865580 - Youtube controls can't be set after initialization

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: popcorn.js, defect)

Description

[arnaud]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.65 Safari/537.31

Steps to reproduce:

Initiate a Popcorn youtube player via smart player.
Call controls with true flag.


Actual results:

Player loads without controls


Expected results:

Player should show controls.

Comment 1

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

Yeah, this is annoying, but isn't really supported by YouTube.  They have no concept of the controls being turned on/off after init--we've talked to them about it in person before, and I don't think they care.  CC'ing Scott, as he was at that meeting.

The right thing here is to pass your options into smart so it does what you want on init.  I'm going to mark this WONTFIX, not because I don't *want* to, but because we can't really.

Comment 2

[arnaud]

Hi David,

Thanks for the prompt answer and the workaround. I'll try it!

Good to hear that you are in touch with the Youtube team.

Comment 3

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

In Popcorn-Maker we built our own controls. It works better than the default youtube controls.

I doubt their controls are even usable at this point.

They do not offer very good events to listen for when the user is interacting directly with their controls, so it is hard to keep them in sync with popcorn's data.

I would be willing to help get you setup with popcorn makers controls outside of popcorn maker. Here is something I started: https://github.com/mozilla/butter/pull/1600