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YouTube HTML5 Bug and Workaround

2012-01-25
hey guys this is Adam lamp and I know a few of you are kind of frustrated with the way some of our YouTube videos display or don't display on your mobile device so in this video I'm going to show the bug explain why that happens and show you a workaround so you can watch videos so first off let me do the windows phone I have a review loaded and if we scroll a little bit we see video and you think I could press play and it would play but it gives us an error message about not having any of the videos available the reason this happens is because we have revenue-sharing enabled on these videos and that uses flash to display the ads so when I press play it's going to try to use the flash version and YouTube's iframe embed code is not smart enough to recognize that this is a Windows Phone that supports html5 and it should show in html5 video same with the iPhone you can see this one does not load it just goes black however with android youtube actually does recognize the browser and put gives us an html5 video this does not have Flash installed but you can see it's still going to work well maybe anyway you work around for this oh yeah yeah there's this that was working so YouTube made sure that it works on Android and on Windows Phone - to get the videos to work let's find another one what I do is tap this title and that's just going to load the video in the YouTube html5 website which is programmed to send us an html5 video so we know that it plays on what is found and that is just going to load the video right there in a place so we find I've volumes on view same with the iPhone I tap the title that is going to ask me if I want to open it in YouTube and then I get a nice full screen view of that video so there's your workaround it's kind of annoying I know that YouTube doesn't send the proper video to the proper web browser but the work is pretty easy give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and if you want to contact YouTube feel free to let them know about this book and how annoying it is that's it for now
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