It looks like Youtube switched their playlist embeds to be iframe only. As VS as it stands now it doesn't look like we can embed playlists from youtube anymore. I've tried with no luck in the embed being accepted here.

yeah what geo said. To clarify, the youtube interface only does iframe embeds now. There has to be a workaround?

I'm really fed up with the youtube interface. It's like they put an idiot in charge of design, and a bigger idiot in charge of coding it.

Without giving it much thought, I'd say use a template and insert your own playlist ID.

Template:

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/$PLAYLIST_ID?version=3&hl=en_GB&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/$PLAYLIST_ID?version=3&hl=en_GB&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

Now, replace $PLAYLIST_ID with a proper ... playlist ID. It's all the tokens following "PL" in the YouTube URL. So in your case: 854408FFE7149199

I just tried it on this old playlist of mine and it seems to work just fine.

Edit: I might as well post the code in question right now:

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/854408FFE7149199?version=3&hl=en_GB&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/854408FFE7149199?version=3&hl=en_GB&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

And test it right here:



Yay, it works.

Thanks for this^ @radx I have tried this.

I can embed this code into a comment (just did). But when I put the original embed--provided by Utube for this playlist--into the "Submit Video" box and hit Submit I still get the Invalid error.

I just tried placing your template into a submit box and siftbot appears to have been able to read it. I never tried submitting the object type before, I'll try this method next time.

Thanks again for your help.

Have you tested the embed code I provided for that particular playlist? Works just fine, I tried it earlier.

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/854408FFE7149199?version=3&hl=en_GB&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/854408FFE7149199?version=3&hl=en_GB&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

Thanks, @radx. Now that we know they just don't work anymore, we've modified the submission form so you can use a YouTube playlist URL or iframe embed code and it will be converted to a valid non-iframe embed.

That's cheating, @lucky760.

>> ^radx:

That's cheating, @lucky760.


It's not cheating--if you control the rules of the game.

So. A successful resolution for all! Yea!

Great to have that fixed! *quality

Awarding Boise_Lib with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by geo321.