[YouTube-API] Re: iFrame API cueVideoById causing player to resize on iPhone/iPad

Hello,

I have an update on the two issues from the engineering team.

The issue that prevented playback for all videos that are enabled for
ads on iOS devices should be resolved at this point—please let me know
if you see evidence to the contrary, with steps to reproduce and
specific video ids. There is a subset of monetized videos that still
will not play because they *require* ads, and the fact that those
videos won't play on iOS devices is not considered a bug—playback is
legitimately blocked for those videos because of the owners' policy
decisions.

The issue with the <iframe> player resizing following playback is
unfortunately still not resolved. The engineering team continues to
work on it, but given our push schedule the earliest it could be is a
week before it's fixed in production. We understand the inconvenience
that this is causing iOS developers, and appreciate everyone's
patience.

I'll continue to update this thread with more updates on the status
of the <iframe> player resizing bug.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
~ YouTube is hiring! ~ http://google.com/jobs/workyoutube ~

On Apr 5, 12:15 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Just to update folks, the Players engineering team is working to
> resolve two separate issues affecting iOS iframe playback:
>
>  One issue results in the "You need to upgrade your Flash Player..."
> error message. This message appears to be triggered when there's an
> attempt to play monetized videos (i.e. videos with ads) using the
> iframe embed on iOS WebKit. This error message is obviously
> inappropriate, since there's no Flash Player on iOS, but in the end
> the video still might not actually play even when the error message is
> changed, because not all monetized videos are currently playable on
> iOS devices.
>
>  There's another issue related to the iframe player resizing on the
> page after playback starts. That's also being worked on.
>
>  I do not yet have any information about whether one or both of those
> issues will be resolved in time for this week's push of new player
> code, which will take place Wednesday evening PDT. I'll update this
> thread with more information when I have it.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> ~ YouTube is hiring! ~http://google.com/jobs/workyoutube~
>
> On Apr 4, 10:45 am, Mbschops <mennobissch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Jeff,
>
> > We're experiencing the same problem. We are using youtube videos in a free
> > iphone-app for a festival (http://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/mm2011/id423855683?mt=8) and the festival
> > starts thursday the 7th of april 2011! All video's seem to have increased in
> > height and some won't play due to copyright restrictions or won't play with
> > an non updated flash player error.
> > Do you have a quick fix for us? We've tested the iframe method thoroughly
> > before releasing the app and every video was working, and now it is
> > broken right before the festival.
> > Can you give us an estimate of when this will be fixed and what priority
> > you're giving this bug?
>
> > Thanks, Menno
> > Zooma BV

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