I have problems embedding Youtube videos in a iOS6 app.
The problem is that whenever I create a html element that uses the old / or new embed code, it opens Safari and shows the video
I use the Youtube API to get videos, and use PhoneGap
Update
The solution is to set OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView to YES in Phonegap settings
You can use UIWebview to load videos instead of Safari.
Here is a sample code
CGRect rect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGSize screenSize = rect.size;
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,screenSize.width,screenSize.height)];
webView.autoresizesSubviews = YES;
webView.autoresizingMask=(UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth);
NSString *videoUrl = #"http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0";
NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"<html><head><meta name = \"viewport\" content = \"initial-scale = 1.0, user-scalable = no, width = 212\"/></head><body style=\"background:#F00;margin-top:0px;margin-left:0px\"><div><object width=\"320\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"%#\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"%#\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\"></embed></object></div></body></html>",videoUrl,videoUrl] ;
[webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.youtube.com"]];
[window addSubview:webView];
[webView release];
Not shure if you are talking a real APP (dont know anything about that)
but if its a WEBAPP (a normal webpage that tries to look as a real APP),
Then the only way i found to prevent youtube-videos from opening in Safari/Qt-player
is to embed it using "Fancybox" (maybe other boxes also).
that will keep it on the page in Youtube´s own player.
You can even have a original playlistplayer.
I stopped trying to embed youtube videos on iPhone-pages (to small)
I tried to include a link to a jSfiddle-example but this forum wont accept it
it forces me to write the whole example here...which i´m not going to do
because that is to much work for me right now.
(dont know how others are allowed to link to jSfiddle)
This forum is way to dictative to my taste.
Anyway you should be able to (incase of a webapp) find info at Fancybox´s website.
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I am currently using iOS-youtube-player-helper library in our application. There is a view controller, with a YTPlayerView that has an aspect ratio of 16:9, which means it takes only a part of the screen. The video is loaded in medium and no matter how, I could not get it to play in 720P or 1080P. I am certain that these qualities are available, it's just the YTPlayerView forcing the quality based on the video player height. Because this is a library and not direct iframe embed, I cannot use "vq" parameter(specifying vq in playerVars does not seem to work), and setting the quality to be small then change it later does not work either(refer to this issue on GitHub)
Now, given the factor that I cannot make the YTPlayerView to fill up the whole screen, because of UI designing issues. So, is it possible to force the YTPlayerView to play in at least 720P? (Workarounds, changing the library code, ...)
Because this is an app that will be on App Store(and of course we don't want to have any legal disputes with google either), please don't suggest using libraries that are against the Youtube ToC such as XCDYouTubeKit
Many Thanks
I've found a workaround and this works well for me.
First of all, the problems depends by the webView size constructed inside the YTPlayerView. For example if you have a 320x200 playerView, try to forcing your video to 720hd don't work because the iFrame youtube player class re-switch to a better resolution according to your player size (in this case small quality because you have 320x200).
You can see this SO answer that explain this issue.
When you have imported the YTPlayerView class to your project you have two files: YTPlayerView.h and YTPlayerView.m
YTPlayerView.m (Update to work also on iPads)
I've change the function where the webview is initialized with a custom size (4k resolution) and to the last part I've added the possibility to scale the contents and restore the original frame, like this:
- (UIWebView *)createNewWebView {
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 4096.0, 2160.0); //4k resolution
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
//UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.bounds];
webView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
webView.scrollView.scrollEnabled = NO;
webView.scrollView.bounces = NO;
if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(playerViewPreferredWebViewBackgroundColor:)]) {
webView.backgroundColor = [self.delegate playerViewPreferredWebViewBackgroundColor:self];
if (webView.backgroundColor == [UIColor clearColor]) {
webView.opaque = NO;
}
}
webView.scalesPageToFit = YES;
if ( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad )
{
CGSize contentSize = webView.scrollView.contentSize;
CGSize viewSize = self.bounds.size;
float scale = viewSize.width / contentSize.width;
webView.scrollView.minimumZoomScale = scale;
webView.scrollView.maximumZoomScale = scale;
webView.scrollView.zoomScale = scale;
// center webView after scaling..
