My AC Ryan Playon Mini2 HD now does not play Youtube files. Did Youtube changed their API again?
Not only is the youtube inaccessible, the youtube video that I downloaded on my PC in mp4 format (it plays on my PC) does not play from the AC Ryan,
Please help.

Hello,

If you search on the term 'YouTube' here on our forum you will find very many threads with this issue.
This is a general issue at this moment. We have reported this to our developers. You can for now (since you have Mini2) use YouTube XL, this should work. You can use full screen by pressing the 'zoom' button in YouTube XL.

The downloaded movies you have from YouTube most likely has a format settings called: VP6. Some of the YouTube video files has this setting and our Realtek products don't support this. You can confirm this by getting a free software that is called mediainfo and check the files. Let me know if they would not have VP6 as format setting

Best regards,

Here are the details from MediaInfo:

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 227 MiB
Duration : 3mn 10s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 10.0 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-02-03 08:50:27
Tagged date : UTC 2012-02-03 08:50:27
gsst : 0
gstd : 190658
gssd : B4A7D60C3MH1337512176142943
gshh : v18.nonxt3.c.youtube.com

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 3mn 10s
Bit rate : 9 846 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 17.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 214 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.582
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.141
Stream size : 224 MiB (98%)
Tagged date : UTC 2012-02-03 08:50:27

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 3mn 10s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 152 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 180 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 3.45 MiB (2%)
Title : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Encoded date : UTC 2012-02-03 08:50:27
Tagged date : UTC 2012-02-03 08:50:27

A simple workaround for these downloaded files is to quickly re-encode them with Handbrake to a compliant format.

When sites such as YouTube change their formats as the have done, it is more difficult for the players to get updated to play them than any PC.

The fact that they play on your PC is not a real indicator as PC software is a lot more forgiving.