[YouTube-API] Re: " setPlaybackQuality " changed unwanted behaviour (broken)

Hello DJ,

This change in behavior was not intended, and it should revert back
to the old functionality in the code push that takes place in the
middle of next week.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev

On Jan 13, 11:57 am, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello DJ,
>
>  I'll check with the Players API team to see whether this behavior was
> intentionally changed for some reason, and if it was inadvertent
> whether they'll be able to revert it to the old behavior.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> @YouTubeDev
>
> On Jan 13, 8:26 am, ytApi1234 <ytApi1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have embedded the standard as3 PLAYLIST-PLAYER (swfobj) and added
> > some javascript-control.
> > One of the addtions i made is a "HD-button" which sets playback-
> > quality when clicked, like this:
>
> > function hdYesNo() {
> >     ytSwfPlayer = document.getElementById( 'ytplayer_object' );
> >     ytSwfPlayer.setPlaybackQuality('hd720');
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> > Since this is the playlistplayer the behaviour was that the whole list
> > of videos would play
> > in the quality choosen ..ie the rest of the list would play in the
> > same quality as the current (if available).
>
> > This has been working fine for months
> > But since a few days this is broken and clicking on my "HD-button" now
> > only sets the quality
> > for the current video...the next video in the list will play in the
> > default quality (related to player-size).
> > ie: the previous behaviour where same quality will play for the whole
> > list...is broken.
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> > But this functionality is not broken when i set the quality of the
> > current video using the standard
> > quality-selector on the player-bar...ie: i set the current quality to
> > 720 then the rest of the list
> > will nicely play in 720......and that is how it should be from js-
> > control also.
>
> > My request is to repair this to how it was before
> > ie: setting a quality using javascript-controls should make the whole
> > list play in that quality
> > just as it will do on the standardplayer without js-controls...there
> > is no need to have 2 different behaviours
> > so my guess is that it was broken due to some other change.
>
> > Your reply is appriciated.

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