YouTube Embed player in Iframe doesn't work in iOS6

I really need your help. Working on an iOS app. I want to play youtube. I understood from reading many many blogs and posts, that we need to use an iframe in order to play a youtube video.

However, on some videos I get: "This video contains content from XYZ. It is restricted from playback on certain sites. Watch on YouTube"

I read this question: Youtube in iOS5 - done button Tapped which gives the link to youtube api: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters They recommend to use the iframe.
the example for youtube site is:

<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="640" height="390"
  src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M7lc1UVf-VE?autoplay=1&origin=http://example.com"
  frameborder="0"/>

The code I used:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
* {
    border:0;
    margin:0;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <iframe webkit-playsinline id="player" type="text/html" width="320" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rEevIL1Wpcg?enablejsapi=1&playsinline=1&autoplay=1" frameborder="0">
    </iframe>
</body>
</html>

Can someone help me understand it? I check the embedded flag to be true, they are all clips that are allowed to play on mobile devices.

Example for videos that works on the device:

Example for videos that don't work on the device and bring up the error msg:

you can use webview as youtube player

Try Below Code it is working for me

in .h file

@property (strong, nonatomic) UIWebView *webView;

and in your .m file

    NSString *videoURL = @"http://www.youtube.com/embed/M7lc1UVf-VE?autoplay=1&origin=http://example.com";

// if your url is not in embed format or it is dynamic then you have to convert it in embed format.

    videoURL = [videoURL stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"watch?v=" withString:@"embed/"];

    NSRange range = [videoURLString rangeOfString:@"&"];
    @try {
         videoURLString = [videoURLString substringToIndex:range.location];
    }
    @catch (NSException *exception) {

    }

    // here your link is converted in embed format.

    NSString* embedHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\
    <html><head>\
    <style type=\"text/css\">\
    iframe {position:absolute; top:50%%; margin-top:-130px;}\
    body {\
        background-color: transparent;\
    color: white;\
    }\
    </style>\
    </head><body style=\"margin:0\">\
    <iframe width=\"100%%\" height=\"240px\" src=\"%@\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\
    </body></html>",videoURL];

    self.webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 460)];
    [self.view addSubview:self.webView];
    [self.webView loadHTMLString:embedHTML baseURL:nil];

Here you can change webview frame as you want and also can change videoUrl.

There are two concepts, embeddable and syndicated. iOS devices use iframe so they basically embed. Android devices that use player API can check syndicated.

When you do a search->list, you can set videoEmbeddable and videoSyndicated to true.

Or if you are iterating through videos, for each video, you can do a video->list call with video id and check status.embeddable in the response.

Here is a blog post about this topic, even though examples are in v2, information is still relevant.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19339575/youtube-embed-player-in-iframe-doesnt-work-in-ios6

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