Need DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(.now() + 1) before playVideo works

[ristkof]

I embedded the view in a UIViewController that is presented full screen.

When I call load(withVideoId:"xxxxx") and immediately call playVideo(), this does not work upon first presentation. Successive presentations of the view controller do work though.

My workaround is to do DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1) { self.ytView.playVideo() }

This is hacky though, it looks like something needs loading for about 1 second on my network connection before the playVideo works. I tried looking at the states I receive in the delegates after calling load(withVideoId:), but... I get no state changes on first load.

Am I doing it wrong or is this a bug?

[brol1dev]

Hi @ristkof ,

We will try to reproduce this one and come up with a solution if we identify there is an issue. Thanks for filing the issue!

[jasonszheng]

Hi @ristkof issue is reproduced; however, taking advantage of

• (void)playerViewDidBecomeReady:(nonnull YTPlayerView *)playerView; method in the YTPlayerViewDelegate will resolve your issue.

You are right that the player needs to load before the view is able to receive api calls. Please call playVideo from within this delegate method.