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I have uploaded a four part video and finished subtitle files for them, but the last two videos cannot be seen. I get two error messages:

1. Playback on other websites [than YouTube] has been deactivated by the owner of the video.

2. This videotype is not supported by the Amara Embedder. You can check if your hosting service offers HTML5 video resources.

As a newcomer I am not sure that I understand this. But it seems to suggest that the cause of the problem is the video owner's settings for these two videos. He is a newcomer too and is also bewildered about this. One setting that seems relevant is YouTube's privacy settings, and as to that all four videos are set to be public.

The four videos of which only the last two ones make trouble are found here:

http://www.amara.org/en/videos/kaRAbwgEqWfp/info/cynthia-bourgeault-ways-of-the-heart-intro/

http://www.amara.org/en/videos/LbHh1OFhYshJ/info/cynthia-bourgeault-the-ways-of-the-heart/ 

http://www.amara.org/en/videos/bZmhqQpxDMJ5/info/cynthia-bourgeault-ways-of-the-heart-talk-3/ 

http://www.amara.org/en/videos/2bw6RnNFVpSy/info/cynthia-bourgeault-the-ways-of-the-heart-talk-4/

Can anybody tell me what settings on YouTube could cause these two videos to be inaccessible for Amara?

Greetings,

Soeren Frederiksen

Dear Claude Almansi

Thanks for the very quick reply. I will get the owner to look at that. Hope that works. 

Thanks,

Soeren Frederiksen

Dear Claude Almansi

On second thought, I don't think I understand. The two videos in question are actually fully public, since I am not registered as a member of any group there and I can see the videos on YouTube. So this can not be the cause of the invisibility of the two videos. Then I wonder what you mean by "embedding must be allowed". Does "embedding" cover more than "a members-only private group" setting? What sort of setting on YouTube corresponds to "embedding"? Can you suggest where the owner might find and make a setting that makes the videos embedded? 

Thanks,

Soeren Frederiksen

Dear Claude,

Thank you for that suggestion. It may well be the cause of the trouble with these two videos. I'll contact the owner and try this solution out.

I have researched embedding in YouTube tutorials following your suggestion, and, for the record, there is at least one other embed setting that may be relevant here. The one you mention is a setting for a particular video. Another embed setting to check out is a general rule regarding videos one owns. One may set up a rule that restricts embedding generally or specifically to particular sites. This is from a page called Restrict Embedding at: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6301625?hl=en

I'll contact the owner and try these things out. But I suspect there are many more settings that may cause the trouble. One of the error messages seems to say that the videos are not in HTML5, if I understand it correctly, and this might perhaps also have caused the trouble. But I have not found any material that throw light on this.

The URLs of the YouTube videos that causes trouble and their titles are:

Cynthia Bourgeault, Ways of the Heart, Talk #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Axy11pe5Y&t=1116s

Cynthia Bourgeault, "The Ways of the Heart", talk #4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUDSEZJu8c&t=315s

Thanks,

Soeren

Dear Claude

This is brilliant! That seems to settle the question once and for all. I'll contact the owner and try it out. 

Thanks a lot,

Soeren