{"id":4580,"date":"2016-04-11T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:46:40","slug":"how-to-fix-youtube-html5-player-when-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/how-to-fix-youtube-html5-player-when-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fix YouTube HTML5 Player When Not Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/technology-785742_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/technology-785742_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4817\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because Google has been trying to phase out dependency on Adobe&#8217;s Flash technology in favor of the free, open-source HTML5 standard player, YouTube (owned by Google) has been up to some shady tactics. The transition to HTML5 isn&#8217;t seamless as they may think or trying to force. Theoretically, browsers that do support HTML5 should automatically choose the correct format, but users usually find themselves with broken media experience.<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of typical YouTube video url:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VF5jXrZfuCA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice the query string for the video itself is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?v=VF5jXrZfuCA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So this is what you can try to get the Flash player working again:<\/p>\n<p>Append this query string to your YouTube video:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?nohtml5=False\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it would be something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VF5jXrZfuCA?nohtml5=False<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems the monkeys at YouTube play around with too many query strings and they all do the same thing, or some are just meant to leave you stranded.<\/p>\n<p>There may be YouTube video urls with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?noFlash = true<br \/>\n?flash = flash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or whatever query string, that will revert the dependency back to flash. But in most cases it may break the functionality because those monkeys aren&#8217;t agreeing on a single query string, but rather multiple implemenations or deliberately creating deadends.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, give this a try and see if it works out for you. It does for me (for now, I guess). Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Google has been trying to phase out dependency on Adobe&#8217;s Flash technology in favor of the free, open-source HTML5 standard player, YouTube (owned by Google) has been up to some shady tactics. The transition to HTML5 isn&#8217;t seamless as they may think or trying to force. Theoretically, browsers that do support HTML5 should automatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}