YouTube HTML5 Bug and Workaround

Some of you have been frustrated when trying to watch the YouTube videos embedded in Pocketnow articles on a mobile device. We've been investigating this problem and it turns out that it only happens with YouTube videos that have revenue sharing turned on. YouTube's iFrame embed code is supposed to be able to detect the user's browser and feed them a video in an appropriate format. On Windows Phone 7 and iOS 5, YouTube's code doesn't send the correct type of video. We've talked to the IE mobile for Windows Phone team and they've found that YouTube's embed code tries to send a Flash-based video with advertisements anyway even though it should be simple to detect that the user has a device that does not support Flash. Interestingly, YouTube has programmed their iFrame embed code to recognize the Android browser and feed a playable video to those pages without ads.




The work around for you as a user is pretty simple. Zoom in a bit on the video and instead of tapping the play button on the video graphic, tap the title of the video on the top edge. On Windows Phone 7, this will open the video's HTML5-based YouTube page (if you have your browser set to "mobile" view mode) which does correctly load an HTML5 video that plays perfectly in Windows Phone. On Apple iOS devices, you can do the same thing... just tap the title instead of the video's play button and it will ask if you want to open the video in the YouTube app which will subsequently play the video perfectly.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• YouTube
• HTML5
• Bug
• and
• Workaround
• Windows Phone
• iOS
• iphone
• android

[Grimdopple]

too bad the people that cant watch the video wont find this.

[sonicfreak360]

@mirceaingi You are one of those ignorant users who doesn't understand how important the ads are...

[Buttpirate87]

F@$& android

[steven781227]

Umm.. youtube hasn't worked on my android since the last update.

DOWLOAD "YouTube music and audio player" IT PLAYS ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS

[iTube145]

that was an iPod Touch, not an iPhone

[doitdeviant]

@MusicVideoJunkie33 Android = Google = Youtube ; naturally they'd make their products compatible with each other :)

[mrey555]

Android rules

[krisqz]

Umm... almost 4 minutes for simple 'click the title instead of play'?? Wow...

[Juanscv92]

@zviki68 Ovi Maps is one thing... YouTube is another matter entirely. Ovi Maps was launched exclusively for Nokia phones at first... YouTube is pretty much a platform agnostic service used by anyone with an internet connection, even if Google bought it.

[PSRBF6]

@stolic2012 the 710 is a low end cheaper device without the chart topping specs that the 900 would have. The GS 2 is top of the range. If it was like a titan or something they wouldnt've returned it and swapped their wp7.

[stolic2012]

Just get andriod duh!!! Lol who the well uses windows phones anyway? Lol I work for t-mobile and we have seriously only sold 5 710's and 2 came back and exchanged for the GSII honestly for us to have had the GSII for 3 months already we still constantly sell out crazy right and No one has ever brought one back ....