{"id":563,"date":"2013-11-01T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powered-by-haiku.co.uk\/?p=563"},"modified":"2016-01-13T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:19:20","slug":"jwtube-making-jwplayer-6-work-with-youtube-in-html5-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powered-by-haiku.co.uk\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"jwTube: Making JWPlayer 6 work with YouTube in HTML5 mode"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE:<\/strong> With the recent release of JW6.9 (30th June 2014) the JW Team have fully integrated the YouTube iFrame API into the player. As a result jwTube should not be used with JW6.9+ as the two don’t play well together!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

With the recent update of Apple’s iOS to version 7, JW Player implementations that use YouTube as a media format have started to experience issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The main problem is that YouTube videos appear to halve in height – even though the JW Player container remains the correct height.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The JW Player team have acknowledged this to be an issue<\/a>, and have stated that it will be addressed in JW 6.8 – which is not likely to be available until early 2014.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: This has now been resolved in JW6.8 (released 6th Feb 2014), however JW playlists and event hookup in HTML5 mode are still missing.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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In order to fill the void between now and then, I have developed a “patch” to resolve this issue.<\/p>\n

Whilst I was at it, I also decided to address a few other JW Player 6 + YouTube + HTML5 mode<\/em> annoyances, such as:<\/p>\n