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HTML5 video tag and Youtube

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HTML5 video tag and Youtube

Postby eZACKe » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:51 am

I don't understand what needs to be done differently to make this work:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
  <title>My Weblog</title> 
</head>

<body>
<video width="640"  height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U"  controls autobuffer> </video>
</body>
</html>


I've tried running this in Chrome, FF, and Safari and it doesn't work in either. Is this how you take a video from Youtube and use it within the video element, or am I missing a step?

In Safari and Chrome the video first shows the controls and then they disappear and you clicking on the Play icon does nothing. In FF it just shows a gray screen with a X in it.

Just started experimenting with HTML5 and can't quite understand this. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: Just worth mentioning that if I go the HTML4 approach it works in all 3 browsers:
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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px;" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U" /></object>
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Re: HTML5 video tag and Youtube

Postby JAB Creations » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:27 pm

I think the problem is that you're loading the Flash container that itself loads the video source file(s) subjective to what resolution you load (e.g. 240,360, 720, 1080). I think you'll have to figure out how YouTube automates that and choose which resolution to use. Offhand I don't know if that will require either client or server side scripting though I wanted to at least point you in the correct direction. :)
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