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You Tube Embedded Videos Stopped Playing
We have several trainings where we embedded You Tube Videos. Three weeks ago all of them have quit playing and display the error below. Our LMS Vendor has told us this is a recent change from YouTube and there is nothing they can do. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you know a fix short of opening the video in a separate window (that does not work for us culturally) or going through and replacing the videos.
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I stripped out all of our specific company information and left the slides in. The Storyline file is attached. Thanks for you help.
Do you know if this sample will exhibit the behavior outside of your LMS? Testing here has the videos working and uploading it to my particular LMS also works without issue.
I see you have the videos as web objects rather than regular video embeds. You could experiment with switching the embed approach.
Looking at the HTML in your current setup, the referrerpolicy doesn't seem to be specified in the published output. You could try adding &referrerpolicy=strict-origin-when-cross-origin to the end of the web object's Address string (directly after rel=0). You could also try the other option of changing youtube.com to youtube-nocookie.com in the address.
I suspect you may need to load these tests into your LMS to see whether they actually change any outcomes.
Without an afflicted example, we can't offer much. Have you reviewed options such as those described here?
Methods 1 and 2 are the easiest to check and/or apply. Perhaps check your embed codes in your project and ensure the option referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" is included. It is included by default for new embeds, but maybe you embedded the videos before that was the case.
