Youtube embedded videos not working

[Mörkö]

For me it seems like videos in posts doesn't work. It just shows the gray box with a message about needing to install a plugin.

To make things clear: I do not have flash installed.

I do not know anything about web coding, but my guess is the forum doesn't support the HTML5 player perhaps. I can watch videos on youtube and other sites with embedded videos just fine, so I'm hoping it's not too big of a deal to fix this problem.

Using Mozilla Firefox and gnome version of Fedora 20 GNU+linux.

[Laurent]

To make things clear: I do not have flash installed.

This may be the reason, I'm not sure.

I could update the plugin, but given that the release notes don't mention such an issue, and that this forum has custom modifications, I won't take the risk of updating, sorry.

[Jesper Juhl]

For what it's worth; I've got no problem viewing embedded videos from this forum on my Android phone which does not have flash...

[Rhimlock]

As far as I know, not all videos on YouTube support HTML5.
Some of them still require Flash.

[Mörkö]

Well It's no big deal, I just noticed the problem while browsing the projects sub forum and thought I would mention it.

For what it's worth, here's an update to the report:

In this thread the first two vids are showing the error for me, but the video in reply #6 is able to display without problem.

While it's impossible for me to see what the two first videos in the thread are, I'm guessing they are the two other gameplay videos from doc lulle's channel. I can watch them on the posters youtube channel just fine, which increases my suspicion that the problem has to do with the embedding of videos on this forum, as opposed to youtube or my browser.

[Hapax]

In this thread the first two vids are showing the error for me, but the video in reply #6 is able to display without problem.

I had a quick look and that last video has a "share" link but the first two do not. That seems to be the only difference in the players. I'm not sure why one would have it and others don't though.