[webView setFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, self.frame.origin.y/3, 4096.0, 2160.0)];
} else {
webView.frame = self.bounds;
}
[webView reload];
return webView;
}
Hope this helps who try to use the Youtube original player in his project.
P.S.: All my tries were did with a swift project and the following vars:
var playerVars:Dictionary =
["playsinline":"1",
"autoplay":"1",
"modestbranding":"1",
"rel":"0",
"controls":"0",
"fs":"0",
"origin":"https://www.example.com",
"enablejsapi":"1",
"iv_load_policy":"3",
"showinfo":"0"]
Using the functions:
self.playerView.load(withVideoId: "Rk6_hdRtJOE", playerVars: self.playerVars)
and the follow method to force the resolution:
self.playerView.loadVideo(byId: "Rk6_hdRtJOE", startSeconds: 0.0, suggestedQuality: YTPlaybackQuality.HD720)
About iPads:
As reported by Edward in comments there was a little problem on iPads, that's because these devices seems don't apply scalesPageToFit. The goal is to check if the device is an iPad, then to scale (zooming out) the scrollView to host the little view bounds.
I've tested on my iPad air and it works. Let me know.
Okay maybe the headline is somehow disturbing, I hope to state this so you can understand my problem.
So I have a scrollview which has paging enabled. I want to build something like iOS Photo App.
I load the photos and videos which are on the device via ALAsset and store them in a group.
Now i want to present each object on a separate subview of the scrollview.
For the pictures it is working fine. But for videos I cant make it work.
Here is what i did and what did not work:
First:
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
NSString *embedHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"<html><head><style></style></head><body>\
<video id='video_with_controls' width=\"%0.0f\" height=\"%0.0f\" controls>\
<source src='%#' type='video/MOV'/></video><ul>\
</body></html>", self.mainScrollView.frame.size.width, self.mainScrollView.frame.size.height, [assetRepresentation url]];
[webView loadHTMLString:embedHTML baseURL:nil];
then:
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
NSString* embedHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"<video controls> <source src=\"%#\"> </video>", [assetRepresentation url];
[webView loadHTMLString:embedHTML baseURL:nil];
Also I tried to store it in NSData first and then load it from there, but that causes memory problems and wont work.
Any help is highly appreciated!
Edit: As I think UIWebView is the thing that matches the iOS App visually at most, I want to use this and not for example the MPMoviePlayer .. if I am wrong there I would be glad to know how / what else looks like the original App
I guess the video url is local thats why its not working in UiWebView
so the solution would be this:
in delegate method webviewdidstartload,set up MPmovieplayer controller to play inside a UiView and yes it will look like original app as you will be playing it in a view
something like this:
Add MPMoviePlayerController's view to a UIView
When you movie file is located locale you must set the baseURL to your MainBundle and put the full path in the "src"-tag.
I have a UIWebView with size 250x160, which should play video from youtube.com.
NSString *videoURL = #"http://www.youtube.com/v/Y4Y_a45Bv20?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata";
NSString *videoHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"\
<html><body>\
<embed src=\"%#\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"%f\" height=\"%f\">\
</embed>\
</body></html>", videoURL, self.web.frame.size.width-20, self.web.frame.size.height-20];
[self.web loadHTMLString: videoHTML baseURL: nil];
While playing video I want to resize the UIWebView. When I make it, for example 2 times bigger, embed video stays how it was 250x160. How can I resize it without restarting it?
I found anoyingly easy solution :
NSString *videoHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text/html\" width=\"100%%\" height=\"98%%\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y4Y_a45Bv20?showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>"];
The key is in width=\"100%%\" and height=\"98%%\". I didn't set height to 100%%, because while playing video, it's strangely increases and after 10-20 seconds you need to scroll uiwebview to find where video is gone.
