Yup, audio can be played - that's not a problem. But audio directly from videos (effectively leaving the video playing in the background) wont work. Basically they would need to split the tracks, and provide audio as a separate feed. Whilst this can be done, it would be a bit of a pain in the ass to implement, and always has the odd quirk every now and then, the most common issue is keeping the audio and video in sync when you switch to and from the video feed.
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Google Updates YouTube for iOS App, Adds iPad, AirPlay, iPhone 5 Support
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Yup, audio can be played - that's not a problem. But audio directly from videos (effectively leaving the video playing in the background) wont work. Basically they would need to split the tracks, and provide audio as a separate feed. Whilst this can be done, it would be a bit of a pain in the ass to implement, and always has the odd quirk every now and then, the most common issue is keeping the audio and video in sync when you switch to and from the video feed.
What? YouTube defaults to Flash on systems that still have it. If you don't have flashlike on almost all mobile devicesthe YouTube website works fine in HTML5.
Try this: http://www.youtube.com/html5
The HTML5 version of youtube is still in beta, but works fine.
Facebook and twitter are supported in the OS but why should they bundle software that not everyone wants when its simple to download it and configure the phone exactly how you want it. Google own YouTube so are always going to be in a better position to produce the best app for it on any device and can update it when ever they want because its their app and not supplied as part of the OS. I suppose you want your phone to arrive full of crap 3rd party apps and bloatware like you get with many Windows PCs.
But I mean it's been in beta for ages now, I think they should be speeding it up and pushing it as a finished, default player now, it would be great.
I would just like to thank you guys. I, like others, am disappointed with the YouTube app in its current form.
Reading this thread pointed me to Jasmine. What a great program it is. Much better IMHO. Thanks.
Reading this thread pointed me to Jasmine. What a great program it is. Much better IMHO. Thanks.
I woudnt say that YouTube app is a garbage, if you remember. When Ipone criticised because it doesnt have a flash support. Jobs endorsed youtube and sad, youtube has 40% of video on the web, Actually YouTube done lots to iOS, how it become a garbage now?
That the app is progressing so quickly in the short time Google has had to make it is astounding. Good work, and frankly, we're lucky they're even releasing it at this point. Comparing it to old established apps isn't really fair, it's not like Google had a head start here and they could've have sat on this until it was 100% finished, but we still wouldn't have native Youtube.
I personally find it adequate. I don't use Youtube however to listen to playlists or watch video on my TV. I just use it to quickly search and watch videos on transit, or the occasional goofing off with friends (doing data center maintenance the other day, I would play Shane McMahon's theme song everytime something went wrong, made the excruciating 17 hours of overtime much more funny).
I personally find it adequate. I don't use Youtube however to listen to playlists or watch video on my TV. I just use it to quickly search and watch videos on transit, or the occasional goofing off with friends (doing data center maintenance the other day, I would play Shane McMahon's theme song everytime something went wrong, made the excruciating 17 hours of overtime much more funny).
If Apple shipped this with iOS, you'd have to wait for Apple to push an entire iOS update.
I wish Apple would trim down the clutter even more. Get rid of weather, stocks, newsstand, voice memos and all the stock crud. Make them optional downloads.
Jasmine allows you to play in the background. Google should never have released an app that doesn't have this basic feature.
I'd rather they release the app now with missing functionality then have us wait a year for them to implement what everyone considers "basic". The basic feature is not background playing, it's just watching Youtube videos. The app does that really well.
They can keep adding stuff to it as it progresses, but at least we now have an option to use it while they improve it.
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inb4 he gets all upsad and butthurt because you told him to shut up.
The apps do work great. I actually love how the Youtube app is more like the Android app now since iOS6. I had my doubts when I first heard that it wasn't going to be a built in app, but I actually like it more now.
Yes it does - I'm not disputing that. That extra functionality isn't exactly a piece of cake to implement though, especially when you've got to make it work with millions of videos that dont actually have separate audio feeds for their videos.
What would you rather they do? Get the app released now, and miss this (very minor) piece of functionality, or make everyone wait another 8 months whilst they convert the entire youtube library to a duel stream system.
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No. They really arent. Stop trolling.