I recently heard from two customers who are seeing “Error 153 Video play configuration error”. I have an HTMLViewer for playing an embedded YouTube video. The issue seems to be Windows-related, and more specifically build number 26100 on Windows 11. I tried to update my Windows machine to this but cannot get past build 23something. I searched online and see 26100 is rolling out slowly to only a few users at a time, so I cannot confirm this as I cannot update to it. My version of Windows is playing the videos just fine (Mac too)
Has anyone updated to version 10.0.26100? Maybe if you have, can you test it out?
I’m looking for any alternatives that may help. I thought of using a MoviePlayer to play the URL, but I think that is looking for an actual movie file and cannot play via YT URL
I’ll look into this. Problem is that I can’t seem to update my Windows machine to this build, so I wouldn’t have a way to test it other than posting a sample project here first others to test for me
I, too, just got the 26100 update and am willing to help. If the YouTube link is something you can share, please post a sample project here (extract and isolate the problem in a separate, new project). You don’t have to compile anything.
I’m interested in this problem, but have been working to migrate videos to my own hosting. Some of our colleagues have experience setting up a CDN if you’re interested in that route too (i.e. expecting high worldwide demand). There are a plethora of issues around YouTube that make it difficult to use for small commercial applications.
I’ve been contemplating an alternative to YouTube and have been considering Vimeo. I’m not sure if switching to Vimeo or other video host would help with this Windows version issue, but I like how I can have more control over the player in Vimeo (such as preventing the ability to copy the video URL), which is something YT lacks
IMHO the biggest issue with using YouTube embedded in an app (technical stuff aside) is that they are getting increasingly aggressive about advertising, and you don’t want your users to have to sit through an ad.
For me, that makes the annual Vimeo subscription well worthwhile.
Obviously your own hosting gives you far more control, but you’ll also need to create your own html player and manage codec support via operating system, dynamic bitrate and resolution support based on throughput detection, so there are significant engineering challenges to overcome if you want to do it right.
Another option is to include the videos in your application bundle. I’ve done that too, using Quicktime for MacOS and WMV for Windows.
Problem with this is that I have over 120 videos with a total size of 400+ GB
I am testing out Vimeo as a potential alternative. Is there a trick to get this to work (embedded into desktop app) on Windows? I get a Player error on my Windows 11 build version 22631
Hmm, thanks for testing this Wayne. I wonder if it could be something else on the customers’ computers that’s preventing the vids from playing
@SteveP - is that the Vimeo sample I sent this afternoon, or the YouTube one from this morning? If it’s the Vimeo one, it could just be that I set something up wrong. Worked on Mac though
