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YouTube "this video cannot be played"

both me and my friend are getting
YouTube "this video cannot be played" on some videos
What is causing this? is there a fix?
I can supply links to a video that doesn't play
Any ideas
Cheers

That may be due to your region..some YouTube videos are not allowed in some countries due to copywrite laws or censorship. If the same thing is happening on two different phones, likely it is not your phone that is the problem.
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rschenck said:
That may be due to your region..some YouTube videos are not allowed in some countries due to copywrite laws or censorship. If the same thing is happening on two different phones, likely it is not your phone that is the problem.
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its not a region thing, the video play on the pc but not android

Link or search term?

its not my taste but here is a link
http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4md6a223m...e.com/watch?v=pa14VNsdSYM&v=pa14VNsdSYM&gl=GB
mostly my friends choice of pop music is not allowed

This is an option that YouTube gives content uploaders when posting videos. It's a specific option that goes some thing like "Disallow viewing content on mobile devices"
The reason this is done is because ads can't be played on Youtube mobile (whether browser or app) so they don't want to give you access to the video. The fact that it's mostly pop music makes sense, because recording labels and such will want to monetize their content, and mobile users represent a revenue loss.
The only way around it is to view the video through your browser while switched to a desktop user-agent.

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This is an option that YouTube gives content uploaders when posting videos. It's a specific option that goes some thing like "Disallow viewing content on mobile devices"
The reason this is done is because ads can't be played on Youtube mobile (whether browser or app) so they don't want to give you access to the video. The fact that it's mostly pop music makes sense, because recording labels and such will want to monetize their content, and mobile users represent a revenue loss.
The only way around it is to view the video through your browser while switched to a desktop user-agent.
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Cheers
I told my friend it probably had to do with 'advertising revenue' and 'control'.
Is there an easy way for her to view these videos? (or should i tell her to get a better taste in music )

Like I said, basically the only way is to watch it through "desktop Youtube".
Since we have Flash support, you can download an alternate browser like Dolphin Browser that lets you switch user agents and view the video from the full site.
There are also hacked browser.apk's out there with stuff like built-in user agent switching, 8 tabs etc.
Hope that helped.

had this problem works now

YouTube/flash issues within browser

So I use stock browser/ICS browser+ to surf. And watching embedded YouTube videos within websites is a nightmare. I have STICK IT! App or even YouTube app so I'd have no problem using those but to even get the "share" button accessible I have to click play which causes a big lag and then im frantically trying to click share, which usually doesn't work. If I just let it play and then click fullscreen within the site it lags and usually freezes and blacks out screen and doesn't play
To add, I have sites loaded as "desktop" by default.
Usually what I end up doing is looking at video title and trying to find it myself on the YouTube app.
What are your guys' thoughts on playing embedded YouTube videos? Lately its been so frustrating.
EDIT: I forgot what the final straw was that had me post on here.....after the you tube video freezes or bugs out, the browser bugs and wont load a page until I reboot xoom, even if I end task in manager
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Dyelon said:
So I use stock browser/ICS browser+ to surf. And watching embedded YouTube videos within websites is a nightmare. I have STICK IT! App or even YouTube app so I'd have no problem using those but to even get the "share" button accessible I have to click play which causes a big lag and then im frantically trying to click share, which usually doesn't work. If I just let it play and then click fullscreen within the site it lags and usually freezes and blacks out screen and doesn't play
To add, I have sites loaded as "desktop" by default.
Usually what I end up doing is looking at video title and trying to find it myself on the YouTube app.
What are your guys' thoughts on playing embedded YouTube videos? Lately its been so frustrating.
EDIT: I forgot what the final straw was that had me post on here.....after the you tube video freezes or bugs out, the browser bugs and wont load a page until I reboot xoom, even if I end task in manager
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Try reinstalling flash on your xoom. Just go to the play store and look up "Flash". You should see something like "Adobe Flash". Uninstall it, and then reinstall it.
Hope that helps.

