QWebengineYtPlayer
Fully functional QWebengineView based YouTube player widget utilizing YouTube Iframe embed API to create an iframe whose source is hosted here.
Why we need to host the code ?
YouTube Iframe embed API do not allow playback of some content if the page is hosted locally.
Features
- Support playback of all quality
- Fullscreen support
- Playlist Playback
- User uploads playback
- Video playback
Requirements
You need Qt 5.6 or above with webengine and webenginewidgets modules to use this widget in your application.
How to use in your Qt Project
Go to your project's source directory, clone the repository to WebEnginePlayer directory. (You can remove unwanted files likes images etc once done)
git clone https://github.com/keshavbhatt/QWebengineYtPlayer.git WebEnginePlayer
Add these two modules (webengine and webenginewidgets ) to your .pro file. Add the .pri file in your project's .pro file like below.
include(WebEnginePlayer/src/WebEnginePlayer.pri)
In your code initialize the Widget like this:
WebEnginePlayer *webenginePlayerWidget = new WebEnginePlayer(this);
To play a YouTube video:
webenginePlayerWidget->play(videoId);
To play a YouTube playlist:
webenginePlayerWidget->playPlaylist(plsylistId);
To play a YouTube user's uploads:
webenginePlayerWidget->playAuthorUploads(authorId);
Screenshots
Screenshot showing the widget being use in one of my application Playlist-Dl (A full featured YouTube playlist search/download application written in Qt)