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

Official way to play youtube videos: 1) UIWebView with the embed tag from Youtube the UIWebView's content.2) Using youtube-ios-player-helper[Google official way]

Unfortunately, there's no way to directly play a youtube video with MPMoviePlayerController because youtube does not expose direct links to the video files.

There are library which runs youtube videos through MPMoviePlayerController, but they are against the TOC of youtube. Hence simplest method is to go for youtube-ios-player-helper.

In case youtube-ios-player-helper pod doesn't work you can add YTPlayer.h/.m and assets folder to your project and write a bridge header with #import "YTPlayerView.h" and rest procedure you can follow on https://github.com/youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper This definitely worked for me!