Good afternoon. I am having problems with Proclaim: I used to be able to upload videos without any issues, but now they won't load. I followed the instructions to activate the new Proclaim player, but when I try to do so, the application restarts. Also, when I try to insert a YouTube video using a link, I get a message saying that it cannot be played.

  1. Hi you can't play YouTube videos on proclaim.

  2. Are you on a PC, ? There has been an issue with video players, it stems from Microsoft's abandonment of Windows Media Player. The devs at have added a new video player. It is under Settings>General -- YMMV -- It may help if you enable it, but all it did for one of our computers is lock Proclaim up so it isn't usable. It works on one of our PCs, one of our PCs didn't need to enable it. I've submitted a problem (Case #00984507) but no one seems to be in a hurry to contact me -- used to be the most responsive tec company around -- Perhaps it is time to allow PC users the option to use their default media player -- like VBS.

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    , here is a link to a post and thread I started on showing YouTube videos on Proclaim. https://faithlife.com/posts/6081143 Though not ideal, you can make it work. In that thread there is an app mentioned called ClipGrab. That is a neat trick but a bit shady. I've done a deep dive on what exactly you can show regarding YouTube videos legally. Pretty much showing YouTube videos that are not your own, or not someone's who has given you explicit permission to use it, is taboo. Fergit about it. So, using and showing YouTube videos in a public setting is an area of "proceed at your own risk" kind of thing. While it is easy to garner licensing for the audio content of videos (like for songs), the visual content is not straightforward at all. I hope this helps some. Blessings
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    Notes on using a YouTube video: We wanted to feature a YouTube video in our warmup countdown and I thought I would post up how we accomplished it. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought. Linking the video proved easy enough, add Web Page (service item) and then pasting the YouTube link yielded a link with autoplay=1. Yay! But it inserted with a length of 15 seconds and wouldn't budge. So, 15 seconds played then the 1:00 countdown. The length of the video didn't come through or something, so it just put the default in there. To make it play the full length (2:47) we selected "show each slide for" then put in 2:47. It worked! I have my fingers crossed that an add doesn't pop up. I used a link that appears to not be monetized, so I hope that works. I noted somewhere in the process that links to Vimeo won't work. That probably needs fixed to make sure that ads never pop up.
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