Title: Removing this plugin?
Last modified: February 22, 2017

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# Removing this plugin?

 *  [miguelgaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguelgaton/)
 * (@miguelgaton)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-this-plugin-2/)
 * hello,
 * After some tests we have decided to change this plugin for native Youtube videos.
   The problem is after plugin deactivation old videos are not working.
 * Is it possible to bulk migrate old videos with shortcodes like [jwplayer mediaid
   =”224168″] to the real url?
 * regards,

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 *  [FolioVision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foliovision/)
 * (@foliovision)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-this-plugin-2/#post-8835365)
 * Hi Miguel,
 * You’d need to export via the database. Somewhere in your database there is the
   equivalent from 224168 to i.e. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNLWUQW9_c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNLWUQW9_c)
   for example. You could do a search and replace within the database to swap the
   224168 code for the YouTube ID, i.e. `VqNLWUQW9_c` After that you could use Search
   Regex to swap `[jwplayer mediaid="VqNLWUQW9_c"]` for the YouTube iframe code.
 * JW Player doesn’t really have a self-hosted version any more as you know. Our
   [FV Player Pro](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/) handles
   both self-hosted and Vimeo and YouTube (and S3, Cloudfront, CDN, etc but that’s
   a different story). With FV Player, you’d be able to add a simpler shortcode 
   regex to something like:
 * `[fvplayer src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4gCRuoviw0"]`
 * In the free version, that will get you the iframe. In the pro version, that will
   get you the YouTube video inside your own player.
 * Cheers, Alec
 *  Thread Starter [miguelgaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguelgaton/)
 * (@miguelgaton)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-this-plugin-2/#post-8835573)
 * Hello [@foliovision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foliovision/),
 * Currently I’m using JW Player Pro 6 to offer youtube videos with my own player,
   ads, etc.
 * Is it ok like that?
 * regards,
 *  [FolioVision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foliovision/)
 * (@foliovision)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-this-plugin-2/#post-8836163)
 * Hi Miguel,
 * JW Player is [no longer actively maintaining their YouTube integration](https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1406725-youtube-video-embed).
 * > Due to the frequency in which YouTube is making changes on their end and the
   > advancements that we have made to our hosting and streaming platform, we are
   > no longer actively maintaining our YouTube integration.
 * It sounded to me like you were looking at how to get your existing YouTube videos
   back into YouTube iframe. I showed you how to do that and/or move your videos
   to another player which supports YouTube, depending on which solution suits you
   better.

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 * Last reply from: [FolioVision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foliovision/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-this-plugin-2/#post-8836163)
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