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Those videos work for me. The error message posted says that there is an error in the video player configuration the OP is using. I don't know the player or the configuration, but it seems to be a local problem to be solved locally.
I think it may have to do that certain videos on Youtube have Geo-blocking and that with embedded videos you get that then. What do you want deleted?
I wanted the post deleted because the original post which I altered, wasn't useful for readers. But since @deb_user responded, I guess it can't be deleted. As @deb_user pointed out, the appearance of the images in post #1 are a local issue I discovered, so I posted before properly investigating the matter.
To expand a little, when members link to a youtube video, the image of the video appears, but I regard it as waste of screen space and would prefer a simple http/https link like this: http://example.com, in the text which readers can use just as effectively to reach the link. I guess there's some technical advantage of the current display preference, but I'm not familiar with it.
On the issue of deleting a post, I wasn't able to find a delete button for the original post whereas in the past I have used such a button to remove a hastily made or redundant post, so my question is: is there way to delete such posts that I may wish to delete for good reason?
EDIT: Well, the delete button has just appeared at the bottom of this post here but it wasn't available on the first few drafts of this post. Is there a timing arrangement for the delete button to appear? Or has something else occurred?
SECOND EDIT: I should have mentioned that despite the grey block link to the youtube video shown in post #1, when I click on it, the video plays normally. It's likely some setting in my firefox and waterfox browsers that is implicated.
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That's the forum functionality where Youtube videos automatically get embedded or something like that.
Do you mean you wish to delete the the preview looking thing after you post?
This is what you mean right?
I wanted to delete my whole post #1 that I originally wrote, and then edited. There was no delete button to do that, at the time I was trying to delete it. I also couldn't delete the image by highlighting it and pressing delete on my keyboard. It was very disconcerting because I lost control of what I wanted to actually say in the forum.
Oh that! That's how the forum software is setup or works(don't know which, but I think the latter as I've seen it on other forums using the same forum software). That after 5 minutes or so normal users can't delete a post or topic anymore, they can then only be edited.
Okay. At this moment, my post #4, written at 17 minutes ago, has a delete button. My post #8 of 6 minutes ago has a delete button. In the past I recall being able to delete posts after longer periods had elapsed too. I understand that deleting a thread starting post which another member has answered can't be deleted.
Thanks for the link to xenforo. It should enable my own links to youtube to be just the URL instead of the embedded format currently common.
Have a look here
appuals.com
Fix: YouTube “Error Code 153” (Player Configuration Error)
“Watch Video on YouTube” with Error Code 153: Video Player Configuration Error appears when a video fails to load inside an embedded or in-app YouTube
appuals.com
Sorry I had removed it, as I thought it's probably not relevant information anymore since it's really old information, from 2016. I'll just share it here again.
