Embed of YouTube video fails

Second Attempt produces the same error:

I confirm that I'm seeing exactly the same error - from my tracing it through developer tools, it seems to be a 500 internal server error being returned from a post to https://www.element14.com/community/upload-video!execute.jspa - all seems to be good until the final button is clicked to insert ...

Browser is Firefox (latest version) running on Windows 10 Professional 64-bit edition with latest patches.

- Gough

I can confirm this problem.   It is not just embedding videos,  the functionality with YouTube videos in some of the widgets are broken as well.

I am going to open a ticket with the dev team to fix this.   In the meantime,  if you are comfortable modifying the HTML there is this workaround:

You can add the youtube video using this code:

<p><img class="jive_macro jive_macro_youtube" height="360" width="640" jivemacro="youtube" ___default_attr="###" /></p>

replace ###

with the id of your youtube video.  For instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAEEjyXvUQ

would look like this:

<p><img class="jive_macro jive_macro_youtube" height="360" width="640" jivemacro="youtube" ___default_attr="yqAEEjyXvUQ" /></p>

I've reproduced this - it's affecting the entire site, and all our other sites as well.

I've been quiet because I've been trying to get to the bottom of what is up and what the root cause is. I expect this issue to suddenly go away at some point and I want to get as much detail on the failures as I can while it's still failing.

The root cause is when it is trying to embed a thumbnail image of the video into draft content. We use a third party ( https://embed.ly/ ) to insert content onto the site and they are returning an error that isn't getting handled. We then try to insert that error as an image, and surprise surprise, it fails!

I've reported this issue to the third parties involved. I hope it's a relatively simple solution, but until I hear back, I don't really know anything.

In the mean time, I'm looking at how we can code up a short term workaround should this sort of thing happen again and also how to set up a test harness for this so we don't get this sort of shock again.

Yeah, apparently there were issues on the major social sites but not sure if it was related. 

This is still an issue on element14 though, but Tariq's tariq.ahmad suggestion seems to do the trick.

Thanks tariq.ahmad I have several videos ready for a current road test, so I will need to try this out.

(and this post will keep me on the mailing list for activity in this thread)

I just tried the workaround too, and it was successful. Incidentally I changed the 360 and 640 values to 660 and 880 respectively, for a slightly bigger display, and that worked too, in case anyone wants to do that.

Software Engineers NightMare.!

With both Facebook and Google distancing themselves from YouTube and Java "AnyThing", the time has finally come for A New Change and I'm not so sure that the  .swf to .flv convertors that started YouTube and was charged to .MP4 Standards with 5.1 Channel .M4A Standards are flexible enough to handle the upgrade needed to Proper comply with the Video Standards of today.!

The NightMare?, all those AVI and MOV with MPG files ( still in their system ) that "YouTube may Need to Convert EVERYTHING" to a New Standard and actually, they don't have The Time nor Resources to Comply The Older Stuff to The New Standard.

YouTube is now "Showing Its' Age!".

What do you mean distancing? Doesn't Google own YouTube?

Video embeds should now all be working fine. The issue was with a third party and they've sorted out their dramas now.

Let me know if you have any further problems