What is required for YouTube embedding?

I have gone through all of the YouTube embed issue threads and have found a lot of suggestions on making it work, but I still get the Video Upload failed. This has happened with several videos, and is not affected by the poster disabling embedding. the URL is correctly formatted. NO white space. This has happened on two fresh installs on the same shared web host through GoDaddy (I know, my client wn't leave them). GoDaddy says all of the appropriate ports are open, but they will not allow FFMPEG. Is FFMPEG required for YouTube embedding?

I am using godaddy, no issues with youtube embeds.

I did notice that I would have to wait a while after the video was uploaded to youtube before it would allow me to embed. I know it's a long shot, but is it possible that your users are trying to embed freshly uploaded content?

Hey, thanks for the response.

The site is still in development for my client. I've tried embedding new videos and videos that have been in my YouTube favorites going on 3 years now, and each and every one fails. Any video file upload fails as well (we're going strictly with YouTube embedding, but it may be cause by the same thing).

How can there be so many instances of YouTube embedding failing and BoonEx expects us to buy the software to remove their links? DOes embedding work int he paid version I wonder?Is there some magic update that I missed somewhere along the road? I see commercial solutions in the Market, but why should I have to pay to make an out of the box feature work?

Pretty pathetic.