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Tony Huynh
Tony Huynh

Reputation: 39

Youtube IFrame API onError fires with error code 150 for videos from Vevo

Let me explain my scenario. I want to use Youtube IFrame API to embed some videos on my website. I tested the video with id wdGZBRAwW74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGZBRAwW74) on this page: Youtube IFrame Player Demo. And it works OK.

I try this example code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<!-- 1. The <iframe> (and video player) will replace this <div> tag. -->
<div id="player"></div>

<script>
  // 2. This code loads the IFrame Player API code asynchronously.
  var tag = document.createElement('script');
  tag.src = "//www.youtube.com/iframe_api";
  var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
  firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);

  // 3. This function creates an <iframe> (and YouTube player)
  //    after the API code downloads.
  var player;
  function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() {
    player = new YT.Player('player', {
      height: '390',
      width: '640',
      videoId: 'wdGZBRAwW74',
      events: {
        'onReady': onPlayerReady,
        'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange,
        'onError': onPlayerError
      }
    });
  }

  // 4. The API will call this function when the video player is ready.
  function onPlayerReady(event) {
    event.target.playVideo();
  }

  // 5. The API calls this function when the player's state changes.
  //    The function indicates that when playing a video (state=1),
  //    the player should play for six seconds and then stop.
  var done = false;
  function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
    if (event.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING && !done) {
      setTimeout(stopVideo, 6000);
      done = true;
    }
  }

  function onPlayerError(event){
     console.log(event.data);
  }

  function stopVideo() {
    player.stopVideo();
  }
</script>
</body>
</html>

with some virtual host domains on my localhost and i got result:

  1. with domain app.centaur.com/youtube/index.htm: IFrame API work OK, the video play without problems.
  2. with domain app.music.com/youtube/index.html: IFrame API work OK, but the video can not play, API fires onError with error 150 and the embedded player show message "This video contains content from VEVO, who has blocked it from display on this website. Watch on Youtube"
  3. with domain app.musiccentaur.com/youtube/index.htm: like first case, everything work ok
  4. with domain app.centaurmusic.com/youtube/: like first case, everything work ok

As i know error 150 stand for "The owner of the requested video does not allow it to be played in embedded players". But i see it still work in case 1, 3, 4, so what is it mean ?

Seem all of videos by Vevo related to this problems. I'm not sure if Vevo defined some policy for embedding their videos.

Maybe the problem come from my domain music.com, but i'm not sure there is some rules of domain to embed Vevo's video on websites.

What if i buy a domain for my website then i got error 150, this is so bad. :(

Is there anyone deal with this before? Please give me some solutions. Thanks in advance.

Note: this error only occurs on Vevo's videos.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5978

Answers (1)

Jeff Posnick
Jeff Posnick

Reputation: 56044

Content owners are allowed to set up a white/black list of domain names on which embedding is allowed/denied. There is no way to work around these restriction.

This blog post has a bit more info about content restrictions in general: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/12/understanding-playback-restrictions.html

Upvotes: 2

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