Support for YouTube videos in PowerPoint returns

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Updates for both PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2013, were released on Tuesday (4/8) that reintroduces support for YouTube videos into PowerPoint. The feature goes live on April 15. You need to install the updates listed for your PowerPoint version to be ready.

 

 

History

PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows originally included support for embedding YouTube videos that were in an old format that YouTube no longer supports. As this old format started disappearing from the YouTube service, the support for YouTube videos in PowerPoint started faltering. These changes led us to disable support for inserting online videos from the product because we could not reliably support playing back YouTube videos.

 

What the update brings

Since the time playback of online videos was disabled in PowerPoint, the PowerPoint team has been hard at work to re-enable support for YouTube in a way that is resilient to changes and more robust. For PowerPoint 2013 we now use a browser to host these videos, which provides us the resiliency. This not only means that we can support HTML5 videos but also that we will be able to playback YouTube videos as long as they can playback in any browser. Both PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows are updated to include support for YouTube videos in the newer HTML5 and Shockwave Flash ActionScript 3.0 formats.

 Note: The insert online video option is limited to YouTube support for both PowerPoint 2010 and 2013.

Online Help Topics (available by 4/15)

 

 

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Please try the links again. These all seem to be working now.
  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    thanks
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    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2014
    the links http://office.com/redir/HA104192855.aspx and http://office.com/redir/HA104242567.aspx lead to a 404 page not found
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    May 15, 2014
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    May 31, 2014
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    July 08, 2014
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    July 21, 2014
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    July 30, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2014
    I am using the developer tool and adding movie url and removing watch? etc. but the video still will not play in powerpoint 2013 - other saved videos work (the sample MS video) but not when I create the link using shockwave etc
  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2014
    I have also tried using the Developer method and I still can't videos to play in PowerPoint. I did find a video player in the app store that has worked for the time being. Oddly enough I can insert YouTube videos into Word and they play there. Any idea why?
  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2014
    Hi BFox - yes the insert youtube videos works great in Word. I read there were YouTube vs MS issues but Word seems fine. I have tried to play that video app but when I download it I cannot find it in "MyApps" at all. Unbelievable that I can not embed youtube videos and have to resort to a URL and link out to a different window and back again - very unprofessional. I also found a MS page that said this issue was fixed (april 2014) and to download the updates but again that did nothing. Not sure what to do next?
  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2014
    Same issues with powerpoint. I have both 2010 and 2013 and neither will play shockwave objects. Word will but that doesn't really help. I tried inserting the word doc as an object in the powerpoint and it wouldn't play the video. I have the latest updates on both 2010 and 2013 (which are on different computers, one with Win7 and Win8.1). So it doesn't seem to matter which version or which OS it is on. I'll resort to using a hyperlink. I agree with Janet...very unprofessional and also very irritating.
  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2014
    I get the error "powerpoint can't insert a video from this embed code" in Powerpoint 2013. I attempted to install the fixes. When I do:

    KB2837627 installer says "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system."

    KB2817636 installer says "The update is already installed on this system."

    I continue to get the "powerpoint can't insert a video from this embed code" when using an embed code from Youtube.

    I have 32 bit PowerPoint according to "About Powerpoint" and I used the 32 bit version of the fixes.
  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2014
    Same as Tim. Albeit I have the 64-bit version of 2013. Same messages, and it still doesn't work
  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2014
    Frustrating!
    Installed new "fixes"
    Same problem. Won't play.
  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2014
    We have Dell 380,390, HP 800, 8300
    We only needed patch 2837627 on the Dell's and HP8300. But that patch wouldn't work on the HP 800, the 2817636 worked. My questions are; Why two patches, and any idea why the 2837627 patch wouldn't work with the HP 800? Thanks
  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2014
    As instructed, updated Microsoft Office 2010 to Service Pack 2, then installed 2837579. No success, I still cannot install YouTube embed code into the PPoint 2010 presentation.
  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2015
    Does not work or not anymore.
  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2015
    I Installed both the SP2 and the KB2837579 fix, and still cannot see youtube videos in powerpoint 2010.
    Now the " PowerPoint cannot insert a video from this embed code...." message is gone, and a black square appear, but when trying to play, getting a new message - "The linked file was unavailable and can't be opened".
    Nothing on the web to help with that. any ideas?
  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2015
    I know this is old, but I have the same trouble with the KB updates. I get the error "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system". I tried all of the options (both 32 and 64 bit) even though I know I have the 32 bit version installed. I cannot embed any youtube videos. Has anyone figured out what is wrong here?
  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2015
    Same problem as Seth
  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2015
    I'm having the same problem as the others above. I've tried updating Shockwave, installing all the MS Powerpoint 2013 updates (KB 2837627 and KB2817636 to no avail. Since I teach using PowerPoint, I'm finding this excruciatingly frustrating. Spent most of the day yesterday trying to get this to work on my computer. Does anyone at Microsoft have any idea what is/could be causing this? I've looked at every setting I can think of, started and restarted my computer. Ugh!!
  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2015
    I too have the same message as others have said, i.e. "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system".

    It might be worth Microsoft testing a fix next time before releasing it.
  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2015
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  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2015
    Tried updating shockwave sill no luck with this.
  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2015
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  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2015
    For those of you who get the "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system". I've spent hours trying to fix this issue on a 64x windows OS only to try a last ditch effort of installing the update listed as x32 and it worked. Hours of reading and trial & error only to find a stupid fix like this.
  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2015
    Same problems here....ridiculous
  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2015
    We have been working with Microsoft regarding this issue.

    They have confirmed there is another bug relating to IE11 and Powerpoint. The bug fix is in, but as of today is still in the backlog queue.

    They have given a number of workarounds but none are secure of viable. i.e. run as admin everything, revert to IE9, etc.

    At this moment in time we have to wait to see if / when the fix will come out, but it is in the pipeline.


  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2016
    I noticed that PowerPoint 2010 accepts the standard youtube embed code, but it does not accept the 'privacy-enhanced' embed code, which is identical the first except the domain is youtube-nocookie.com instead of just youtube.com.

    Machine has been patched with 2920812 (which superseded 2880517 which superseded 2837579).

    Is this by design in PowerPoint 2010?
    Is this fixed in 2013 or 2016?