Warning to WordPress.com users

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Warning to WordPress.com users

Postby BarbaraC » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:45 am

If you have a blog on WordPress.com, and if you like to periodically embed YouTube videos, be warned that they're no longer honoring &fmt coding, which is part of the URL that ProShow returns to us when we upload video from it. If you're uploading the video in HD, replace the &fmt=18 (or 22 or 37) with &hd=1, which tells YouTube to run your video in the highest quality you've set it to.

I went nuts this morning trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, none of my Playground videos were showing. When I finally figured it out, I was really, really ticked because, even though I receive newsletters from WordPress, they never once mentioned they were no longer honoring the older codes.

Barbara

EDIT: I went back and forth a bit with one of the WordPress people, and the lowdown on why you MUST change those codes is that the player is not provided by WordPress; rather, YouTube sends the player to WordPress whenever it's called for. They're sending the newest player.
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