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I’ve managed to solve the problem of using videos with the excerpts using help from the http://aaronrussell.co.uk/legacy/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/

Before when I had it i had some custom excerpts which is why it was not showing unfortunately, stupid me. I had to alter the code slightly to the example given which is as follows…

Place in the functions.php file of your theme and turn off and excerpt plugins.

// Better excerpts to show the videos and solve the youtube issue.
function improved_trim_excerpt($text) {
        global $post;
        if ( '' == $text ) {
                $text = get_the_content('');
                $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
                $text = str_replace('\]\]\>', ']]>', $text);
                $text = strip_tags($text, '<p><script><div><span><embed><object><iframe><img>');
                $excerpt_length = 100;
                $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
                if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) {
                        array_pop($words);
                        array_push($words, '...');
                        $text = implode(' ', $words);
                }
        }
        return $text;
}

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'improved_trim_excerpt');