I have been trying to play a youtube video in a windows 8 html5 & javascript app with no luck!
I tried copy pasting the code youtube provided for embedding videos in the body of default.html, for example:
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/k07IaB9yq_U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
This gives the following error:
The Adobe Flash player or an HTML5 supported browser is required for video playback.
Get the latest flash player
Learn more about updating an HTML5 browser.
when I try using the video tag with the previous link, for example:
<video src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/k07IaB9yq_U" controls></video>
It says an invalid source!
What is the right way to do this?
Thanks
YouTube has a beta program to provide some videos in HTML5. You can join it here . Once you have done that you should be able to embed HTML5 YouTube videos in a WebView control by navigating to the YouTube URL.
Flash videos cannot be displayed in a Metro style app.
Code for the webview control
string htmlFragment =
@"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'>
<html>
<head>
<title>YouTubePagesample</title>
</head>
<iframe width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/{YoutubeID}' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>
<body>
</body>
</html>;";
this.webView.NavigateToString(htmlFragment);
Use the setInnerHTMLUnsafe method as win 8 apps don't like the external JS being injected in the app. videoPlayer is the div which you want to add the embed to.
var content = '<iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8sPj0Ic8KQ8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>' ;
WinJS.Utilities.setInnerHTMLUnsafe(videoPlayer, content);
