iPhone App :How to play Youtube video in app using MPMoviePlayerController

Question

iPhone App :How to play Youtube video in app using MPMoviePlayerController

for that i write the code:

 NSString *urlAddress = @"http://www.youtube.com/xyz";
 NSLog(@"URL ADDress : %@",urlAddress);

 //Create a URL object.
  NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress];

movie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
movie.scalingMode=MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
    movie.view.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 320.0, 460.0);
[self.view addSubview:movie.view];
[movie play];

if i pass the url of local directory it is playing video

 NSString* filePath = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Video.mp4"];
NSURL* url = [[[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:filePath] autorelease];

How can I play video directly from youtube url to MPMoviePlayerController?

Solution

There is a great thread that on IphoneDevSDk.

They work with a hidden UIWebView: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/61447-how-play-youtube-movie.html

Comments

[Narayanan Ramamoorthy]

@rckoenes why not ?? i have played youtube by downloading it and saved in local ...another mean of playing is embedding the youtube link and playing in safari

[steipete]

I tried this here: github.com/steipete/PSYouTubeExtractor, but it's a very flaky solution and doesn't work well with iOS5. Google clearly doesn't like it. If only the UIWebView plugin wouldn't be SO shitty.