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hoyois / clicktoplugin

Prevents plug-ins from loading automatically in Safari
http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
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One Youtube video not loading #108

Closed JohnBlackburne closed 9 years ago

JohnBlackburne commented 9 years ago

I spend too much time on YouTube. Found another which seems not to load HTML5, only Flash. Nothing odd I can see about the name or heading: "Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet (Original Video 1981) (HQ 16:9)". Tried restarting Safari in case but it's still not loading, still the only one:

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

hoyois commented 9 years ago

Thanks. The problem is that the get_video_info page returns an error along the lines of "the uploader has not made the video available on other websites". I have experienced this once before with a specific video, but the problem disappeared after a week or so. I suspect these occurrences are bugs on YouTube's side, since the way CTP accesses the get_video_info page works on almost 100% of videos, and certainly the uploader cannot prevent it.

I know a way to get video URLs without calling get_video_info, but it's messy and requires parsing some minified JS files to obtain the signature decoding algorithm. Unless the problem becomes widespread, I don't think it's worth it.

JohnBlackburne commented 9 years ago

Thanks. No, only one instance of it at the moment so certainly not worth spending more time on it

JohnBlackburne commented 9 years ago

Tried to look at it again but the video has been removed due to copyright issues, so there’s not even one now with this problem that I'm aware of.