Saturday, August 25, 2012

YouTube Error "video player is too small"

How to fix embedded youtube error "video player is too small"?

Youtube seems to have recently sabotaged sites that have smaller sized video players. On many videos (although not all) when you click play on the embedded youtube player, it stop and just says "video player is too small". if you go to full screen first before trying to play and play it will work. It seemed like some of the videos were VEVO videos on youtube. Is there any way to fix this without making the video player size bigger?
http://www.listen4good.com is where it is giving these errors on many of the videos when you click play.

Additional Details

Gave up and changed the size of the video player. It was 325x200 before, but I messed around with the size and it seemed like the minimum (for the VEVO videos at least) was 400 width, 225 height. Annoying, but that's what you get for relying on 3rd party sites.
3 months ago

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

YouTube has recently changed their terms and conditions regarding the minimum size of embedded players. The minimum is now 200 x 200, as described here : http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/03/minimum-embeds-200px-x-200px.html

The individual websites will have to increase the size of the player to avoid this error. Unfortunately it does not look like there is another way to avoid it.

Source(s):

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/03/minimum-embeds-200px-x-200px.html
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Other Answers (2)

  • If your are using google chrome go to the wrench, click history, click clear browser,Obliterate the following items from click 4 weeks or the beginning of time. It work for me, now my videos are playing. For firefox I don't know but I am having the same problem with it but I'm sure it's the same type of solution. I hope this helps you.
    I think it might have to do with pop-ads vevo and other videos have ads that come on before video, not sure if this is the problem or not, might want to check your pop-up option on chrome, etc after you clear out your history.
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  • face it, faceblock sucks.
    33% 1 Vote
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