Check if youtube thumbnail has finished loading

[adambg]

Hi forum,

I literally couldn't find this anywhere else online. I'm starting to doubt it's possible!

In my app, I have youtube videos embedded, so they appear as thumbnails and when clicked, they play full screen without closing the app. I have used the webViewDidFinishLoading method to check when its finished loading. The problem is, it thinks its finished loading just when the grey youtube box with a play button has appeared, not the actual thumbnail. Please can you tell me if there is any way to detect that is has properly loaded, with thumbnail?

Here is what I mean:

Grey:

Loaded with thumbnail:

Thanks in advance for all your help,

Adam

[bytor99999]

I think at that point it is beyond objective-c and just how YouTube finishes. So the view is finished when you see the gray, but YouTube is not finished bringing the thumbnail picture download and it is like a second callback that YouTube is doing.

Until they update their embedded code to support iPhone and mobile devices, you are a bit stuck. They are working on it, but have no idea when they will finish. You can check the YouTube API google group.

Mark