Youtube says "This video is currently unavailable"

Solution 1:

I'm using Chromium Version 28.0.1500.52 Ubuntu 12.10 (28.0.1500.52-0ubuntu1.12.10.3) and faced with same issue. To solve issue you need to remove current set of chromium codecs:

sudo apt-get remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

And them install similar, but extra package:

sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

YouTube trouble will be removed and video will be played.

So, common solution leads to update chrome/chromium codecs.

You can also be faced with proposition to install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra while removing chromium-codecs-ffmpeg. Just apply suggestion to install package with extra version.

Additionally, will be useful to update current version of chromium browser to take newest version:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Thanks

Solution 2:

You can test to see if it's a problem with Chromium's built-in Flash player by joining YouTube's HTML5 trial, which will switch you over to YouTube's new HTML5 video player. If the videos work then, something is messed up with your installation of Chromium/Flash player. Try reinstalling it. If they still don't work, it may be a problem on YouTube's end or your ISP's end or somewhere in between. Could you comment with an example of a video that's giving you this error?

Also, does this appear to be a YouTube error, or an error that you're receiving from Flash/Chromium?