Painlessly and natively play YouTube, Vimeo, and .MP4, .MOV, .MPV, .3GP videos and fetch thumbnails on your iOS devices.
If you have been playing YouTube and Vimeo videos in a UIWebView because it is hard to figure out direct URL to an .MP4 that you can play natively on an iOS device via MPMoviePlayerViewController for superior user experience then YKMediaPlayerKit is for you.
It not only helps you play an online YouTube, Vimeo, and all natively supported formats such as .MP4, .MOV, .MPV, .3GP with a single method call but lets you asynchronously download thumbnail images for the videos too. You can also chose from Low, Medium, or High resolution videos or thumbnails.
Its blocks based and works asynchronously and returns all block callbacks on the main thread.
//Variable to hold parsed video
id<YKVideo> video;
//You can use YouTube, Vimeo, or direct video URL too.
NSString *videoURL = @"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJey_oygU3Y";
YKMediaPlayerKit *player = [[YKMediaPlayerKit alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:videoURL]];
[player parseWithCompletion:^(YKVideoTypeOptions videoType, id<YKVideo> parsedVideo, NSError *error) {
//Save parsed video to a class level property.
video = parsedVideo;
//Get thumbnails
[player thumbWithCompletion:^(UIImage *thumb, NSError *error) {
if (thumb) {
//set thumbnail to respective UIImageView.
self.imageView.image = thumb;
}
}];
}];
//Play parsed video
- (IBAction)playButtonPressed {
[self.video play:YKQualityMedium];
}
Or you can do something like below:
Play YouTube video and fetch its thumbnail.
NSString *videoLink = @""http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZ98an9wjo";"
YKYouTubeVideo *youTubeVideo = [[YKYouTubeVideo alloc] initWithContent:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink]];
//Fetch thumbnail
[youTubeVideo parseWithCompletion:^(NSError *error) {
[youTubeVideo thumbImage:YKQualityLow completion:^(UIImage *thumbImage, NSError *error) {
//Set thumbImage to UIImageView here
}];
}];
//Then play (make sure that you have called parseWithCompletion before calling this method)
[youTubeVideo play:YKQualityHigh];
Exactly the same for Vimeo videos.
NSString *videoLink = @"http://vimeo.com/42893621";
YKVimeoVideo *vimeoVideo = [[YKVimeoVideo alloc] initWithContent:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink]];
[vimeoVideo parseWithCompletion:^(NSError *error) {
[vimeoVideo thumbImage:YKQualityLow completion:^(UIImage *thumbImage, NSError *error) {
//Set thumbImage to UIImageView here
}];
}];
//Then play (make sure that you have called parseWithCompletion before calling this method)
[vimeoVideo play:YKQualityHigh];
Finaly playing and fetching thumbnails from an iOS supported native video format such as .MP4, .MOV, .MPV, .3GP
NSString *videoLink = @"http://download.wavetlan.com/SVV/Media/HTTP/BlackBerry.mov";
YKDirectVideo *directVideo = [[YKDirectVideo alloc] initWithContent:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink]];
[directVideo thumbImage:YKQualityLow completion:^(UIImage *thumbImage, NSError *error) {
//Set thumbImage to UIImageView here
}];
//Then play
[directVideo play:YKQualityHigh];
If using CocoaPods then add this to your pods file pod 'YKMediaPlayerKit' and update pods
Or, simply drag and drop YKMediaPlayerKit folder to your project.
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Copyright (c) 2014 Yas Kuraishi
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HCYoutubeParser by Simon Andersson's - https://github.com/hellozimi/HCYoutubeParser