play youtube video in tvOS

Asked Mar 01 '18 at 09:03

Active Mar 01 '18 at 10:40

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I am facing some trouble with playing youtube videos in my tvOS app. I am using the popular XCDYouTubeKit to get the stream URL as shown below.

let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
XCDYouTubeClient.default().getVideoWithIdentifier(videoIdentifier) { [weak playerViewController] (video, error) in
        if(video != nil) {
            let streamURLs = video?.streamURLs
            if let streamURL = streamURLs![278] {
                print(streamURL)
                playerViewController?.player = AVPlayer(url: streamURL)
            }
        }else {
            self.printLog(logEntry: "Video not found")
            self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    }

Runs with a log entry

Task <2C60AFA3-B5B0-4D46-BB54-BCB72FDC6FC3>.<1> finished with error - code: -999

The log doesn't explain much. How to play a youtube video from a tvOS app?

edited Mar 01 '18 at 10:40

Cœur

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have you tried with AVKit? – Durdu Mar 01 '18 at 09:50
I have used avkit, updated the code – Neelesh Mar 01 '18 at 09:58
Ok, What is the best of playing a youtube video from your tvOS app? – Neelesh Mar 01 '18 at 13:17
@Neelesh I don't know, I live in China and not only Youtube is blocked by all ISP, but Apple doesn't sell the AppleTV here (you can see it's missing from https://www.apple.com/cn/). Try to read https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/ios_youtube_helper – Cœur Mar 02 '18 at 02:57
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Possible duplicate of [How to play YouTube content on tvOS](https://stackoverflow.com/a/32537719/2108547) – Daniel Storm Mar 09 '18 at 21:17
https://github.com/0xced/XCDYouTubeKit/issues/157#issuecomment-144160209 – Naresh Mar 09 '19 at 10:34

play youtube video in tvOS

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