Monday, March 19, 2012

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

That's good to hear, Peter. Rick, can you say the same?

To be clear, there are incremental changes to the player that go out
every week, but I am not aware of a fix for this playback failure that
specifically went out this past week.

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


On Mar 16, 11:49 am, Peter <goo...@websitedevelopment.ltd.uk> wrote:
> The good news is that we are no longer seeing a problem with IFRAME
> embeded YouTube videos on iOS devices.
>
> Many thanks Jeff if that's due to your intervention.
>
> Peter
>
> On Mar 12, 9:27 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
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> > Hello Rick and Peter,
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> >  Thanks. There's a bug open with the Players engineering team to
> > investigate further.
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> > Cheers,
> > -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > @YouTubeDev
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> > On Mar 9, 12:54 pm, Rick Smith <r...@rickwsmith.com> wrote:
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> > > Peter,
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> > > I'm so happy to hear about someone else having the same problem I"m having. I felt like I was going crazy since no one else seems to have had the same issue, and since it happens so on and off.
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> > > I really hope we can track down what is happening.
> > > On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Peter wrote:
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> > > > We are seeing the same problem as Rick, he describes it exactly - even
> > > > the percentage of times it does / doesn't work.
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> > > > The only additional contribution that I have to make is that when we
> > > > moved the same HTML to another server for testing purposes, the videos
> > > > worked flawlessly. Same mark up, sameIFRAMEbut worked as it should
> > > > 100% of the time. Now surely with anIFRAMEthe hosting environment
> > > > shouldn't make a difference?
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> > > > Peter
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> > > > On Mar 6, 5:36 pm, Rick Smith <r...@rickwsmith.com> wrote:
> > > >> Jeff,
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> > > >> Thanks for the reply. I have has it tested on various iPhones running various versions of iOS, various iPhones, on wifi, and on the 3g network, and can duplicate the issue on all of them. If you view my site athttp://noahsdad.com/Ihavetested it on the iPad, and it does seem to work, which is strange. It seems like it wouldn't matter since they are both running iOS.
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> > > >> The other thing that is strange, it seems to happen randomly. 8 out of 10 times it won't play, then it will. It also doesn't matter if you view on the home page (other videos showing) or on a single page (with just one video showing.) It happens either way.
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> > > >> Thanks.
> > > >> On Mar 5, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:
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> > > >>> Hello Rick,
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> > > >>> I got a chance to test the playback experience on an iPad 1 running
> > > >>> iOS 5 just now, and I'm not able to recreate the same issues I saw on
> > > >>> Chrome on Android (which is definitely a bug that's being actively
> > > >>> investigated). It would help if there were some pattern or somewhat
> > > >>> reliable way to reproduce the issue that I could pass along to the
> > > >>> engineering team. Do you happen to know if the playback issues only
> > > >>> occur on a specific iOS release, for instance, or only on iPhones and
> > > >>> not on iPads?
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> > > >>> Cheers,
> > > >>> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> > > >>> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > > >>> @YouTubeDev
>
> > > >>> On Mar 3, 1:39 pm, Rick Smith <r...@rickwsmith.com> wrote:
> > > >>>> Thanks so much! :)
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> > > >>>> Sent from myiPhone
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> > > >>>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>> Hello,
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> > > >>>>> Something similar happens on Android phones without Flash (such as
> > > >>>>> when using the Chrome browser).
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> > > >>>>> 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
> > > >>>>> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > > >>>>> @YouTubeDev
>
> > > >>>>> 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 aniPhone 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 aniPhone. I've tested on severaliPhoneboth on
> > > >>>>>> wifi and 3g, and it happens on both.
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> > > >>>>>> I really need to figure this out since our site is video based, and we have
> > > >>>>>> such a high number of people viewing from aniPhone.
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> > > >>>>>> Thanks.
>
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