Did Apple somehow manage deliberately to restrict Youtube search results of songs to live performances in its Youtube app? I rarely get the music videos as first search results. If Google can get around that in its iOS youtube app, then I'll be a happy man...
It's not apple. Lots of songs (especially VEVO stuff) are restricted on youtube to only play in a flash container. if you force youtube to only do HTML5 stuff, you get the same selection of stuff that's in the iPad YouTube app.
Not true. When was the last time anyone on this page actually used these services?
They solved this problem a while ago. Try it out. Grab your iOS device, search a VEVO video in MobileSafari. Assuming the owner didn't block all mobile playback, it'll play just fine, including a pre-roll ad that you can't skip.
The YouTube app for iOS devices only lists fully unprotected videos with no advertising or restrictions. However, MobileSafari has never had this restriction and has offered ad-supported YouTube videos via HTML5 for quite some time now.
The content owner gets to choose to block the video, or to share in the advertising. The Youtube app on iOS doesn't have advertising, so there is nothing to share in, so the videos end up blocked. The web site (and the future Google YouTube app) will surely have advertising, and so they'll have these vids.
Edit: This isn't just the actual VEVO music videos... it's also all the "songs with lyrics onscreen" videos that come up on a Youtube search for a song.
> The web site (and the future Google YouTube app) will surely have advertising
Already does. More evidence this was in the pipeline the entire time, Google has already devised a scheme to feed unskippable ads to devices that use their own player such as iOS.
You can experience it right now, just go to youtube.com in Mobile Safari and look for a music video. Most likely you'll get a pre-roll ad.
Not true. I just started "Katy Perry - Part of Me" (if anything will block you it'll be a high profile video like that) via Mobile Safari. Works fine, on both vevo.com and through youtube.com. You never leave MobileSafari, playback occurs entirely within the browser.
Apparently devs haven't been using their devices for much video playback. Most of the information on this page is a good six months out of date. VEVO and YouTube work just fine through the browser, and they have already devised a scheme to feed unskippable ads to iOS devices.
The industry is way ahead of the concerns on this page.
They show up in regular searches via MobileSafari too, GP's assertion is completely incorrect. Vevo videos, unless artificially restricted by their owners, play just fine in MobileSafari.
