Janie of Colloquium emailed me yesterday regarding my post about my personally-selected YouTube Videos. She said she was not able to view them because there was an error in each video: it says it is no longer available.
I’ve seen that one before. The first time in my own video. I got worried, thinking if I violated YouTube’s Terms of Service (TOS). Was the video taken down due to copyright infringement or copyright claim by other parties? I didn’t think so. Fortunately, the (only) video in my account was not deleted. So how did I fix the error?
I didn’t. It was on YouTube side. My instinct told me to press F5 to reload the page before I make a drastic move in my blog. Luckily, the trick worked.
So I emailed Janie back saying that it is normal when the page with embedded YouTube video is open for a long time. The clip is not gone, removed or deleted. All she has to do is refresh the page and the video will re-appear.
She thanked me for letting her know because she didn’t “realize that You Tube timed out like that.” to quote her.
I want to thank Janie for pointing this out. She inspired me to write a post because it seems to me that this issue looks like a big deal to a concerned viewer. I hope that this post somehow reaches YouTube so they can fix the annoying “Video is no longer available” error that makes their members and users worry.
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I’m having to have learned something new! I did open the page, then got distracted . . . and when I came back, no video! Glad it was an easy fix.
oops . . .that should read “happy” to have learned something new.
You would think all of that money that Google has put into YouTube, they wouldn’t have these minor yet irritating issues. I am gonna need Sergey and Larry to get it together.
I’ve observed this issue too. But I didn’t thought to write a post about it. Smart girl
nice…and don’t stop blogging. It’s part of what keeps you feeling Lucky!
I have litterally tried everything. i have:
unisntalled and reinstalled Flashplayer 3 times,
unistalled all other players from my computer,
reinstalled jave 5 times,
downloaded all windows updates,
removed all firewalls,
enabled javascripting,
reinstalled display driver,
i keep getting an error on pege in the bottom left hand corner of the page and i still ge tthe same “sorry this video is no longer available”
None of the above suggestions work, it seems it’s a youtube problem, not a coding problem. They need to fix it.
Read answers for this error below. There’s part 1 and part 2.
http://www.techxiety.com/techxiety/2008/06/rectification-for-were-sorry-this-video-is-no-longer-available.html
yeh it also sometimes happens with me actually the videos is not gone or deleted the problem i detected was that my server was limiting my downloads like i could’t download anything .exe .mp3 .zip anything we say so i was’t also able to see videos. the problem is gone since i replace my ISP.
Typical of YouTube to be full of bugs. They pull videos all the time for some inane violation of their TOS. You used to be able to drive decent traffic to your site with YouTube but they are quickly becoming unusable…