Hmm, I don't have that problem but your example says it is a duplicate of http://videosift.com/video/6-Year-Old-Girl-with-Schizophrenia ...

Are you anything to block/change codes? But then I am using the latest Ad Block Plus.

Yeah, I picked that example on purpose because I knew it was already sifted. The message *should* tell me that it's a dupe. Instead, I just get an error "Embed code appears to be invalid."

My husband is a fellow sifter, and he isn't having this issue, so I tried logging in to my account and submitting from his computer... Sadly, I still get the same error.

And no, I'm not using any block/change codes.

Maybe @lucky760 could be of help.

Lullaby_lune is my wife, so we occasionally log in on the same computer. While we were in China together we used VPNs to access videos that might have otherwise been caught by the great firewall. Would either of these things have anything to do with her having issues? I've never had problems with embeds.

When submitting youtube videos I always copy and paste the address bar link (the www.youtube one) instead of using the embed code. Maybe give that a try.

@pumkinandstorm
Huh! That actually worked! Video Sift converts the address bar link to a longer iframe embed, and accepts it. Problem solved. Thanks!

It's still weird that the regular iframe embed code provided by YouTube doesn't work for me.

I'm so happy that worked for you! I'm going to check to see what you submitted now.

I wonder if that will work with non-YouTube videos.

I came to say this. You paste the url and click the check button and it automagically converts it to the full embed.

I am not able to submit videos with either the youtube address or the embed code.

If I put the address in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEU13R5jt1w it reports "Sorry, that video host is not supported, and you are not yet privileged to submit from unknown hosts. :-("

If I use the embed code: It repots "Embed code appears to be invalid".

I'm normally pretty good at these things but this has me stumped. Other videos I've tried have the same effect, and lullaby_lune's example video simply says the video has already been submitted.

Have tried different computers and Chrome and IE with no joy so far.

Got it submitted now using the VideoSift Bookmarklet in IE. It still reported that the embed was invalid but when I hit submit it worked anyway. Perhaps it would have worked in Chrome if I had just ignored the message too?

Sorry you're having trouble @Spacedog79. I'm going to have to look into the cause of this problem as soon as I have time. I'm glad at least you have the bookmarklet workaround in the interim.

@lucky760

I know this is an old one, but I just came across the issue again when I tried to submit a YT video that did not provide the old embed code (yeah, I prefer traditional methods).

Anyway, here's the default code:

<iframe width="640" height="480"
src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OPcV9uIY5i4?rel=0"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Can you modify the code generator to correct the underlined part, add the missing 'https:'?

I suppose most people use the url instead while others simply add both protocol and colon by hand, but still...

Pretty please.

Yes - the problem is the missing "http:" or "https:" - neither Vimeo nor YouTube supplies the protocol in their generated embed HTML. And since those are two of the major sources of submitted content, this is a problem.
When submitting a video with a missing http:, the validation reports that it is ok, but the submitted video does not work.

It should be enough with a simple regular expression to detect and correct the missing protocol, making it much easier for new users to submit videos.
https://xkcd.com/208/