User blog:Ihengheng/Youtube video on your profile not playing? Here's a workaround!

Well, I have noticed some of the users over here are having problems with their video not playing on their profiles (The error message being Youtube player...). If you have this problem too, here is a way to fix it (not really a fix, but a workaround).

Things you require: Steps: I tested it on 2 identical videos, one in MP4 and the other in FLV format. Only the FLV one worked, so maybe this is why some videos do not load because they are MP4.
 * A Youtube account
 * Stable internet connection (because you are going to upload to video yourself)
 * Java (if you are using http://keepvid.com/, which I recommend)
 * 1) Get the link of the video that you want on your profile.
 * 2) Download the video AS A FLV, IF NOT IT WILL NOT WORK. I recommend http://keepvid.com/
 * 3) Upload the video to your profile, make the video "Unlisted", don't make it private because Wikia needs to access the link, also don't make it public to avoid any copyright issues etc unless the video is really yours.
 * 4) Add the link as usual. Eg. if your video link is www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX, copy the part after watch?v= and paste it inside this line in the Youtube player code: |PlaylistURL = embed/XXXXXXXXXXX

Let me know about how it works for you in the comments section. Good Luck!

Ihengheng (talk) 11:56, April 3, 2013 (UTC)