Cannot play video from YouTube through PowerPoint 2013

Anonymous
2013-03-19T19:28:34+00:00

Just tried to "insert" a video from YouTube using two methods: by pasting the "old embed code" and through the YouTube app. When I try to play the video I receive the following error, "To play the selected item, you must install a later version of the Adobe Flash Player. To download the Adobe Flash Player, go to the Adobe website."

The thing is, I have the latest version of flash installed (11.6.602.180). I am running Windows 8 (64-bit). Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me?

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Anonymous
2014-04-16T18:04:33+00:00

Hi All,

We have been hard at work to bring back support for YouTube videos to PowerPoint. We are happy to share that we are now bringing back support for inserting and playing back YouTube videos in PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2013 with the latest updates.

In order to be ready you need to install the following updates listed for your PowerPoint:

Find more details here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/bgp/archive/2014/04/09/support-for-youtube-videos-in-powerpoint-returns.aspx

Thanks,

Amit Mohindra

PowerPoint Team

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-03T17:56:01+00:00

    Good morning all.  

    I did the 'workaround' and modified the embed code coming from YouTube to get this to work back in April.  For example, this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_shHu4lAs (STS-51C Launch IMAX Camera Footage HD) 

    Here is the Embed section from Google Chrome with 'use old embed code' checked:

    <object width="1280" height="720"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Lq_shHu4lAs?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Lq_shHu4lAs?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1280" height="720" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

    Previously, I was able to remove the portion that said "version=3&" from above and get the video to work.  I tried that again today and am also getting the infamous Flash Player version error.  If you check the associated help file (I have Office 2010 myself) the portion specific to "Link to a video file on a web site" has an example where you do click the 'use old embed code' checkbox but the code shown does not include the version= segment.

    I tried removing the entire "?version=3&hl=en_US" segment so that only the web URL was in the embed src tag, and still nothing.  I stripped the code down to just Object and Embed tags and still nothing.  Even further, just to the embed tags and URL, with no modifiers inside the tag other than src= and still nothing.  I verified I had Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.202 installed in IE9 and still no change in PowerPoint 2010 after a reinstallation and application restart.

    This is going to turn into a major issue for some where I work, and getting assistance with it (or trying things out I haven't already done) is appreciated; installing third party applications to fix this issue is not a viable solution.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-03T17:09:28+00:00

    I have the same problem. A couple of months back, I had this issue with YouTube videos not playing, but videos I found using Bing would play. Now Bing videos do not play either. I get the same Adobe Flash message for both. This seems to be a serious problem, and I look forward to hearing about some resolution.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-03T03:11:40+00:00

    Have the same proble...

    Hope this problem could be slove soon.

    Does anyone know what make this problem? Flash Player? Or PowerPoint?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-06-01T05:08:11+00:00

    There seem to be NEW changes and this method no longer works. I don't have a fix as yet.

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