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What does "html5 video support" mean?

When playing, HTML5 video will not be visible for everyone (see requirements). Indeed some visitors will see the fallback Flash video instead.

What are the requirements to see embedded YouTube HTML5 video?

• It only works in browsers that support the h264 (Safari, Chrome, IE9) or WebM (currently Chrome, Opera and Firefox) video codecs
• Your visitor has to be enrolled in the YouTube html5 beta except if no Flash in present, in which case YouTube will attempt to fall-back to HTML5 as well

Does WP YouTube Lyte protect my visitor's privacy?

As opposed to some of the most important plugins there is no 3rd party tracking code in WP YouTube Lyte, but YouTube off course does see visitor requests coming in (see also the youtube-nocookie.com remark in Bugs/Issues below).

If you want to stop YouTube from setting cookies, add the "&showinfo=0" parameter to your httpv-url. This will prevent the call to the Youtube API, which is used to fetch the title of the video, and stop YouTube-cookies from being set when the LYTE-player is loaded. This however does not work for playlists (the API-call is needed to be able to present something meaningful). You should also take into account that any user actually playing the video, will always receive YouTube-cookies (as is the case with youtube-nocokie embeds as well).

Can I use WP YouTube Lyte for a custom field?

As tested and confirmed by rumultik.ru's Dimitri (thanks for that man!), this indeed does work. Just pass the httpv url of such a field to lyte_parse like this:

if(function_exists('lyte_parse')) { echo lyte_parse($video); }

and you're good to go!

Does WP YouTube Lyte work with Infinite Scroll?

Starting from version 1.1.0 it does; in Infinite Scroll's configuration you just have to add "ly.te()" in the "Javascript to be called after the next posts are fetched"-box.

Can I still integrate with YouTube's JS API?

This was added as a beta feature in version 1.1.0; add ?enablejsapi=1 to the httpv URL. WP YouTube Lyte will pick this up, and add ?enablejsapi=1&origin= to the URL of the iFrame with the iFrame id being set to iF_. As soon as your visitors plays the video, you should be able to hook up with the video.

How does WP YouTube Lyte support microdata?

• There is a specific microdata scheme for "videoObject" which WP YouTube Lyte can add to your page, which Google can use to display the video thumbnail next to the search-result
• This is optional and can be disabled in the options page
• The videoobject microdata is NOT added for audio-only embeds, playlists or widgets
• Google will not always display the thumbnail, this presumably depends of the relevance of the video to the rest of the page.

Responsive LYTE embeds

• The video width in posts and pages will adapt to the width of the container (the div) in which your blogposts/ pages are shown. This means that if your theme is responsive, WP YouTube Lyte will follow.
• Widgets are not responsive.
• if the content div width gets to around 200 pixels, the LYTE UI will become garbled (YouTube requires the minimum embed width to be 200px as well).

Can I use WP YouTube Lyte on normal YouTube links?

Sure, just add the following code-snippet in your theme's functions.php:

/** force wp youtube lyte on http://www.youtube.com url's as well */
add_filter('the_content', 'force_lyte_parse', 1);
function force_lyte_parse($content) {
     $content=str_replace('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=','httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=',$content);
     return $content;
}

Any bugs/ issues should I know about?

• Although the widget is available in (very) small sizes, these do not display that great and might, in the near future, be disabled by YouTube as their Terms of Service state that the smallest available embedded player is 200X200 pixels. Use the deprecated smaller sizes at your own risk.
• Having the same YouTube-video on one page can cause WP YouTube Lyte to malfunction (as the YouTube id is used as the div's id in the DOM, and DOM id's are supposed to be unique)
• As youtube-nocookie.com does not serve the HTML5-player, WP YouTube Lyte uses the youtube.com domain (which provides less privacy), but as soon as youtube-nocookie.com serves HTML5-video, this will become the default domain for WP YouTube Lyte again.
• When using the Firefox plugin Karma Blocker, the video isn't visible when clicking "play", with a warning message being shown instead. This is expected behavior and should be solved by tweaking Karma Blocker's configuration.
• The translations have not been updated entirely for version 1.2.0, this will be included in 1.2.1. Help with translations is always welcome!

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