YouTube videos on LiveJournal

[yesthattom]

Often when someone embeds a YouTube video it gives an “video not available” error.
However, if I clicky-clicky to find the URL, and go directly to the URL, I am able to play the video from the YouTube.com web site.

Is this just a problem with my system or do other people see it?

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

also, youtube lets you embed things either by the code or with the auto-post thing, that the poster of the video has marked as 'not embeddable' - it still gives you the code, but it shouldn't.

you can see this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zFBj0QwQo

It let me embed it using the auto-post thing, but if you look to the right, in small text in the grey box, it reads, 'Embedding disabled by request'.

However, instead of giving the message that it can't be given, it gives the 'no longer available' message, which is seriously misleading.