I've got a site I built about 5 years ago which includes video. At the time, we decided that YouTube wasn't accesible enough so went with JW Player. All of their content is now Flash video, and we're looking to make it work on iOS etc.
An easy solution would be to move everything to YouTube (and that would have the advantage of more visibility online), so I'm wondering: how accessible is an embedded YouTube video these days? Is the new HTML5 iframe embed more or less accessible? I can find lots of posts from a few years back saying how unaccessible it is, but not much from the last few years. On this site there won't be any CC - there's a separate transcript available - so it really just needs to be controllable on a basic level via keyboard/screen reader.
Thanks for any help!
iframe is fairly accessible, although youtube docs aren't very informative. if you want to go down the rabbit hole, you can read these emails: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JanMar/0234.html
iframe embed spec details here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/events/io/2011/static/presofiles/youtube_iframe_player_the_future_of_embedding.pdf
more details: http://polylearnsupport.calpoly.edu/About/YouTubeAccessibility.html
there is still the keyboard problem with flash, although if the users is in a browser that supports html5, that's not a problem anymore. actually, i think the user has to opt-in for html5. or you can roll your own: http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/docs/index.html
seems like its fairly good, and is a viable option. of course, you could always upload a video and test it yourself.
Probably not very good, but here's an older review from 2011 - http://terrillthompson.com/blog/44 - not sure how much has changed.
The iframe is just one piece of the challenge.
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I need to provide people with a URL link to some of my Youtube videos, but I don't want Youtube to then automatically display some random video that it thinks should be "up next". There's nothing more embarrassing than trying to show people your work and then up pops a ridiculous video that they think must be yours as well.
I've tried tacking on "&autoplay=false" and "&autoplay=0" to the end of the URL, but that doesn't work.
Anyone know what needs to be done?
You can send people an embed link that shows the video only. I think in your case this would be fine, but for anyone that requires comments, it would be an issue. Also adding ?rel=0 will stop the end card from showing related videos from another users channel.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OefocRFlDss?rel=0
A list of embed params can be found here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters
I guess that's not possible, but maybe you could embed that video via API to some server you own, and disable the suggestions.
Check this documentation for disabling, controls and siggestions.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#autoplay
Or this: http://illuminea.com/remove-related-videos-from-end-of-embedded-youtube-video/
Luck!
This feature does not seem to be customizable from the url; it's more of a user setting. You can find here some details about how to turn it off for yourself but you cannot control the way it will behave for others.
Also, I'm not sure if this question qualifies as a programming one. :)
OK, I have thoroughly searched for an answer, and have not found one that WORKS correctly. I have a page full of videos - listing training videos, each will have a link to a youtube video (all videos have been uploaded to youtube), but will open up in a NEW PAGE on my site. I am a novice website designer, and the problem seems to be that people are anxious to give me half of the code, rather than being explicit with it. Can you help, please?
You need to get the embedding url.
For instance, instead of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPx3A6XEUF0
use this: https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPx3A6XEUF0
I test with browser with the link I get from "http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=xx" to see if it is be able to download.
After remove some parameters from original link, some works but some still don't.
I read some post here but most of are pretty old. A lot of change since then.
I wonder if there are somebody working on this recently.
The purpose I need this is because my youtube view program need a better quality video to display.
This is link doesn't work:
http://r17---sn-tt17rn7e.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?fexp=902529%2C932000%2C906383%2C902000%2C919512%2C929903%2C931202%2C900821%2C900823%2C931203%2C931401%2C908529%2C919373%2C930803%2C906836%2C920201%2C929602%2C930101%2C930603%2C900824%2C910223&ipbits=8&expire=1364854787&sver=3&mt=1364829200&newshard=yes&id=26c94a41dba396f5&key=yt1&upn=GrcnDUPfreQ&cp=U0hVSVhQUl9NUUNONV9QSlZIOm9BbnVkMTJzOXE5&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&ip=173.248.214.165&itag=34&ms=au&source=youtube&mv=m&signature=9593596F58B377FAA4C8F5A4516C7F53CE473340.507CA2EA250CEED2E2B2377FD70EE1A0478EE322&type=video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2"&itag=18&
What wrong with it? I removed fallback_path and replace sig with signature.
The working link is for webm. This is for h264. Both have the same kind of parameters.
And this is working now.
http://r17---sn-tt17rn7e.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?fexp=909708%2C912514%2C930802%2C932400%2C916624%2C931009%2C932000%2C906383%2C902000%2C919512%2C929903%2C931202%2C900821%2C900823%2C931203%2C931401%2C908529%2C930807%2C919373%2C906836%2C920201%2C929602%2C930101%2C930603%2C900824%2C910223&ms=au&itag=44&mt=1364825784&ipbits=8&cp=U0hVSVhQT19NUUNONV9QSlNCOlp5ZGoyMXJ3emlq&ip=173.248.214.165&upn=ohH0s8EjPyo&newshard=yes&source=youtube&ratebypass=yes&mv=m&sparams=cp%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cratebypass%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&id=26c94a41dba396f5&expire=1364851187&key=yt1&sver=3&signature=798EED35782B846D2B0EA190A17E837A0DBA18EA.AD56BCF6365AAD974C18F09F352F9422084C50AC&type=video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"&quality=large,itag=35&
That's not a supported method of interacting with YouTube. You need to use one of the official YouTube Player mechanisms to display YouTube videos.
Please familiarize yourself with the YouTube API Terms of Service if you have any more questions.
my colleauge and I created a website for a customer last month with several Youtube videos.
http://www.doepfner.de/filme.html
It worked very well and the customer was happy. Then I was 2 weeks on vacation. Now the design of the player has changed slightly. Biggest problem: the full screen button vanished. I tried to use the fs parameter to force it but nothing happend.
Can somebody tell me if it is possible to get the full screen button back or the other design?
This is most likely caused by you getting the HTML5 video player over Flash. This could have happened a couple ways. The most likely is you don't have Flash installed(or didn't at one point) and were opted into an experiment. You can opt out of the HTML5 experiment by going to http://www.youtube.com/html5. This will only effect your browser and not your users, but my guess is they're not having the same issues(assuming they have flash installed).
The other option is a bit of a hack(sort of). If you add webkitallowfullscreen and mozallowfullscreen as attributes to the iframe. This will allow the js fullscreen api to work in Firefox and Chrome. This api is not yet a finalized standard but should be soon.
I'm developing for the Xbox with XNA currently, but when I click on several links to the official Microsoft site, e.g. tutorials and files, then I get redirected to this page:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/19992.aspx
For example by clicking this link:
http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/skinned_model
Anyone having the same problems with the official Microsoft site currently?
Yes. Microsoft are aware of this issue - although I'm not privy to any information about when/if they will fix it.
Basically, as part of the move to Windows Phone 8, they've separated out the Xbox and Phone development stuff.
If you come across old links like that, you can usually repair them by hand by changing the domain like so:
forums.create.msdn.com becomes xboxforums.create.msdn.com (change the subdomain)
And
create.msdn.com becomes xbox.create.msdn.com (add a subdomain)
Yes.
It'd be like this for a month now. It seems to suggest they are trying to downplay XNA for Windows 8 development which is saddening! You could always use Google's caching service to view the pages if you are finding them from Google... I don't think this will work for downloads though!