[YouTube-API] Re: How to access MP4 file using YouTube API from an iPad app

Hi Jeffery,

This post is a little old now so I am wondering how much it has changed.

I have been reading the YouTube API docs and most of it is focused on client interactions over an oAuth session.

I would really like to be able to use YouTube as a medium to post preview videos for my clients, and then stream them to a custom player in some iOS and Android App as mp4 files from YouTube. The support for flash is sketchy, and I just don't like it.

Is this at all possible ?

Or are we still restricted to using the flash players as the basis for building custom YouTube apps ?

Cheers
John

On Monday, March 7, 2011 5:56:43 PM UTC+1, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:

Hello,

 If you'd like to build your own "custom" player, the starting point
is usually the official Chromeless Player API. Unfortunately for your
purposes, this is Flash-only. It's possible to use the <iframe> method
of embedding videos and hide some of the UI chrome (e.g. via
controls=0: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html#controls)
but this may or may not give you the level of control you're looking
for.

 We definitely don't offer raw access to a high-quality MP4 video
stream, though. You need to go through one of the official Player
APIs.

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


On Mar 4, 9:36 am, Pinaki Saha <pinaki.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, you can. YouTube allows you to access the media file for playback
> using their API. Again, not to download the file, but to build custom apps
> around their video stream. And YouTube, with certain limitations, allows you
> to fully monetize with their streams.

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