And don't forget set UIWebView scalePageToFit = YES;
try affineTransform.
webview.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(2, 2);
or
webView.scalesPageToFit=YES;
I found this approach and it worked for me:
webView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
Auto-resize iOS WebView Helper
This code has worked really well to auto-play video inline in an iOS 6 uiwebview. However, I upgraded to iOS 7 and now my video will not auto-play. Sometimes video will auto-play and sometimes it won't. It will auto-play about 10% of the time. Most of the time I get a spinning wheel. If I remove &playsinline=1 from the src tag it will auto-play fullscreen (not what I want). I spent a lot of time creating a custom player for this app and now it won't work correctly. Any help is greatly appreciated.
_youTubeWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 20, 320, 184)];
_youTubeWebView.delegate = self;
_youTubeWebView.scrollView.bounces = NO;
_youTubeWebView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = YES;
_youTubeWebView.mediaPlaybackAllowsAirPlay = YES;
_youTubeWebView.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO;
[self.view addSubview:_youTubeWebView];
NSString* embedHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"<html><body style='margin:0px;padding:0px;'><script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api'></script><script type='text/javascript'>function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady(){ytplayer=new YT.Player('playerId',{events:{onReady:onPlayerReady}})}function onPlayerReady(a){ a.target.playVideo(); }</script><iframe id='playerId' type='text/html' width='%#' height='%#'src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/%#?enablejsapi=1&rel=0&playsinline=1&controls=0&showinfo=0' frameborder='0'></body></html>", w, h, videoId];
[_youTubeWebView loadHTMLString:embedHTML baseURL:nil];
Here's a link to a quick test file. videoPlayerTest.zip
This sounds like the following open bug against the Youtube iframe player API:
Issue 5204: js iframe api playVideo() doesn't play video in iOS 7
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=5204
You can fix the autoplay behavior by changing the baseURL to:
[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourceURL]
How to embed a Youtube video that has copyrighted content in it.
For example when you try playing this video(http://www.youtube.com/embed/ADBKdSCbmiM) in a UIWebView it says
This Video Contains content from Vevo. It is restricted from playback on certain sites
How would I go about getting videos like this to play in an embedded player or a custom player that I would make using MPMoviePlayer or such. I know this is possible as following app does this. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audioviz-view-your-songs-on/id547001249?mt=8)
Edit
Few videos play in browser but in iOS Simulator its showing
This video contains content from SME . It is restricted from playback on certain site
Thanks for all the help!
You can use player vars while initializing youtube sdk:
NSDictionary *playerVars = #{
#"origin" : #"http://www.youtube.com",
};
[self.playerView loadWithVideoId:#"KOvoD1upTxM" playerVars:playerVars];
Enjoy!
To play the youtube video using uiwebview:
First check if your youtube URL is played or not in browser. If the video doesn't play in the browser it won't play in the device either
You only check in the device; the video doesn't play in simulator
- (void) displayGoogleVideo
{
CGRect rect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGSize screenSize = rect.size;
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,screenSize.width,screenSize.height)];
webView.autoresizesSubviews = YES;
webView.autoresizingMask=(UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth);
NSString *videoUrl = #"http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0"; // valid youtube url
NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"<html><head><meta name = \"viewport\" content = \"initial-scale = 1.0, user-scalable = no, width = 212\"/></head><body style=\"background:#F00;margin-top:0px;margin-left:0px\"><div><object width=\"320\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"%#\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"%#\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\"></embed></object></div></body></html>",videoUrl,videoUrl] ;
[webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.youtube.com"]];
[window addSubview:webView];
[webView release];
}
If you're embedding on a mobile app, you need to set your Referer in your request header for the video. Otherwise, Youtube automatically blacklists you if your Referer field is left blank.
I answered this in detail here. I was experiencing this myself and I fixed it in my case (iOS app using React Native). I can play Vevo, WMG, and all other restricted content now.