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Re: ubuntu phone seems to play embedded youtube videos, but not directly from youtube

 

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 5:59 AM, David Marceau <uticdmarceau2007@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> As an example of what I mean, with devel-proposed image r302, when I go
> to http://armdevices.net
> Charbax's youtube videos play decent enough with choppy frames.
>
> However, when I go directly to youtube.com, the exact same content does
> not play.  In fact none of the youtube.com content plays when I go
> directly to youtube.com to play them.
>

armdevices.net embeds youtube’s HTML5 video player, whereas clicking on the
share link takes you to youtube’s flash player, which won’t work (that’s
expected). Interestingly, if I remove the "#action=share" token from the
URL, I’m being redirected to the mobile version of youtube. I wonder why
it’s not happening when this token is present.

Note that with the mobile version of youtube, videos won’t play at the
moment, this is a known issue that is being worked on (it requires
fullscreen support, which has just landed in oxide trunk, so expect
progress on this front in the near future).

Cheers,

 Olivier

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