Direct streaming from vimeo to chromecast

Direct streaming to Chromecast without using the tab mirror option
1) First find you favorite vimeo URL
for example: I choose this http://vimeo.com/69627704
2) Go to http://keepvid.com/ (This service and other like it can resolve URL from other video site too, not just vimeo)
3) paste in the vimeo address and hit download. You will be presented with 2 links obviously choose the 720p one if possible. Right click on it and copy url it should be something really long like this http://pdl.vimeocdn.com/18706/952/1...n=1375283992_18627ba2bd4d1204fdaacfc695607cc9
4) go to http://googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ (I take no credit for this site whomever did it was great)
5) Drop down activity type to HTML5 video play back and paste in the really long URL
6) Hit play (the video should play now, but ignore it and scroll down fast)
7) YOU have to scroll down fast to the bottom on the page and hit the name of your chromecast fast (then your TV will go black screen for a bit seems like a long time 5 secs, then it should play on your TV).
I believe this method work with other video service too as long as you can get their true URL, basically you just need an mp4 file or something URL

Vimeo is already working on an app. It appears that once the SDK goes out of preview there will be a whole glut of casting apps.

Just found the method to work with putlocker as well. When playing putlocker video, to the bottom right it allow you to "download" the video, I just right click and copy the link and past it directly to step 4 above. And it works

I combined http://googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ with an apache instance on my macbook air to natively stream an .mp4 to the chromecast, no transcoding or webrtc.

Can the video be paused / resumed?
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even 720 tab casting is good with my setup but for some reason i couldn't get OP solution to work smooth enough. it pauses rather than stutters.

cmstlist said:
Can the video be paused / resumed?
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Yep there is a set of control at the bottom when you click on the chromecast to activate it. You can pause stop volume... I been having good luck with multiple video providers... Best of luck to all until we can get official support. The trick is all about the true url of the streaming video and the github website still wondering who made that site. I am trying to study the code, but I am not white listed so it is limited
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sort of off topic question:
does it cast the highest resolution available when used natively? for example youtube, does it send 1080 when the video is available in 720 and 1080? i hope they would offer more bitrate/resolution settings in the future.
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mannequin said:
sort of off topic question:
does it cast the highest resolution available when used natively? for example youtube, does it send 1080 when the video is available in 720 and 1080? i hope they would offer more bitrate/resolution settings in the future.
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From what I see, as long as your source from Internet has 1080p then yeah. This is direct streaming, so it work like those YouTube 1080p video directly to Chromecast. However I think you would need pretty good Internet for that. I always have trouble with smooth 1080p streaming even on computer.
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python2121 said:
I combined http://googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ with an apache instance on my macbook air to natively stream an .mp4 to the chromecast, no transcoding or webrtc.
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Sounds very cool, care to share how you did it?

pmgreen said:
Sounds very cool, care to share how you did it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388915

I know this is a really old post but does this still work or is there an alternative?
Nothing appears under "Select a device to launch this activity"

Flatuglance said:
I know this is a really old post but does this still work or is there an alternative?
Nothing appears under "Select a device to launch this activity"
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No, it doesn't work any more. Google disabled all of these unofficial casting apps by introducing a "whitelist" of allowed apps in their August firmware update. That's one of the reasons why we've dubbed it the Google CrippledCast in our house.

DJames1 said:
No, it doesn't work any more. Google disabled all of these unofficial casting apps by introducing a "whitelist" of allowed apps in their August firmware update. That's one of the reasons why we've dubbed it the Google CrippledCast in our house.
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...and @Kyonz developed KyoCast to have a custom whitelist, and Team Eureka released Eureka-ROM which lets you use Google's whitelist, Team Eureka's whitelist (which allows things like AllCast, fling and a few other third-party apps), or a completely custom list of your own.
Of course all of that requires root, which isn't possible for newer Chromecasts...

you can use curl to play video directly on chromecast
If you have whitelisted device (via Kyocast/ EurekaROM) you can play supported video formats using curl directly to chromecast.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://<your_chromecast_ipaddress>:8008/apps/Fling -X POST -d "<your_video_link>"
where <your_video_link> is the video link from internet.
<your_chromecast_ipaddress> is the ip address of your chromecast

Still no direct Chromecast support in the Vimeo player, but if you have Plex, the Vimeo channel in Plex works with the Chromecast.

