Youtube iOS Player Helper not returning kYTPlayerStateUnstarted about youtube-ios-player-helper HOT 4 CLOSED

This is a difficult problem to solve that I've been struggling with recently. There are videos that trigger kYTPlayerStateUnstarted, then kYTPlayerStateBuffering then kYTPlayerStatePlaying, and there are videos that report kYTPlayerStateBuffering and then kYTPlayerStateUnstarted that never play. There are videos that report kYTPlayerStateBuffering and then never play. Its a nightmare. I would recommend avoiding using kYTPlayerStateUnstarted to detect if a video is not going to play. Infact, none of the kYTPlayerState* events can be used to do this reliably, so you are better off timing the whole load and then bailing out if YT doesn't report kYTPlayerStatePlaying after 30 seconds or so.

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ETA: this is particularly difficult around music videos with all the rights and restrictions, sometimes the embedded YT player doesn't throw an error if rights restrictions prevent the video from playing. You'll just get a kYTPlayerStateBuffering state that never ends (and never swaps to kYTPlayerStateUnstarted)

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Thanks for confirming the problem Chris. I've seen other apps that have found a way to decide more quickly if a video will play or not and a couple that have resolved the restrictions problem --at least for some videos that I cannot play. I'm wondering if there's a better YT player or another way to solve the error handling and restrictions issues. Waiting for 30 seconds is too long especially if the user just happens to be on a slow connection. Any other ideas are most welcome!

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You can use something like XCDYouTubeClient that extracts the URL directly to the .mp4, and play it directly via MPMoviePlayerController. But... this violates YouTube's terms of service.

The choice depends if you care I guess :-)

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