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TehGM
TehGM

Reputation: 219

YouTube iframe looping video unavailable on first load

I embed a video on a Blazor-powered static page. I want the video to loop. According to docs (https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#loop), I need to have both loop and playlist params. Easy enough.

So I generate URL like this: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tFbVZCbLhOk?autoplay=1&loop=1&modestbranding=1&disablekb=1&playsinline=1&rel=0&fs=0&playlist=tFbVZCbLhOk&controls=1&origin=http://localhost:5134 - as you can see, loop is set to 1, and playlist is set to the same video itself tFbVZCbLhOk.

The problem I am having is that when the video is embedded (or the link is accessed directly - the issue occurs there as well), it errors with This video is unavailable. Refreshing the page fixes that, however it of course is less than perfect. I am not sure what causes this, as some videos appear to randomly work on first attempt - but it's inconsistent, cause the same video might fail other time.

Removing the playlist param fixes the issue, but then the video doesn't loop properly, which is even worse for my use case.

I am not sure if it's a regression on YouTube's side, as a month or two ago, I did not have that issue - I think so at least.
It also seems like it's not bound to the tab or anything like that - when I open video once, next time I open it on a separate tab, it works - almost like if YT took its sweet time to create playlist for the video, but that's just my guess

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2468

Answers (2)

Zoltán Szikra
Zoltán Szikra

Reputation: 1

<iframe onload="this.src+='';this.onload='';"

This reload once the iframe and after that it stops. I hope it will help you.

Upvotes: 0

Marco Aurelio Fernandez Reyes
Marco Aurelio Fernandez Reyes

Reputation: 2421

I tried your video sample (i.e. tFbVZCbLhOk) and with the following code (which I modified from this answer), and the looping of the video works fine:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tFbVZCbLhOk?enablejsapi=1&loop=1&playlist=tFbVZCbLhOk&autoplay=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&color=white

Probably what you're describing is another YouTube undocumented change.

Upvotes: 0

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