Play Youtube video in a UIWebView without full screen

Question

I would like to emebed a Youtube video in my app. But normal technique is, we embed a youtube video in a UIWebView and when user clicks, it automatically launches in a MPMoviePlayerController. But this launches in full screen. How to play this youtube video in a MPMoviePlayerController without going to full screen. I would like to display this in a half of the screen.

Answer 1

There are several ways to do that. In addition to setting:

videoView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = YES;

The easiest and dirtiest way is to disable controls like this:

Method 1

Notice controls: 0

const player = new YT.Player("player", {
  width: "100%",
  height: "50%",
  videoId: "[your video id]",
  playerVars: {
    controls: 0,
    rel: 0,
    modestbranding: 1,
    html5: 1,
    showinfo: 0,
  },
});

Method 2

HTML Embedded iFrame code (notice the &controls=0 and/or &playsinline=1)

<iframe
  id="ytplayer"
  type="text/html"
  width="100%"
  src="http://www.youtube.com/[your_video_id]?autoplay=1&controls=0&playsinline=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&autohide=1&html5=1"
  webkit-playsinline
  frameborder="0"
></iframe>;

You only add &playsinline=1 (or playsinline:1 in the Javascript case next inside the playerVars) In this case, user will still be able to go full screen, but the player should start normally in the borders of your view.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

you set allowsinlinemediaplayback. but this feature on iPad. in iPhone not applicable. If you try play video with uiwebview on iPhone it will be played in full screen mode.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html