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Marius Constantinescu
Marius Constantinescu

Reputation: 659

Video restricted from playback on certain sites, even though embed is allowed

I am creating an iOS app that uses the youtube iOS player helper. It works fine, but for some videos, when trying to play them, I get 'This video contains content from [YYY]. It is restricted from playback on certain sites'.

The metadata for one of the videos that doesn't work is here: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/KJB49SAHIKM?v=2&prettyprint=true.

And http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/dRgPi1OPBeA?v=2&prettyprint=true is the metadata for a video that works.

The embed permission seems to be the same. What could the problem be? Is there something I'm missing? I know that 'syndicate' is denied for the video that doesn't work, but I also have a video with syndicate and embed allowed that doesn't play and gives the same error, so I assume there must be something else.

Also, I have access to the channels that uploaded those two videos. Are there any settings for the individual videos that have to be set for them to be able to be embedded?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1361

Answers (2)

atulkhatri
atulkhatri

Reputation: 11333

Add player vars while initializing youtube sdk:

NSDictionary *playerVars = @{
                             @"origin" : @"http://www.youtube.com",
                             };
[self.playerView loadWithVideoId:@"KOvoD1upTxM" playerVars:playerVars];

Enjoy!

Upvotes: 2

Hem Acharya
Hem Acharya

Reputation: 258

I had the same issue but it seems like its due to the fact that publishers have restricted the video to be played outside youtube.com. If you own the channel and videos then probably you have a setting that restricts playback of videos outside youtube. For other videos that I dont have access to I put an option to watch it on youtube that would fire up native youtube app with the video loaded.

Upvotes: 0

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