How to play a Vimeo video in iOS?

Question

I've tried to search to web, but I couldn't find a topic not older than 1 year regarding this problem, therefore;

How can I play a Vimeo video in an iOS App?

EDIT1: When using the solution I'm sometimes getting this HTTP response from Vimeo

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Why?

You mean, without using a `UIWebView`? – phi Nov 29 '11 at 09:02 — phi, Nov 29 '11 at 09:02

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 05:52

This is my way of play a Vimeo video inside a app.

I am using iFrame to load Vimeo video inside my app.

follow this steps and you will too.

create a uiwebview and connect it to your .h file. Mine is _webView.

Add this method to your .m file.

-(void)embedVimeo{

NSString *embedHTML = @"<iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\" src=\"http://www.vimeo.com/embed/rOPI5LDo7mg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>";

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:embedHTML];

[_webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];
[self.view addSubview:_webView];
}

I am using the embedded code in Vimeo video. (I hope you know what it is)

call this method inside your viewdidload

[self embedVimeo];

Run the app and you will see the video in your view. This way is perfectly working for me and i think this will help for your too.

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 22:29

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You can use YTVimeoExtractor, works fine for me.

answered Feb 20 '13 at 22:29

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Is this future proof? – user623396 Apr 05 '14 at 07:11
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is anything future proof? – PICyourBrain Mar 27 '15 at 12:56
No it is not future proof, nor supported in any way by Vimeo. – Dashron May 12 '15 at 16:25
The project is still maintained and new features are coming. You can go ahead and use it :) – Louis Larpin May 20 '15 at 13:21
Not to be a downer, but I'm certain this isn't allowed in the Vimeo ToS :/ – jterry Jun 24 '15 at 02:04

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 08 '13 at 06:56

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Please try this, It works for me, just some lines of code.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    vimeoHelper = [[VimeoHelper alloc] init];
    [vimeoHelper getVimeoRedirectUrlWithUrl:@"http://vimeo.com/52760742" delegate:(id)self];
}

- (void)finishedGetVimeoURL:(NSString *)url
{
    _moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
    [self presentViewController:_moviePlayerController animated:NO completion:nil];
}

edited Aug 08 '13 at 06:56

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answered Feb 06 '13 at 07:29

user1140633

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Is this allowed by Vimeo ToS? I know YouTube doesn't allow direct parsing of video files. – user623396 Apr 05 '14 at 07:09

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 13 '12 at 11:41

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You can use this code

NSString *htmlStringToLoad = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://player.vimeo.com/video/%@?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\%%22%%20width=\%%22%0.0f\%%22%%20height=\%%22%0.0f\%%22%%20frameborder=\%%230\%%22", videoID];
        [aWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:htmlStringToLoad]]];

edited Dec 13 '12 at 11:41

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answered Nov 29 '11 at 09:22

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Thanks for your solution. But it seems that this only works with some videos? For my video I get this message "This video can't be played with your setup" whereas other videoes are working fine (like this http://vimeo.com/32424117). Why? – dhrm Nov 29 '11 at 09:33
Do I need a Vimeo Plus account? – dhrm Nov 29 '11 at 09:59
I don't know really, in YouTube I know there is some videos that is private videos or restricted to some regions, therefore they cannot be embedded. Anyway,try to work with Vimeo API(for iOS), and fetch the error received from server. – NadavN7 Nov 29 '11 at 11:10
Downvoted this ``UIWebView`` solution, because it's way better to use ``MPMoviePlayerController`` instead of the large webkit. – Christian Beer Mar 18 '13 at 10:03
@ChristianBeer sure, but that is not always possible. – Jon Willis Oct 08 '13 at 18:11

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 04 '15 at 17:53

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I've used this code:

NSString *embedSr = @"<iframe width=\"304\"height=\"350\" src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/... \" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>";

[[self WebView] loadHTMLString:embedSr baseURL:nil];

edited Feb 04 '15 at 17:53

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answered Oct 10 '13 at 16:04

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 20:16

Use Below Code the it will work fine

NSMutableString *html = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithCapacity:1] ;
[html appendString:@"<html><head>"];
[html appendString:@"<style type=\"text/css\">"];
[html appendString:@"body {"];
[html appendString:@"background-color: transparent;"];
[html appendString:@"color: white;"];
[html appendString:@"}"];
[html appendString:@"</style>"];
[html appendString:@"</head><body style=\"margin:0\">"];
[html appendString:@"<iframe src=\"//player.vimeo.com/video/84403700?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>"];
[html appendString:@"</body></html>"];


[viewWeb loadHTMLString:html baseURL:urlMovie];

What is `urlMovie` supposed to be set as? You don't show that definition in your code. :) — Clifton Labrum, May 01 '14 at 23:32

score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Jun 16 '15 at 13:41

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I've tried the universal player, it is successful in device with iOS 5, but failed in iOS 4.2 with iPhone 3G. I don't know why. Here's the link to embed it.

Or you can embed manually from the Vimeo site, click embed, and configure the config as you wish.

edited Jun 16 '15 at 13:41

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answered Dec 28 '11 at 08:36

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