Embedded UIWebView YouTube Volume

Question

I'm working on an iOS app that can display YouTube videos in a UIWebView. Everything is working great except...

The first time a video is played it plays at ~10% volume. The device volume is set at 100% and the player volume shows 100% in the UI. Backing out of the web view and play a song in the app using our native streaming player then go back to the video it plays at the correct volume.

Things that don't work...

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- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    [[MPMusicPlayerController applicationMusicPlayer] setVolume:1.0];
}

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- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    [[MPMusicPlayerController iPodMusicPlayer] setVolume:1.0];
}

Both calls just flash the volume changed UI on screen and do nothing for the WebView volume.

If you have any ideas that would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

After some more research I just needed to set the playback type back from the built in audio player.

AVAudioSession *audioSession = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
BOOL ok;
NSError *setCategoryError = nil;
ok = [audioSession setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:&setCategoryError];

Something along those lines.