B4J Question Video on WebView Question

[giga]

Is it possible to play a youtube video directly in webview without downloading it?

or does this require the youtube api to make it work?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Erel]

Have you tried it? Did it work?

 

[giga]

Yes I tried directly through webview and the entire youtube screen appears with the ads etc... but the video windows states "an error occurred" Please try again later

as you can see here:


.

If I copy the entire address and paste it in I.E or Mozilla it comes up and plays.

 

[Erel]

I see it too. I'm not sure whether YouTube is blocking it for some reason or that it is a problem in JavaFX WebView.

 

[giga]

What is the current version of webview? Maybe that is the problem.

I could not get this to work either.

JViewWeb.LoadUrl("http://www.cnn.com")

it comes up blank white.

 

[Erel]

There is no version to WebView. It uses the native WebView (same version as the installed JRE).

 

[giga]

@Erel I know this is not under your control regarding the JavaFX webview video bug. Is there an alternative to playing a video in B4J from a website.

Others reporting video error in javafx.
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=6589

 

[Daestrum]

To play a video from youtube , you can fire up chrome with jShell and get that to play the video

Sub Process_Globals
    Private fx As JFX
    Private MainForm As Form
    Dim jsh As Shell
End Sub

Sub AppStart (Form1 As Form, Args() As String)
    jsh.InitializeDoNotHandleQuotes("jsh","C:/the/really/long/pathname/to/where/chrome/is/chrome.exe",Array("--app=https://www.youtube.com/embed/CTNJ51ghzdY"))
    jsh.Run(-1)
End Sub

The above will play the video in a chrome window that has no address bar etc

 

[giga]

Thanks @Daestrum Your code is an alternative and works great. My problem is if the user does not have chrome installed it won't work. I could also use jshell with iexplore.exe but I was hoping to keep the video in the app.

 

[jmon]

Playing videos from DailyMotion works

wv.LoadUrl("http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oa18s_une-video-amateur-montre-le-moment-ou-le-seisme-a-frappe-le-tibet_news")

'
wv.LoadHtml($"<iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="270" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x2bi11w" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bi11w_un-sinkhole-engloutit-une-voiture-sur-une-route-de-chine_news" target="_blank">Un &quot;sinkhole&quot; engloutit une voiture sur une...</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/lemondefr" target="_blank">lemondefr</a></i>"$)

but I tried Vimeo and Youtube, no luck....

 

[giga]

I believe it is a problem with the video format they(YouTube) are using but not certain for sure.
https://community.oracle.com/thread/3600066?start=0&tstart=0