LiveLeak Player no longer Works
OK, So I have noticed lately, I'm discarding quite a few posts because I'm not getting any votes on them.
As it turns out, No one can vote if they can't watch the video.
The videos work just fine on LiveLeak but won't play in video sift.
Having a look on LiveLeak's site, I noticed a link at the top of each video that reads "Change Flash Player (If you experience problems)"
It looks like they have updated their video player. Clicking the link allows you to switch to V.4 instead of using the new V.5
They have obviously been experiencing problems with the player or they wouldn't have the link.
Clicking the link does nothing for fixing the Videosift posts but, I'm guessing, it's the reasons their videos aren't working here lately.
A few of my current posts that don't seem to be working on the sift but are working on Liveleak are:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Agreement
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Brokaw-Explains-Canada-To-Americans
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obama-is-a-Liar-This-guy-Hates-Obama
This LiveLeak video works but seems to be using the old player:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Business-Steals-Land
As it turns out, No one can vote if they can't watch the video.
The videos work just fine on LiveLeak but won't play in video sift.
Having a look on LiveLeak's site, I noticed a link at the top of each video that reads "Change Flash Player (If you experience problems)"
It looks like they have updated their video player. Clicking the link allows you to switch to V.4 instead of using the new V.5
They have obviously been experiencing problems with the player or they wouldn't have the link.
Clicking the link does nothing for fixing the Videosift posts but, I'm guessing, it's the reasons their videos aren't working here lately.
A few of my current posts that don't seem to be working on the sift but are working on Liveleak are:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Agreement
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Brokaw-Explains-Canada-To-Americans
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obama-is-a-Liar-This-guy-Hates-Obama
This LiveLeak video works but seems to be using the old player:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Business-Steals-Land
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I've been noticing the same thing. Some liveleak videos embed perfectly to VS and others end up with a grey buffering that will only play if you click on it and go to liveleak. People at liveleak can upload a lot of different video formats. I'm thinking one of the newer formats doesn't jive with videosift.
On a video that I can view perfectly fine on LiveLeak, I get an error on the embed that reads
"No suitable model found for playback of this film"
I just posted another one, and this is what I get.
See the example and let me know what your results are!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Michael-Jackson-Transformation
this has happened for me as well in past, and right now-
forget region blocked, it works on the other puter in the next room but not on this one...
xp with firefox
this one http://videosift.com/video/Japanese-Drum-Taiko-Live-Leak
wanna vote or watch, can't see it-thank god it's not all bullshit US TV network site's players that won't work for Canadians-(yer better off, trust me)
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Promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by choggie.
So far, every one of the links posted here connect to plugins.longtailvideo.com
More links here as well.
Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
So does anyone know- Is there a way we can update the embed, using the same video ID and restore the videfos?
There is some difference between the way liveleak is embedding it at their site and the way it gets embedded here, and it has something to do with longtailvideo.com providing a way to monetize the views. All I know is that I can view something at liveleak but the embed from that exact same video I can not view here.
link
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Promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by burdturgler.
edit .. well I promoted this because I saw someone else was still having problems with liveleak vids but, I see now that all the links for them are suddenly working for me.
I'm still using the latest firefox and flash (didn't do a re-install or anything). Maybe liveleak got their player sorted out?
errm *unpromote?
I can get no liveleak vids to work here at all, I get nothing. Not a grey loading bar, not a window that wont work, just pure nothing. Anything with liveleak just gets a big blank space and zippady do dah there. I can right click and click on settings to see the flash player options, but other than that I can never see anything.
Not sure what fixed for you Burd, mines still all busted. I'm using Vista and Firefox atm, but it started back when I was still using XP so /shrug.
@RadHazG I don't know either. I didn't change anything on my end. Give me a link to one that isn't working for you.
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