Replace YoutubeWebView with AVPlayer about conferences.digital

[zagahr]

No, not for now. But it would be nice to use fullscreen or PiP mode in the future.

[kandelvijaya]

This is interesting in both how youtube works and what we want to do. Just to be clear: are there any significant drawbacks for using YoutubeWebView for now?

[arguiot]

Great idea 👍! I wouldn't recommend re-uploading videos, but what you can do is take the video URL from the youtube player and use AVPlayer from that. Many apps do that (so I believe it's legal).

In order to do that, you can use https://github.com/mojilala/YoutubeSourceParserKit or do something like IINA: download the video before reading it using youtube-dl

[zagahr]

Thank you for your feedback!

Unfortunately frameworks like YouTubeSourceParserKit are against YouTub‘s ToC.

„Warning: This repo is for educational purposes. This is not approved by the ToC of YouTube. Use at own risk.“

[rolandkakonyi]

Hi @zagahr! What about adding a fullscreen button and grow the WKWebView to take the whole window and trigger it become full screen?
This is just an idea from top of my head. It could be a lite solution to support full screen.

Note: I have 0 mac development experience, so I'm not sure if this can work, but would be nice.

[paulofierro]

WKWebView's PIP support appears to be currently iOS only. Fullscreen could be possible via a custom button that handles this transition manually or uses the Javascript Full Screen API

Unfortunately following Youtube's ToS leads to a worse user experience, which is probably why this particular section is often ignored 😕

I would love to use the native player instead (and enable the PIP and fullscreen buttons) 😅