Play YouTube videos with MPMoviePlayerController instead of UIWebView

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I'm trying to stream some youTube videos using the MPMoviePlayerController but I'm having some problems. The code I'm using is pretty simple and I can play .m4v videos by passing a URL to initWithContentURL. When I launch the movie player the player comes up but just goes away after about 20 seconds. When I try it in the simulator I get an alert view that says the server is not configured correctly. Is there an argument I need to pass with the URL to get a specific type of video feed from google?

NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.youtube.com/v/HGd9qAfpZio&hl=en_US&fs=1&"];
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer;
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];

[moviePlayer play];

I've also tried the following URL's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGd9qAfpZio

I have also seen the argument &format=1 and tried to add that to the end of both of the strings but no luck.

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8 Answers

There is an official way to embed YouTube video in iOS application which is provided by Google.

Install library via cocoapods: pod "youtube-ios-player-helper"

import by: #import “YTPlayerView.h” Use UIView and set class to YTPlayerView or create object of YTPlayerView programatically.

Load video: [self.playerView loadWithVideoId:@"M7lc1UVf-VE"];

There is also playVideo and stopVideo methods available. For more info visit this Link

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