JDK-8094487 : Youtube shows error while playing in Webkit
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: media
  • Affected Version: 8u20
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Not an Issue
  • Submitted: 2014-08-24
  • Updated: 2015-06-12
  • Resolved: 2014-11-14
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JDK 8
8u40Resolved
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JDK-8096977 - Youtube video in Webview return an error
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JDK-8089978 - OS restarts when playing videos in WebView Core i3 environment released in 2012
Description
I am trying to run a youtube video for eg. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYcHvjlnus
It sometimes works and sometimes it gives error.
The main thing is it has never work if I use "https" protocol.
I have got this error mostly : "An error occurred, Please try again later. Learn More" 

When i tried to get debug info from youtube then it gave like this.
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{"ns":"yt","el":"detailpage","cpn":"8dOhJTvVMRmA0uLS","docid":"rCYcHvjlnus","ver":2,"referrer":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYcHvjlnus","cmt":"0","plid":"AAUBZAJEyTZXU9u0","ei":"-Sr6U6TONYPBugTq4YDwAw","fmt":"18","fs":"0","rt":"42.937","c":"WEB","cver":"html5","adformat":null,"content_v":null,"euri":null,"subscribed":null,"lact":40224,"live":null,"cplatform":null,"cbrand":null,"cmodel":null,"cnetwork":null,"cbr":"Safari","cbrver":null,"cos":"Windows","cosver":"6.1","cl":"73848705","mos":0,"q":null,"osid":null,"state":null,"volume":100,"hl":"en_US","cr":"NP","len":"242","fexp":"902408,921094,924627,927622,931323,931983,934024,934030,941375,946013,948201,948600","vct":"0.000","vd":"NaN","vpl":"","vbu":"","vpa":true,"vsk":false,"vpr":1,"vrs":0,"vns":0,"vec":null,"debug_error":{"errorCode":"fmt.unplayable","messageKey":"YTP_ERROR_GENERIC","message":"An error occurred, please try again later."},"debug_videoId":"rCYcHvjlnus","debug_playbackQuality":"medium","debug_date":"Sun Aug 24 2014 23:57:56 GMT+0545 (Nepal Standard Time)"}

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Comments
There goes all my hopes...This only works in Mac at the moment
13-02-2015
You might want to add your comment and also Vote for RT-28420.
05-12-2014
Ok, then we can forget about playing Youtube or Vimeo videos in our apps using Javafx. A big big dissappointment. And as more services are starting to force https, this will get even more limited.
05-12-2014
Not an issue? Youtube.com page does not work in a webview. I believe that is a big issue. Edit: I can confirm this is NOT fixed in u40
05-12-2014
We don't support media over https. RT-28420 is filed to track the request to add this feature, but it is not currently planned.
05-12-2014
I'm using JDK 1.7.0_55 and seeing intermittent failure to play with YouTube embeds in WebView. Using Fiddler, I found that the HTTP embed URL will randomly redirect (via a HTTP 301 response) to the HTTPS equivalent and using a custom URLStreamHandler I was able to finally narrow it down specifically to the call to youtube.com/get_video_info that's made by the YouTube embed player - allowing all other connections (various tracking/ad connections, as well as the actual video stream) it makes to go over https still allows the video to play fine. Interestingly, the "stats for nerds" do show a protocol of "http" when the get_video_info call is switched over to http even though the actual video stream data is coming over https. I did try with the JDK 8u40 preview, but the behavior I saw was exactly the same so I don't think this is resolved with 8u40... Unfortunately, that's as far as I can debug this from my end - do you guys have any way of figuring out what in the https call to youtube.com/get_video_info is disagreeing with WebView? Thanks!
04-12-2014
HTTPS is not supported. When I try to open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYcHvjlnus it never gets to Media code, probably filtered earlier in the code.
14-11-2014
problem that can not be played with https protocol videos of youtube has happened in the case of Windows, but I am able to play in the environment 10.9.5 Mac OSX.
08-10-2014
I think that issue is somehow resolved with u40 update. I ran my app several times and there are only problems with outstanding resources locks. //my bad it is just that Youtube does not force https.
11-09-2014
Having same problem : error occured after several tries, i think the issue is related to https protocol !!! since when i use https://youtbe.. embed video never launch. While using only http, video often works correctly ! but when i have error occured ,i go into stats of nerds (right click on the video ) i found that protocol is https !! so may be youtube sometimes uses https protocol by default !!
02-09-2014
Important thing is that problem occurs only on Windows, on Mac there is everything ok and with JDK 1.8.0_20 videos always play without errors.
29-08-2014
This is likely a media error rather than webview. Also, it isn't a P2 bug.
25-08-2014