I have the same issue. When <video:category> XML tags are found in duplicate in the sitemap-video.xml, the XML file produce “Invalid XML: too many tags” errors in Google Webmaster Tools. For example:
…
<video:category>Football</video:category>
<video:category>Baseball</video:category>
</video:video>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://abcdefg.com/wxyz/</loc>
<video:video>
<video:category>Hockey</video:category>
<video:category>Baseball</video:category> <=== different video with same category
Will result in a failed attempt to add the XML Sitemap for Videos.
I know these are legitimate tags, but it appears if they are present twice in the same XML file, the XML is invalid. When duplicates are manually removed, ** the XML file is accepted **.
IMO, these duplicates should be legal since different videos can below to the same category.
Help please.
Same problem! When is solution coming…. otherwise plugin is useless. Help please.
Guys,
I have same issue and the way to fix it is as someone mentioned above – removing Second <category> tag.
I think it comes from post being part of 2 or more different categories and plugin simply picks it up. Shrt term solution:
Manually fix errors Webmaster tools points out – they actually give you exact line number and re-submit.
Long term – don’t place a blog post containing video into more then One category and you should be fine.
I think the category should be commaseperated to be valid
I reduced it to just one <video:category> and it and my sitemap was ok. I think the author should edit the plugin to generate just one and ask what category.
Youtube has specific category names you need to map to like: like People & Blogs, Entertainment, etc..
http://www.youtube.com/videos?feature=mh
