Saturday, June 29, 2013

Fix for Youtube error: 'This video is currently unavailable' - Ubuntu Chromium

Thankfully, this one's an easy fix and will presumably apply to other browsers and operating systems, as well.

I've been using Chromium as my browser for a while and everything has been great until recently, when some youtube videos wouldn't play reliably and instead would show the error:
This video is currently unavailable.
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This is apparently caused by being enrolled in Youtube's HTML5 video trial. You can enroll/unenroll from the program by visiting this link.

I had forgotten I was even using HTML5 video, so I never even considered this could be the problem. Once I unenrolled, everything works fine again. Of course, YMMV.
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2 comments:

  1. Genuine ReportAugust 2, 2013 at 2:55 AM

    Thanks for your suggetions. I had face this problem in you tube. Your post is very useful for me. Thanks again

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  2. UnknownOctober 30, 2013 at 7:38 PM

    Damn. I'm having the same problem (and in Firefox), but that link says I'm not enrolled in the trial.

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