diff --git a/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js b/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js
index dbf2a37813..a2e07fe8fa 100644
--- a/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js
+++ b/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js
@@ -2240,13 +2240,14 @@ class PlaybackManager {
                     const streamInfo = createStreamInfoFromUrlItem(item);
                     streamInfo.fullscreen = playOptions.fullscreen;
                     getPlayerData(player).isChangingStream = false;
-                    return player.play(streamInfo).then(function () {
+                    return player.play(streamInfo).then(() => {
                         loading.hide();
                         onPlaybackStartedFn();
                         onPlaybackStarted(player, playOptions, streamInfo);
-                    }, function () {
-                        // TODO: show error message
+                    }).catch((errorCode) => {
                         self.stop(player);
+                        loading.hide();
+                        showPlaybackInfoErrorMessage(self, errorCode || 'ErrorDefault');
                     });
                 });
             }
@@ -2935,7 +2936,7 @@ class PlaybackManager {
 
             state.NextMediaType = nextMediaType;
 
-            if (isServerItem(streamInfo.item)) {
+            if (streamInfo && isServerItem(streamInfo.item)) {
                 if (player.supportsProgress === false && state.PlayState && !state.PlayState.PositionTicks) {
                     state.PlayState.PositionTicks = streamInfo.item.RunTimeTicks;
                 }
diff --git a/src/plugins/youtubePlayer/plugin.js b/src/plugins/youtubePlayer/plugin.js
index 758360576d..93bb435c27 100644
--- a/src/plugins/youtubePlayer/plugin.js
+++ b/src/plugins/youtubePlayer/plugin.js
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ import loading from '../../components/loading/loading';
 
 /* globals YT */
 
+const errorCodes = {
+    2: 'YoutubeBadRequest',
+    5: 'YoutubePlaybackError',
+    100: 'YoutubeNotFound',
+    101: 'YoutubeDenied',
+    150: 'YoutubeDenied'
+};
+
 function zoomIn(elem, iterations) {
     const keyframes = [
         { transform: 'scale3d(.2, .2, .2)  ', opacity: '.6', offset: 0 },
@@ -139,7 +147,8 @@ function setCurrentSrc(instance, elem, options) {
                         } else if (event.data === YT.PlayerState.PAUSED) {
                             Events.trigger(instance, 'pause');
                         }
-                    }
+                    },
+                    'onError': (e) => reject(errorCodes[e.data] || 'ErrorDefault')
                 },
                 playerVars: {
                     controls: 0,
diff --git a/src/strings/en-us.json b/src/strings/en-us.json
index 778d4d11f8..3f1276fb69 100644
--- a/src/strings/en-us.json
+++ b/src/strings/en-us.json
@@ -1449,5 +1449,9 @@
     "LabelAllowedAudioChannels": "Maximum Allowed Audio Channels",
     "LabelSelectAudioChannels": "Channels",
     "LabelSelectMono": "Mono",
-    "LabelSelectStereo": "Stereo"
+    "LabelSelectStereo": "Stereo",
+    "YoutubeBadRequest": "Bad request.",
+    "YoutubePlaybackError": "Requested video cannot be played.",
+    "YoutubeNotFound": "Video not found.",
+    "YoutubeDenied": "Requested video is not allowed to be played in embedded players."
 }