How to play youtube/vimeo video within the application in iPhone
I am building an application where I want to play video from url like Youtube, Vimeo, Direct url. I am making custom player using AVPlayer to play a video from a direct url of video clip(like www.abc/play.mp4). But later I faced a huge issue to play youtube & vimeo video. And after searching a lot I found these link where it says without using UIWebview I can't play a Youtube link:
Play YouTube videos with MPMoviePlayerController instead of UIWebView
Playing video from youtube link without UIWebView
So I just used this code:
NSString *youTubeVideoHTML = @"<html><head><style>body{margin:0;}</style></head> <body> <div id=\"player\"></div> <script> var tag = document.createElement('script'); tag.src = 'http://www.youtube.com/player_api'; var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag); var player; function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() { player = new YT.Player('player', { width:\'100%%\', height:'200px', videoId:\'%@\', events: { 'onReady': onPlayerReady } }); } function onPlayerReady(event) { event.target.playVideo(); } </script> </body> </html>";
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:youTubeVideoHTML, videoId];
self.embedded_player_view.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO;
[self.embedded_player_view loadHTMLString:html baseURL:[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourceURL]];
Now when I click on youtube/Vimeo video link from tableview its playing the video with the default player i.e. quicktime player. Its not running the video within the UIWebview frame itself. But I want to show the video in the 1st half of the screen i.e my UIWebview frame. Is that possible?
In my app I can see this:
when clicking on red play button I can see the video in full screen in quicktime player like this:
But I want to show the video within the same webView frame not via quick time player. It should play like this:
Same does in MusicTube and PlayTube.
Or is there any other way to achieve the same? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Answer
I've used this class just for that.
The video you see inside the UIViewController is playable in its current size.
That's the only code I've used:
UIView *videoContainerView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 50, 320, 200)];
[self.view addSubview:videoContainerView];
XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController *videoPlayerViewController = [[XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController alloc] initWithVideoIdentifier:@"_OBlgSz8sSM"];
[videoPlayerViewController presentInView:videoContainerView];
[videoPlayerViewController.moviePlayer play];