How do you embed a YouTube video in a mobile version?

[petrakraft]

I want the video to be compatible on all mobile phones (Android, iPhone, Blackberry....).

[StalkerB]

Just use the iframe embed, no?

Or am I underthinking it? What devices doesn't the iframe embed work on?

[petrakraft]

On Android it is not working with iframe because it is not supporting flash as far as I know ...

[StalkerB]

I thought the purpose of the iframe version was to detect whether the device needed Flash or HTML 5 and serve up either?

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-videos.html

I see there that it's only aiming to be compatible with native players for mobile devices. I guess it's still not 100% if there's an ad to be served before the video (although that was a year ago).

The iframe embed would seem to be 'upgradeable' (in so much as it'll eventually include mobile support), but I don't think there'll be a way around it just now if it's not working. Certainly can't find anything else about it

[petrakraft]

Mmhh.... on your mentioned link they write "... will eventually allow embeds to work on mobile devices" .... in my case they don't allow apparently.

But thank you for your time anyway