I am building an application where I want to play video from url like Youtube, Vimeo, Direct url. I am making custom player using AVPlayer to play a video from a direct url of video clip(like www.abc/play.mp4). But later I faced a huge issue to play youtube & vimeo video. And after searching a lot I found these link where it says without using UIWebview I can't play a Youtube link:
Play YouTube videos with MPMoviePlayerController instead of UIWebView
Playing video from youtube link without UIWebView
So I just used this code:
NSString *youTubeVideoHTML = @"<html><head><style>body{margin:0;}</style></head> <body> <div id=\"player\"></div> <script> var tag = document.createElement('script'); tag.src = 'http://www.youtube.com/player_api'; var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag); var player; function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() { player = new YT.Player('player', { width:\'100%%\', height:'200px', videoId:\'%@\', events: { 'onReady': onPlayerReady } }); } function onPlayerReady(event) { event.target.playVideo(); } </script> </body> </html>";
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:youTubeVideoHTML, videoId];
self.embedded_player_view.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO;
[self.embedded_player_view loadHTMLString:html baseURL:[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourceURL]];
Now when I click on youtube/Vimeo video link from tableview its playing the video with the default player i.e. quicktime player. Its not running the video within the UIWebview frame itself. But I want to show the video in the 1st half of the screen i.e my UIWebview frame. Is that possible?
In my app I can see this:
when clicking on red play button I can see the video in full screen in quicktime player like this:
But I want to show the video within the same webView frame not via quick time player. It should play like this:
Same does in MusicTube and PlayTube.
Or is there any other way to achieve the same? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I used the following method to solve the same problem successfully.
Use youtube-ios-player-helper and add the code:
You can find more vars in Youtube > IFrame API.
I've used this class just for that.
The video you see inside the
UIViewController
is playable in its current size.That's the only code I've used:
For Vimeo player you can check this link https://github.com/lilfaf/YTVimeoExtractor it plays the video in real player and if you want to run the video in uiwebview,here is the code for that https://stackoverflow.com/a/15918011/1865424.
Pass you URL of YouTube Video in “urlStr”.
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Hope This Will Help You Out. If this doesn't help you out please check out these links:-
http://blog.softwareispoetry.com/2010/03/how-to-play-youtube-videos-in-your.html
https://gist.github.com/darkredz/5334409
http://maniacdev.com/2012/02/open-source-library-for-easily-playing-a-youtube-video-in-an-mpmovieplayer
Use this
I definitely suggest youtube_ios_player_helper, "sponsored by" Google.
If you wanna play youtube, here's a link to youtube player project on github, It's really helpful. and yes it is possible to play it in your uiwebview, just give the webview the url and tell it to load, it shouldn't open in the default player, as far as i believe at least.