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 Yesterday, the Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes Amara page was created (by me actually, but it doesn't show because I had forgotten to sign in) by adding the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9bKjzzqPI URL in Subtitle Videos.

However, this YouTube video was in turn a reupload of the low-resolution ogv file offered in https://archive.org/details/lady_vanishes, which I made for the sole purpose of having the YouTube software sync an existing transcript: I wanted the Amara page to first pump the English subs from the YT version, but eventually to stream the higher-res MPEG4 file also offered in the same archive.org page.

So I added its https://archive.org/download/lady_vanishes/The_Lady_Vanishes.mp4 URL to

the Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes Amara page, and made it primary. It does show as primary in the URLs tab, but the player continues to stream the YouTube video nonetheless.

Is there a way to make the player stream the

https://archive.org/download/lady_vanishes/The_Lady_Vanishes.mp4

file instead of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9bKjzzqPI?

Note: I'm creating a new topic even though there is already a BIG TRAP. "Make primary" doesn't work anymore one, because there are differences. In fact back then (from Aug 11, 2012 until Oct 22, 2012), the issue affected all pages where an added URL had been made primary, including, retroactively, those where the change had been done long before Aug 11, 2012. Fortunately, this time, the issue does not seem to be so all-encompassing.

For some reason, it's preferring the youtube url.  

I added the ogv url from the archive.org site, and made it primary and that seems to work.  It the quality OK for you?

Thank you! That's great. Odd that the software should have a YouTube bias :D

 

Errh actually, an odd thing is happening:

The ogv file is now playing

• in the main page http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ssAz0m65pU59/info/,
• in the English subtitles page http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ssAz0m65pU59/en/635441/,
• in the legacy editor for editing the English subtitles

BUT if I move to the beta new editor, it shows the YouTube video: see attached dated screenshot. I've tried the new editor twice.