I'm handling time format conversion operations and i need to turn Secs into Timecode format: Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames.
To calculate the frames I need to know the video standard (PAL or NTSC), hence my question:
Are all the youtube videos encoded to pal or ntsc? or they keep the original uploaded video standard? And, if they keep the original standard, how can I retrieve this data?
There is no mention of that whether it's PAL or NTSC in the docs.
However, I found this google forum that says
YouTube will accept both NTSC and PAL format, and on the internet, it
makes no difference at all. Use whichever format your original
material is in.
Youtube video metadata are returned after successful method calls to the Youtube API.
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I'm going to create the automate API for youtube report. Is there a way to pull the number of users of each percentage (25%,50%) or second of video viewed via youtube analytics API? I use python language from link as shown below:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/data_model
I found a metric name "audienceWatchRatio", but I'm not sure that's what I want or not? I tried to run the script including this metric with and without "elapsedVideoTimeRatio" dimension, and it always shows "The query is not supported."
Well, I found here in the Analytics and Reporting APIs on how to get the percentage viewed in the video. By using the averageViewPercentage you will get the average percentage of a video watched during a video playback. The only problem here is this parameter get the total percentage of the channel, not the specific or individual video.
Check this link if you want to check on how to use this parameter.
I also found a related question about your issue, but this question uses Javascript. So just check if it can help and give idea to you.
Calculate percentage of youtube video viewed with API
I'm using the Youtube API v3 with a website for searching Gaming streams. For Gaming, 4K and 60FPS are critical for some users...
While the Search->List seems quite extensive, it's missing filters for 4K and 60 FPS. The only relevant option seems to be videoDefinition='high' (720p+). Also, Video->List->FileDetails information is only available to channel owners. Am I missing something? How do I filter the search to only 4K and/or 48+ FPS?
Well, I think there is no method in the YouTube API now that can filter the result base on FPS. Like you said the only way to filter the video by its quality is by using the videoDefinition but only has standard and high option.
I try to check the quality of different video by using the Videos: list method and use the contentDetails as a part to view the definition. By using this way, I only get a definition result of "hd". All the high quality videos that I try has the same result of "hd"
Here is the example request that I use to check this video
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails&id=6pxRHBw-k8M&key=YOUR_API_KEY
I have a website that has a variety of embedded YouTube videos. When a user pauses a given video I want a screenshot to be taken of the playing video. Now, I've taken many approaches in tackling this problem such as copying the video frame to canvas (this doesn't work because the videos are external to my site), and also through the use of FFMpeg, and FFMpeg-PHP. The latter two- although very powerful- also do not work as the given piece of media has to be hosted on my server.
I'm at my wits end about what to do as I've spent countless hours trying to do this, and I'm ready to accept defeat.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Andre.
There's no supported method in the YouTube Player or Data API to take a screenshot of an arbitrary frame of a video.
I used the img.youtube.com/vi path to get the image. The function getScreen basically parses the youtube url and grabs the &v= argument to get the video id.
Since I use youtube.com/embed/ url format, then I had to rework the function a little to get the video id.
http://mistonline.in/wp/get-youtube-video-screenshot-using-simple-php-and-javascript/#
Is there any way to tell when a video has been fully encoded at its highest definition via the API?
As far as I can tell, the YouTube API provides the 'state' of a video (processing, restricted, deleted, rejected and failed). However, I can't tell if the API also provides the encoding qualities of the video (240p, 360p, 720i, etc...).
Does anyone know how to get this information?
Taken directly from the docs:
player.getPlaybackQuality():String
This function retrieves the actual video quality of the current video. It returns undefined if there is no current video. Possible return values are highres, hd1080, hd720, large, medium and small.
I'm writing a Boxee app that makes use of YouTube videos and I want to be able to display the highest quality version available. I was looking through the YouTube API, but I can't seem to find a way to detect if 720p and/or 1080p versions of the video are available.
Does anyone know how to do this? I'm already using their Data API to collection information about the video, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the payload about different qualities consumable on the web: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/NWHfY_lvKIQ
I could just hard code fmt=22 and let it default to a lesser quality version, but then I miss out on 1080p (fmt=387).
The information isn't available through the API, but can be queried and changed via JavaScript after the page has loaded (if you embed a video for example).
http://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata/browse_thread/thread/da4344cc66959ecc