New Google OTA 14975

So google silently pushed out a update without putting it in their blog first (strange), but I thought id make a thread for people to post noticeable changes and such. So far from my searching, ive found:
Better TV output detection (probably to fix the black screen bug people have reported)
Updated netflix & eureka_shell binary
Still does not fully use V2 API, so V1 apps still work
I am guessing this was just a patch fix build. Let me know what you guys notice.

doesn't matter as device still refuses to join network.
edit: odd. ran CCast app on pc. booted up straight away. what ever works i guess.

It now supports audio when casting entire screen. Not very high quality.

I find full screen casting better than tab casting. Text are sharper and focused compared to tab casting. Watched a 720p movie on full screen... No sync issues. Casting full screen notification hides behind video player, when player uses full screen mode.
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Hi everyone, from that my chromecast got the new update is not able to play netflix, does anyone has the same problem?

ddggttff3 said:
So google silently pushed out a update without putting it in their blog first (strange), but I thought id make a thread for people to post noticeable changes and such. So far from my searching, ive found:
Better TV output detection (probably to fix the black screen bug people have reported)
Updated netflix & eureka_shell binary
Still does not fully use V2 API, so V1 apps still work
I am guessing this was just a patch fix build. Let me know what you guys notice.
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I got this update like a week before.
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Vget now chromecast compatible..

Get it whilst its hot.
Stream all those mp4 clips of 'nature' and documentaries with ease.. Definitely not porn. No.

Good stuff. :good:

Bonus! sky sports web videos now playback in non flash mode.. If u wait a second the vget icon appears top left of video.. Pleased
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This is so full of win it's not even funny.
Works great.

Tried and works great. Streams seem to be more stable than with both Avia or BubbleUPnP for some reason.

So, on which sites would this be useful? I tried it on amazon prime, it didn't work. I wanted to see if it would work on byutv.org, it didn't work. Any suggestions on where I might use this?

primetime34 said:
So, on which sites would this be useful? I tried it on amazon prime, it didn't work. I wanted to see if it would work on byutv.org, it didn't work. Any suggestions on where I might use this?
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You can use it to watch clips on hulu.com (not plus) and if you like searching archives (I do, it's an acquired taste) there's a ton of stuff on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/dick_tracy_detctive (be sure to use the mp4 link in the table)
It's jumpy, it's cheesy but it's the original **** Tracy.
Some good and all but lost stuff in there.
https://archive.org/details/EyesInTheNight720p1942
I'm sure you'll run across things for your tastes at other sites if you're not interested in that sort of thing. There's a lot of gems squirreled away on the net.

I'm just not getting how to use VGet with Chrome to cast an internet stream. Can someone explain it to me?
I have the VGet downloader extension and the VGet casting extension installed in Chrome on my PC.
I see a VGet icon on my toolbar.
If I start an internet video stream (like the **** Tracy example), I can can click on the VGet icon and it gives me the options to download or cast to Chromecast.
I click on Chromecast, and says it's searching for a DLNA renderer on my network (why does it need one?).
I have to turn on an Android based DLNA client like BubbleUpNP on my Android table, or it won't find anything and it won't proceed. My TV DLNA clients on Samsung or Roku aren't detected.
If I select my Android tablet as the DLNA renderer, I get a small VGet play window that looks like its trying to play something, but nothing happens. It never asks me anything about which Chromecast to use, and my Chromecast shows nothing. The BubbleUpNP client on the Android tablet shows a blank screen.
What's supposed to happen? I don't quite understand the relationship between VGet and the DLNA renderer and the Chromecast.

I'm using the vGet app for Android. On that, if you turn off desktop/Flash mode and turn on Chromecast, select an mp4, it'll cast. With desktop/Flash mode on, you get to choose - Stream (to your selected Android media player, MoboPlayer is good here), Download, or DLNA.
I didn't know that they made a desktop Chrome extension.
PS - when I said it works great - I'm using it with low quality videos that don't look worse via vGet/casting vs. any other methods I use to watch those, but it's very convenient so that's great for me.

