Re: [YouTube-API] Re: Iframe videos acting strange when being viewed on iphone

Thanks so much! :)

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On Mar 3, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Jeffrey Posnick <jeffy@google.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Something similar happens on Android phones without Flash (such as
> when using the Chrome browser).
>
> I'm fairly sure this has to do with the clickthroughs on the controls
> not being properly propagated to the actual HTML5 <video> element. and
> real playback never gets triggered. I believe others have raised
> similar issues previously, and I'll follow up with the engineering
> team early next week to see what the status of the issue is.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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>
>
> On Mar 2, 4:09 pm, NoahsDad <r...@rickwsmith.com> wrote:
>> We have a site <http://noahsdad.com/> where we post a daily video and when
>> the site is viewed from an iPhone 7 out of 10 times the videos play. Other
>> times you see a thumbnail, try to hit play, and just get a black screen
>> with a youtbube logo. It's very strange. Sometimes it does it, sometimes it
>> doesn't do it. Sometimes if you go to a single page the video will work,
>> and then go back to the front page and it doesn't work. It only seems to be
>> happening when viewed on an iPhone. I've tested on several iPhone both on
>> wifi and 3g, and it happens on both.
>>
>> I really need to figure this out since our site is video based, and we have
>> such a high number of people viewing from an iPhone.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
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