found out the difference between the video's the working video's have a video uri in the form of: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=NNaPidghdzM&t=vjVQa1PpcFOa3F2uNEZhSQxx8dl1YNsF1IrqJuip_X8%3D&fmt=18 while the broken ones have one like this: http://www.youtube.com/v/BNvjXx1hl60?f=videos&c=ytapi-GNOME-Totem-444fubtt-1&d=Aa_GPZt8t1WjXJl-QnyunkwO88HsQjpE1a8d1GxQnGDm&app=youtube_gdata
the first one results in a normal video file being returned while the second one results in the youtube media player (swf file) being returned unfortunatly http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=BNvjXx1hl60&t=Aa_GPZt8t1WjXJl-QnyunkwO88HsQjpE1a8d1GxQnGDm&fmt=18 does not work one last note youtube-dl was able to download the file but opening the link probided by youtube-dl -g in chrome did result in a 403 -- Unable to play video from "Youtube plugin" results https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs