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Hi Sebaro,

Since 2012.01.18 some YouTube videos always start playing automatically even if Autoplay is disabled, and I see no controls to stop or mute them, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSl2wxcnhpc

tested with Firefox 9.0.1, no Flash plugin but JavaScript and cookies enabled.

Clicking Play or Autoplay repeatedly or toggling HTML5 doesn't change anything, nor does entering or leaving the HTML5 trial on https://www.youtube.com/html5.

Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Regards,
Peter

EDIT: Sometimes the controls do appear when changing the format selector to WebM, but muting doesn't work anyway.

If you using quicktime as external player for your script, the player is cropped on all sides, so no controls and missing half of the content. That comes from the fact your video object has only a style attribute for width and height on the window, you have to set width and height as separate attributes.

generated src:
<object data="videosource" type="application/x-mplayer2" style="width: 640px; height: 366px;" width="640" height="366">

I guess you can even drop the style part, but the normal size attributes external players shouldn't really be resized to fit in the video container.

just tested it by modifying your script, didn't work at all

if (os == 'Windows') {
obj.type = 'application/x-mplayer2';
obj.width = player['vWidth'].replace("px","");
obj.height = player['vHeight'].replace("px","");
} else obj.type = 'video/' + mimetype;


will add the attributes, but has apparently no effect.

<param name="scale" value="tofit">
<param name="scale" value="exact">
<param name="stretchtofit" value="true">
welcome in the world of standardless bullshit. you have to add param tags to the object. 1st is for quicktime, 2nd for vlc, 3rd for wmp ... couldn't test it for wmp thou.

In addition to that you have to put the width and height attibutes to the object tag, otherwise it can produce horrible bugs.

you can add all tags at the same time, they don't conflict

Hi Sebaro,

For me today's version has solved the problem.

Regards,
Peter

oh yes, it was "exactfit", I'm bad at copy/paste ;)

param width/height has no effect, at least it doesn't exist on wmp objects.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd56399...

quicktime worked, after i hacked those params in. vlc is always a little bit jiffy and produces bugs when starting webm format. but mp4 worked after the video loaded fully. at least thats what I got from testing around. I wouldn't recommend vlc anyway, because it has only some controls in fullscreen.

another bug I've seen, if the video is available by youtube in html5, then the video is loaded and played anyway in the background, when you've joined the youtube html5 beta, after leaving the beta it worked normally.

Hi Sebaro,

In my post two days ago I forgot to mention that the problem is solved only when I don't join the HTML5 trial.
However, as most videos are now available as WebM and play natively in my Firefox without joining the trial, this is no longer a big problem for me.

Regards,
Peter

Works now fine with external plugin players, a friend uses wmp plugin and that works too, maybe I switch to that, because quicktime doesn't offer fullscreen.

About WebM, if a video is available in that, I usually use that in Firefox. would be great if you can implement a switch to prefer either mp4 or webm, working together with the hd/sd/ld switch.

Hello

i use the version of 19-02-2012 of viewtube, it has a problem with a machine equiped with Xubuntu 11.4, firefox 10.0.2, i can play the videos on youtube, i see the top controls, but the lower bar with play , pause stop button and evolution does appears at all.

I use a similar configuration with another computer but with ubuntu 10.4 and works fine.

It is a very nice tool , and save the old laptops to don't overheat, thank you for your work.

I checked all the plugins installed on both firefox, and installing the totem firefox plug-in after disabling vlc firefox plugin it resolved the problem, it is working fine now, thanks for your reply.