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I've been trying to embed YouTube videos inside my phonegap Android app using the new YouTube iframe API.
The embed itself working and a YouTube window pops in with the preview picture and the play button in the center.
The problem is when I click the button to start streaming the video the embed doesn't play the video - just loads the preview picture in and does nothing.

The code used is below if it helps.

 & lt;iframe title="YouTube video player"
class="YouTube-player" type="text/HTML" width="320" height="194"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxxxx" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I read from any article that if using iPhone just change setting on phonegap.plist this 
MediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction: NO
AllowInlineMediaPlayback: YES
OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView: YES
ExternalHosts
          *.youtube.com
          *.ytimg.com
how about in android...?
Erlangga
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Please used this plugin to play youtube video in android-phonegap application.
Please follow steps given in this blog.

After successful integration of plugin used following code to play youtube video:

window.plugins.videoPlayer.play("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UV5i5jY50");
Mayur Birari
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I had the same problem. In my case (Phonegap 2.9 + Android 4.2) the problem was minSdkVersion in AndroidManifest.xml. 

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" />

When I tried to set it lower than '14' it ceased to display video stream like in your case (the preview was still ok)

Update:

.. but if you add enable hardware acceleration in AndroidManifest.xml, everything works fine even with lower versions of Android

android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

Everything is explained in details in this post

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user3868948
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Check if in console you have any error like "access denied" when loading the video, if that's the case: edit your config.xml file and add

<access origin="http://youtube.com" subdomains="true" />
<access origin="http://ytimg.com" subdomains="true"/>
Kerlos Bekhit
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