Comments on: How To Play YouTube Videos Within an Application

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:50:01 +0000

All was working OK until I uploaded my own youtube video. Now the youtube embedded player icon stays gray and is crossed.
Any idea why?
On a PC web browser, everything works fine, on the iPhone Youtube player everything is fine, but the problem arises in the webview.

The video is: http://www.youtube.com/v/JVqyk0Pcg0c

By: Norio

Norio — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:31:16 +0000

Thank you very much!
I can’t thank you enough. I could play video without modification!!!!!!!
Norio

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:19:45 +0000

Hi all, Thanks for the great info above.

Regarding a video end event: I’ve been successful using the UIWindowDidBecomeVisibleNotification notification to signal when the video has finished playing or when the user has indicated that they are done.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:27:04 +0000

@Curious: You can download complete working code from this post.

By: Curious Noob

Curious Noob — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:42:26 +0000

if that wasn’t clear in the example of C#
Console.WriteLine(”[Put text hear for output]“);

I have trouble looking at that since i am noob and distinguishing reserved words from places i’m supposed to supply info (such as height, width, actual url)..

Thanks guys!

By: Curious Noob

Curious Noob — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:37:59 +0000

So this is excellent…however i am a noob, would someone be able to copy the code again in a comment and put in brackets where certain info goes.

I am trying to work on an iphone app and website but i’m extremely noob, and i dont know where i need to change information. Maybe even some one could make a really quick working example, so i can see where i can change things…
Sorry for the noobery

By: Matze

Matze — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:19:06 +0000

btw: Nice app WDYK!

By: Matze

Matze — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:09:22 +0000

@Nick: Thanks a lot for your advice. We want to sell our app in the iTS. Youtube’s terms of usage prohibit any commercial use of the youtube-channel. I am not sure, whether linking to a youtube video is commercial usage of youtubes contents.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:54:12 +0000

@Matze: I’m not a lawyer, so my answer is based on my experience as a developer and should not be interpreted as legal advice.
In the WDYK application we display the name of the author of the YouTube clip next to the play button inside the app. The idea is to make it very clear that the video is not ours, but belongs to someone else and we’re just linking to it.
You can download the WDYK app free from the App Store, or just look at the screen images in iTunes and you’ll see the author label.

By: Matze

Matze — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:19:29 +0000

Hello from Germany.

I’d like to know if I impinge upon someone’s rights by linking to a youtube video in my application, which I am looking forward to sell in the iTS this year.

Best regards and thanks in advance for any help, Matze