VGet appears to work for the Webisodes Network website which is nice.
Would be even nicer if vGet had a functional back button in their internal browser. If I navigate into a site and then press the Android back button, it just bumps me out of the app.
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cmstlist said:
VGet appears to work for the Webisodes Network website which is nice.
Would be even nicer if vGet had a functional back button in their internal browser. If I navigate into a site and then press the Android back button, it just bumps me out of the app.
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Odd. Must be device or Android version dependent. I get the previous page.
The problem with the app that I noticed last night is that once my phone has gone to sleep, it sometimes forgets that it's casting and remote control is lost.
Are you seeing any of that?
PS - thanks for the tip on Webisodes.

Could be version dependent. This is a Nexus 7 2012 running 4.4. The bad back button may be a quirk of the new Chromium Web view.
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Eyeonanime.com tried, tested, and verified to work.

Tried a few more experiments with the PC Chrome extension and with the Android app to answer my own questions about vGet since nobody else seems to have the answers.
As far as I can tell, the vGet extension for PC Chrome does not currently support the Chromecast, although it uses the Chromecast icon. When I click the cast icon and it prompts for a "DLNA renderer", it's looking for a playback client. But it doesn't detect the Chromecast as a valid client, nor does it detect my Roku (even if it's running the DLNA client), nor my Samsung Blu-Ray player (even if it's running the DLNA client). The only thing it detects is Android-based DLNA clients on the network, like BubbleUPnP on my tablet - and it can't cast successfully to that client either, although it tries.
I can get the Android vGet app to work and cast a stream like the **** Tracy video to the Chromecast, but it's really flaky. Most of the time I just get the cast icon in the middle of the screen on the Chromecast when vGet connects, and no stream starts. A few times I got sound but no video. It takes a couple of tries to get a proper video stream to start, and as soon as it does, vGet crashes Android immediately, causing a reboot - but the stream keeps playing on the Chromecast, so it's obviously receiving it directly. If I attempt to restart vGet after Android reboots, it just crashes and reboots Android again immediately as long as the Chromecast continues to play. Only after I turn off the Chromecast will vGet start again without crashing the Android tablet.

Too bad vGet on Android isn't more robust. I'd guess it cares about the version or something. I've used it quite a bit already without those issues. Hopefully they'll fix it.

Vget forma Android is great. But only with DLNA devices.

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Vget forma Android is great. But only with DLNA devices.
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My mileage is the exact opposite.
On vGet Android, I uncheck desktop/Flash, select Cast, then tap the desired mp4 link and I'm in business.
My TV tends to suck at dealing with DLNA video.
On my TV, I'm stuck with this -
Compatible files: DLNA-supported file types and extensions are listed below.
Music – MP3 (.mp3)
Photos – JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
Video – MPEG1 (.mpg, .mpeg) MPEG2 (.mpg, .mpeg, .trp, .ts, .tp) DIVX (.mpg, .mpeg, .avi)
MPEG4 AVC (.mpg, .mpeg)
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Between vGet, LocalCast, and RealPlayer Cloud, I'm pretty much done with DLNA.
It's fabulous when it works though, I agree.

And now it's US$5 for vGet.

EarlyMon said:
And now it's US$5 for vGet.
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Since when? I have it for free, so if you got it free you dont have to buy a premium version or anything?
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impulse101 said:
Since when? I have it for free, so if you got it free you dont have to buy a premium version or anything?
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Since now.
If you update to 0.4.3 or newly install it, you get two weeks free, after that it's $5. I understand that one can earn more free time through a new referral plan.
0.4.2 was the last free version.
People responded with unhappiness in the Play Store comments, the dev replied -
schibum February 27 said:
We are truly sorry for those that cannot afford to spend a few bucks and have no Facebook or real live friends to refer. But basically it's simple: Developing and maintaining an App costs money. This money has to come from somewhere. For some very popular Apps, Ads may be able to pay it for you . They cannot for vGet - we tried that initially.
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I got the price by asking in another thread.
It's not listed in the Play Store - it simply says that an in-app purchase is added.