Playback restricted on iOS for VEVO videos from YouTube API

Question

I have embedded videos (pulled from YouTube API v3) into my iPhone app using a UIWebView as suggested. The problem is that some videos, such as those from VEVO, produce the fol

Answer 1

Using YouTube's YTPlayerView for iOS and setting the origin property to a valid URL allows many VEVO videos to be played properly.

In your View Controller:

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet YTPlayerView *playerView;

// ..

NSDictionary *playerVars = @{
                             @"playsinline" : @1,
                             @"showinfo" : @0,
                             @"rel" : @0,
                             @"controls" : @1,
                             @"origin" : @"https://www.example.com", // this is critical
                             @"modestbranding" : @1
                             };

[self.playerView loadWithVideoId:@"Ri7-vnrJD3k" playerVars:playerVars];

With origin:

Without origin: