouTube website, or using the JW Player on your own site?

JW Player

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i have this problem also

the youtube playlist is not working!!!


while i was able to play them yesterday

JW Player

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same here no playlist on mysite

JW Player

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can't listen the music on youtube plz help!!!!!!!!!

JW Player

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can some one tell me step by step to fix my youtube i got the same problem :(:(:(

JW Player

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can u help me please

JW Player

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i go on my channel go to playlist and it says sorry, the w/e is unavaible. it been doing that 4 a month its so god dam annyoing youtube better fix it or they b losing millions of ppl

JW Player

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Has there been any update on this problem?

We have a youtube playlist - displaying via longtail player. Worked for the past year or so - perfectly.

Not sure when the problem first occured - but now - it pulls the playlist (the thumbnails and video descriptions appear) - but when you click to play the video - it just spins the little "loading icon" and then goes back to listing the playlist.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions??

JW Player

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can u help me plz evry time i doanload something it says stop workiing for a little over a year

JW Player

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up date my problem i wait 1 year after the year and i want to play this game

JW Player

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I don't completely understand your problems but if anyone has problems with playing your playlist on your channel if not logged in:

Log in, go to your channel (by clicking on your youtube-name), click on 'edit' (upright), and change featured content set to 'all my stuff'.

JW Player

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Dumb YouTube with their forced ugly new channel design can no longer link directly to a playlist. That just sucks.

JW Player

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^Truth, that. Their new, newb designers on board there have certainly succeeded in frigging things up.

JW Player

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Ummm Youtube won't let me play a playlist on anyone's page... why??? Help....... grrr

JW Player

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Got the same problem, and it was fine yesterday, and I don't think it's an error, it's just crappy YouTube.

JW Player

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I have a problem to watching youtube video

Ethan Feldman

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rajan – Can you provide a link to where you are running this?

JW Player

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Hi! I use YouTube like, a LOT (although it probably isn't compared to others, but that's not the point.), and recently, whether it's because of the new YouTube updates or something else, YouTube doesn't work AT ALL until I refresh my browser. And refresh... and refresh...


Help anyone?

JW Player

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I strted using Google Chrome browser to play you tube playlists and it works a lot better than IE or Firefox.

JW Player

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*SOLUTION FOUND!!!*

After trying to modify the crossdomain.xml file, the object file, the javascript, etc etc etc I realized that there was a yt.swf file which I overlooked. So after replacing each of the new files 1 by 1 it finally worked when I replaced this one.

You need to "re-download" the new version of the JW Player, in particular the yt.swf which has been modified in the new version (after youtube updated their api and made everything stop working)

If you don't want to re-download everything and save re-coding just:
<ol>
<li>Download the new version of JW Player
<li>Unzip/extract it
<li>Copy the new "yt.swf" file and replace it where ever it's on your server.
</ol>
*RESULT:* No more "waiting for gdata.youtube.com....."

My 2 cents

Ethan Feldman

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Thanks for providing that! :)

JW Player

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If you try to play a video in the main YouTube screen ,you can click on the tiny rectangular icon in the bottom right corner of the player screen, the video will popout in a seperate box and play normally. also you can click on the name of the person that uploaded the video and it will take you to their youTube channel page. You can view the video in their channel window.

JW Player

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Hi there!

Quick question -- I have an existing playlist already setup through youtube. It contains 22 videos. And it worked fine. I went to add a new video to youtube in the same playlist and now, the new video does not show up in the list?

The file is in the playlist on my youtube account.

Any ideas?

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
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It should, do you have a link?

JW Player

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In the wizard, I tried to play a youtube playlist after inserting its "PLAYLIST_ID" but didn't work.
I used the following:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLAYLIST_ID?v=2
and also I tried this:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/PLAYLIST_ID
what went wrong?
thanks

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
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Replied to your email…

JW Player

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It hasnt been working for me since 2011....

Ethan Feldman

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Oh yeah, do you have a link?

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