I am trying to tell the Youtube iframe API to set the iframes to be a certain size. I used
[code]player.setPlaybackQuality('large');[/code]
to set quality but it did not set the correct size of the video (even though it says it does). I am not able to specify exact numbers because the size is different for different videos. For example some videos are (560x315, 640x360, etc...) while other videos can have other sizes. How do I set a category of sizes?
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I'm getting the thumbnail videos from youtube using the image subdomain practically you can get 5 images sizes like:
"http://img.youtube.com/vi/{videoId}/default.jpg"; // Small Default
"http://img.youtube.com/vi/{videoId}/0.jpg"; // Large Default
"http://img.youtube.com/vi/{videoId}/1.jpg";
"http://img.youtube.com/vi/{videoId}/2.jpg";
"http://img.youtube.com/vi/{videoId}/3.jpg";
I'm wondering if there's a different way to get other sizes for the thumbnails beside the defaults
I have an embedded youtube video on a web page. On the desktop it works fine. However, on an ipad (running iOS7) the video quality is rather poor, probably 480p. Inside the iframe it looks fine, but when you make the video full screen it is very noticeable. I have tried using hd=1&vq=hd720 in the querystring and using cueVideoById with a suggested quality of 'hd720' but neither worked. Are there any work arounds either to get higher resolution on the ipad when embedded youtube videos are made fullscreen, or to force higher resolution for embedded youtube videos on the ipad?
I found a workaround that works, although it is hardly elegant.
Basically, I create the iframe with a dimensions large enough to get 720p quality. (Such as making the iframe 720x440 pixels.) And then, I use CSS transforms to scale the iframe back down to the size I want. The CSS looks something like:
-webkit-transform-origin: left top;
-webkit-transform: scale(0.5);
Where 0.5 could be replaced with whatever scale you had to increase the size of the iframe by.
The main downside to this from the user's perspective is that the video controls are scaled down. However, in full screen mode the controls are the normal size, and the user can pinch out to full screen, so for my team at least the trade-off in increased video quality was worth it.
I'm looking to embed some youtube videos in my web page and from looking at the videos on youtube they all seem to be displayed with an aspect ration of 16:9 or 640px:340px.
Trouble is I only have 600px max space to put them in, would I just work out the appropriate height i.e. 640/16*9 = 333px and display them in that and would that take care of everything ,or is there any other size allocated for the progress bar at bottom.
E.g. if you look at this video you can see the progress bar throughout.
http://www.youtube.com/user/southerncomfort?v=ygeWsoYYMuQ
Thanks,
You can use any youtube embed code generator to achieve your goal with ease.
Go to Advanced Youtube Embed Code Generator.
Enter the video ID and input either height or width in the
respective column and hit generate button(the empty field will be
automatically calculated with 16:9 ratio)
Copy the code and use it.
You can choose either 16:9 or 4:3, the later being 480px X 385px (+25px to height for controls).
OR, if you want 16:9, you can choose the size to be 560x315.
Check out the style guide: https://web.archive.org/web/20130415231312/http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178264
For anyone still on this,
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_aspect_ratio.asp.
Ensure to use ALL CSS PROPERTIES AND STYLING enlisted else it won't render correctly on responsive sites and apps.
An application I'm working on needs to get HQ YouTube thumbnails given a URL. Using this answer, I tried using the maxresdefault.jpg to get the maximum resolution of the thumbnail but on some videos (seemingly random), the request 404's.
Here are some examples:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/zIez5QVE3NI/maxresdefault.jpg works
http://img.youtube.com/vi/DaAfe5xTm8w/maxresdefault.jpg doesn't work
Using the same URL's, other requests using the same video keys do work:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/zIez5QVE3NI/default.jpg works
http://img.youtube.com/vi/DaAfe5xTm8w/default.jpg works
Why doesn't maxresdefault.jpg reliably return the image? Both of those videos are public and can be embedded.
I'd use 0.jpg but it has black bars on the top and bottom of the image.
As I understand it, YouTube only generates high-res stills for high-res videos. The first one you link was uploaded at a resolution of at least 1080p, while the second was less than 720p.
Looks like the only thing you can do is pull the video feed, check that to see if a high-res still has been generated and up-scale the smaller one yourself if not.
All¹ YouTube stills are presented in the 4:3 aspect ratio, so will always have black bars at the top and bottom if the video is 16:9. In HTML/CSS, this is easily combated by setting the image as the background of a div and sizing the div to the correct aspect.
¹ Except the mqdefault.jpg stills, which are all in 16:9 aspect (320x180)
Update 2015 :
None of your 'maxresdefault' link seems to be working
Try these:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg
Update 2019 ::
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/hqdefault.jpg
Seems to return highest possible image....
1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg return previews through the length of the clip which are handy also ;)
Is there a way to show a YouTube video with a custom width/height?
From this link on YouTube's site:
You can resize the player by editing the object width="425" and height="350" fields at both the beginning and end of the embedded player code. Make sure that the sizes you choose have the same ratio as the default numbers, so that the video doesn't get stretched—just multiply the width by 0.8235 to get the height.
In short, just edit the parameters used for the dimensions in the embed code, making sure you preserve the original aspect ratio.
Hope that helps!