[YouTube-API] Re: getVideoBytesTotal() returns either 0 or a some random value

Hello Poorva,

There are some scenarios in which getVideoBytesTotal() won't return
an actual number of bytes, but rather a value that can divide the
getVideoBytesLoaded() value to get the fraction of the video that's
loaded. So

getVideoBytesLoaded() / getVideoBytesTotal() == percentage of video
loaded

"Fake" byte values were previously limited to HTML5 <video> playback,
but there are some scenarios in which it is now used when doing Flash-
based playback as well. It's explained in more detail at

https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Operations

Moving forward, we might introduce a new method that returns that
percentage of video that's loaded directly and recommend calling that
directly instead of having to deal with the functions that operate on
bytes.

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


On May 24, 1:29 am, Poorva06 <poorva.agra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get total size of video by retrieving the value from
> getVideoBytesTotal(). But this returns 0 most of the time. And if it
> returns a non-zero value than this value is not consistent. It keeps
> changing thorugh out the session.
>
> Can you please help me and suggest any way i can get the size of the
> video.
>
> Regards,
> Poorva

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