Playing youtube video with MPMoviePlayerController

Question

i\'ve been using an html string for a long period for playing youtube videos through an UIWebView, the problem is i want to get notifications with playbackstate changed. i\'

Answer 1

For me this library did work perfectly! https://github.com/hellozimi/HCYoutubeParser

moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init];    
moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
moviePlayer.fullscreen = YES;
moviePlayer.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatModeNone;
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleDefault;
moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
moviePlayer.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit;

After this call method.

[self callYouTubeURL:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://www.youtube.com/embed/%@",_urlcode]];

In this method parse youtube link.

- (void)callYouTubeURL:(NSString *)urlLink
{

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlLink];
    actvity.hidden = NO;
    [HCYoutubeParser thumbnailForYoutubeURL:url thumbnailSize:YouTubeThumbnailDefaultHighQuality completeBlock:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error) {

        if (!error) {

            [HCYoutubeParser h264videosWithYoutubeURL:url completeBlock:^(NSDictionary *videoDictionary, NSError *error) {


                NSDictionary *qualities = videoDictionary;

                NSString *URLString = nil;
                if ([qualities objectForKey:@"small"] != nil) {
                    URLString = [qualities objectForKey:@"small"];
                }
                else if ([qualities objectForKey:@"live"] != nil) {
                    URLString = [qualities objectForKey:@"live"];
                }
                else {
                    [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" message:@"Couldn't find youtube video" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Close" otherButtonTitles: nil] show];
                    return;
                }
                _urlToLoad = [NSURL URLWithString:URLString];


                [self urlLoadintoPlayer];

            }];
        }
        else {
            UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" message:[error localizedDescription] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Dismiss" otherButtonTitles:nil];
            [alert show];
        }
    }];
}

After this load newly parse url into player.

-(void)urlLoadintoPlayer
{
    moviePlayer.contentURL = _urlToLoad;
}