How to make setPlaybackQuality work?

[chiakie]

First, I've tried many solution, like http://goo.gl/OnJw0Z, but still not working.
Then I tried to invoke player.loadVideoById:startSecond:suggestQuality with hd720 during PLAYING state. But it still turns to low video quality.
Someday I tried to invoke player.setSize(1280,720), it did change quality to hd720! But video visible area is out of current player view bound (e.g. 320x180). Not a solution.

I wonder, is there any way to play high quality video on iPhone with youtube-ios-player-helper?

[Kowaio]

Hello @chiakie

I did a lot of research and tests too regarding this matter since I'd like to play a video in hd720 quality in portrait mode (with width = 375 height = 210 in my case) in order for it to not reload when rotating my device and so playing the video in the new width = 667 height = 375 (iPhone6).

However, I didn't find anything that works. The YT iframe API seems to force the reload as soon as the resolution changes, so I'm hitting a wall too here.

Another member told me that it is the correct behavior on iPhone to avoid playing a kickass quality for 3G/LTE network. However I think that forcing a reload when the user rotates its device (since we're resizing the view) is also intrusive and not smooth imho.

I hope this will be fixed soon or that a solution will present itself.

Feel free to comment our posts if anyone's got an input about that.

Thanks again,

Best regards,

K

[ssimonov]

Actually no, workaround:

- (void)initializateYTPlayerViewInView:(UIView *)view {
    NSDictionary *playerVars = @{@"controls" : @1,
                                 @"playsinline" : @1,
                                 @"autohide" : @1,
                                 @"modestbranding" : @1,
                                 @"iv_load_policy" : @3,
                                 @"rel" : @0};

    self.YTPlayerView = [YTPlayerView new];
    self.YTPlayerView.frame = view.bounds;
    self.YTPlayerView.delegate = self;
    [view addSubview:self.YTPlayerView];

    [self.YTPlayerView loadWithVideoId:@"OG2eGVt6v2o" playerVars:playerVars];  // Initialize player
}

- (void)playerViewDidBecomeReady:(YTPlayerView *)playerView {
    [self.YTPlayerView loadVideoById:@"OG2eGVt6v2o" startSeconds:0.0f suggestedQuality:kYTPlaybackQualitySmall];  // Force awful quality at start
}

- (IBAction)changeQualityAction:(id)anObject {
    [self.YTPlayerView loadVideoById:@"OG2eGVt6v2o" startSeconds:self.YTPlayerView.currentTime suggestedQuality:kYTPlaybackQualityHD720];  // Force HD Quality
}

Edited: oh yeah, they can force Medium quality, if your view doesn't fit HD quality size. But this workaround can help, if you gonna use lower qualities @ fullscreen.