RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong when inserting a link to a YouTube video. I want the video to be embedded (i.e. play within the RMWeb window rather than taking you off to YouTube and playing there). My video is here: https://youtu.be/TDJQ9q3DfB0 I get a message saying "the link could not be embedded because it is not in a supported format". The video comes out of my camera as an mp4 file. Do I need to convert it to some other format before I can embed it? Are there limits on the P/M rates? (the camera is set to XAVC S HD, 50p50M). Thanks. PS: I also tried the "embed" option from YouTube, which gives me this code to paste: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TDJQ9q3DfB0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> which also doesn't produce the desired result. Edited December 19, 2020 by GWR57xx PS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Last time I saw that message it was with an .mp4 file, but when I went back into YouTube, there was a note re copyright on the video I had uploaded. May be worthwhile going back to My Videos in your YouTube channel and checking the settings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted December 19, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, gordon s said: Last time I saw that message it was with an .mp4 file, but when I went back into YouTube, there was a note re copyright on the video I had uploaded. May be worthwhile going back to My Videos in your YouTube channel and checking the settings. It’s set to “unlisted”. Does it need to be “public”? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2020 Just tried a couple of mine to check the format in the link was the same. It was. I will agree with the post above that you may have a You Tube setting blocking the embedding for general viewing. It must not be set to "Private" but can be "Unlisted" or "Public". The difference in the latter two is that either can be viewed by anyone with the link but only "Public" videos will be displayed in response to a search request. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, GWR57xx said: It’s set to “unlisted”. Does it need to be “public”? I have just tried that with one of my 'unlisted' videos and it will embed. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) As posted above, unlisted means it will not appear in any searches, so only those with the URL of the video can see it. It shouldn’t impact the embedding....... I’ll try and embed it myself..... Edited December 19, 2020 by gordon s 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, gordon s said: I’ll try and embed it myself..... It wouldn't work for me and I cannot see why. But clicking the link activates the video in a new window. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) My video downloader says 'No video to be found on this page'. Not had that before. Edit: Downloader needed restarting. Edited December 20, 2020 by Free At Last 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Same here (the link works), so I wonder if it has been correctly uploaded. Normally the URL link comes up under share, but all I can see is the facility to email it to others. I suspect that may be as it’s not my account. I take another look tomorrow if its still not resolved. Edited December 19, 2020 by gordon s 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJQ9q3DfB0&feature=youtu.be Same problem as OP describes. Nothing I can do will clear it but it is readily viewable and not exactly over-long (therefore not exceeding any limits) via this link on You Tube. Which suggests the problem may lie with the upload or in OP's You Tube account. Edited December 19, 2020 by Gwiwer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted December 20, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2020 Thanks for trying to help. I couldn’t see any options in YouTube to alter the way the file was uploaded, so it’s just as it came straight out of the camera (via my PC). I’ll try changing some of the camera settings to see if that makes any difference. If not, I still have an old lower-res camera I can try... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted December 20, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2020 This is just a sanity check. This is a video from my old camera, which produces .MOV files. Uploaded to YouTube then the link pasted here, exactly as before. Seems to work ok. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 20, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 20, 2020 I don't know the answer I'm afraid as I've had it happen occasionally for no apparent reason. It's not as simple as file types as I create anything up to 50fps HD and 4K files in MP4 format. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted December 20, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2020 A few more test files using different camera settings: AVCHD 50i 17M (camera produces a .MTS file, this is the lowest resolution this camera will do): Yay!! XAVC S HD 25p 16M (.MP4 file, next step up): Yay!!! XAVC S HD 25p 50M (.MP4): XAVC S 4K 25p 60M (.MP4): XAVC S HD 50p 50M (.MP4, original attempt): https://youtu.be/TDJQ9q3DfB0 "The link could not be embedded because it is not in a supported format." It appears that I was just unlucky in that I happened to choose 50p (not knowing anything about video). 25p appears to work fine, so good news that I can use the new camera which should have much better focus than the old one . 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted December 20, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2020 One last test. XAVC S HD 50p 25M, MP4: Hmm... Not sure what to conclude, except that I'll stick to HD 25p 16M (25fps, 16Mb/s) MP4 files for now. Smaller file size and I don't need any higher resolution. Thanks for your help everyone. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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