YouTube embed showing device support option - youtube

Question

I embed Youtube videos in my angular app using two directives which make use of the YouTube Iframe API. The first loads the library async
angular.module('myApp')
.service('youTubeService', function($rootScope, $window) {
var self = this;
self.ready = false;
$window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady = function () {
self.ready = true;
console.log("Youtube service ready");
$rootScope.$broadcast('youTubeServiceReady', true);
};
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = '//www.youtube.com/iframe_api';
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
});
I then embed the video using the javascript library
angular.module('myApp')
.directive('youtube', function (youTubeService) {
return {
link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
var player;
var playerReady = false;
var playerState;
var callback;
var carouselScope = element.parent().parent().scope();
function createPlayer() {
player = new YT.Player(element[0], {
height: attrs.height,
width: attrs.width,
videoId: attrs.youtube,
playerVars: { 'start' : attrs.starttime, 'end' : attrs.endtime, 'origin': 'https://', showinfo: 0, modestbranding: 1 },
events: {
onReady: function () {
playerReady = true;
// if (callback !== null) {
// callback();
// }
},
onStateChange: function (event) {
//console.log("Time:" + getCurrentTime() + ", Duration:" + getDuration() );
playerState = event.data;
if (playerState === YT.PlayerState.PAUSED) {
carouselScope.play();
}
}
}
});
}
if (youTubeService.ready) {
createPlayer();
} else {
scope.$on('youTubeServiceReady', function () {
createPlayer();
});
}
...
This was working for months up until yesterday but now I get the following video as my embed in all desktop browsers as documented here
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6098135?hl=en-GB
My problem is I can't figure out what I should be changing because as far as I understand the iframe api is the correct one. Does anyone know what I should be changing?

Answer 1

So we were having the exact same issue with our site.
It turns out that our client, which uses code very similar to yours above is functioning correctly. Our problem ended up being the way in which we were adding videos and video meta data to our database.
This might not be your issue, but we were using
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/<video id>?v=2&alt=json
to add videos to our system. As this turns out to be a deprecated endpoint, we had to upgrade to the v3 system which is explained here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list