I would like to show youtube video as fullscreen when a user click on a image from my web page. It shouldnt take me to the youtube website - so I can give "esc" and come back to my home page.
Is that possible ?
Try (replace XXXX by YT ID)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XXXX&vq=hd720
http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXX?hd=1&autoplay=1
Works for me.
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Sorry if this has been asked before... in a mobile browser (eg iOS Safari) when a Vimeo video is embedded into a HTML page, clicking play on the video pops it open in the native player in Safari - I want to be able to launch a video in this exact way, but from an image link rather than having to embed the video... So that clicking the image pops open the video in the native Safari player.
I've searched around but think I'm lacking the correct terminology to know exactly what to search for.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance...
Why don't you want to embed the vimeo code?
One work around can be going to your vimeo video settings, then Basic and at the bottom of that page upload your own Thumbnail image... You will still have to embed the vimeo code though, but now you will have the image you want as the first image before you click on the video.
This can be a partial solution in the mean time. Also I think a Pro vimeo account might allow a direct link to a video.
I am creating a mobile web site and would like to show a small (88px by 50px) YouTube thumbnail that, when clicked, plays the video in fullscreen and returns them to the webpage. It should work in iOS and Android.
My first approach was to use <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0>...</a>. However, on iOS, the user is redirected to the YouTube app, and they must manually navigate back to Safari.
Next, I tried embedding a small iframe player with
<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T0WepLbWyq0?autoplay=1&controls=0&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen width=88 height=50></iframe>
This correctly pops up a fullscreen video with a "Done" button on iOS that brings the user back to the Safari page. However, the resulting thumbnail is dominated by a large, red "Play" button.
Is there a way to hide the red Play button on an embedded video?
Or is there another way to embed a small YouTube thumbnail on a web page that allows users to return to the page when viewing is finished?
Currently, I'm considering a) Trying to hide the ugly red Play button with an overlay that allows clicks to pass through, or b) Trying to get a direct link to the YouTube video file, since linking directly to a video file allows the user to return to the browser when finished.
However, these hacks seem complicated and brittle. Is there a better way?
Thanks!
I'm trying to link to videos on vimeo within my PhoneGap application and I would like them to play inside the app (Fullscreen and when done button is pressed go back to app). Does anyone know how to pull off this kind of functionality. I've looked at vimeo's API's but they seem to just pull the video links in and then link out to the video. Any thoughts?
The Iframe tag that comes by default in the share option will work in phone gap.
Note:You need a pro account to use some thing other then the iframe
The organization I work for has created an interactive YouTube video in which you can navigate around to other YouTube videos by clicking links within the video - sort of like a choose your own adventure type deal.
Anyway, I was working on a web page that references this video and I'd like to embed the video directly on the page.
The interactive portions actually work while the video is embedded, but unlike how it works when playing on YouTube, the url doesn't actually change and the back button is therefore non-functional.
So if I choose a path and determine that's not where I want to go, the only way to get back would be to reload the entire page and start from the beginning.
I'm guessing my best choice here is to just go ahead and link this off to YouTube, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing an obvious easy way to embed this video on the page and keep the back button functionality that's possible when the video plays on YouTube.
Thanks for your time!
Is it possible to have a YouTube video played on a web page in Safari on the iPhone, and have the 'done' button and 'video finished' event send the user back to the mobile web page they came from?
Currently, it seems like i'm only able to direct them to YouTube.app to view the video ... but they then remain in YouTube.app and are presented with the videos comments and other such information, and I do not wish to display this information.
If this is possible, please provide a link to a site with documentation/examples or an example in your response.
Thanks.
Use YouTube's new IFRAME-based embed code (I believe they give it to you by default now when you click their embed button...?) and on an iPhone, it will be rendered as an HTML5 video if possible.
When users tap the play icon on it, it will launch the standard video viewer, not the YouTube app. When they exit the video, they'll be back on your webpage.
The new embed code looks like this:
<iframe
title="YouTube video player"
width="480"
height="390"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO-ID"
frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
This is more or less what they do in the new YouTube webapp, except that they don't need the IFRAME (they just do the HTML5 embed on their own page).