Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by MBCook on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:02PM (#29375880)

I subscribe to YouTube, so I already pay them.

If I watched YouTube on my phone or my iPad at all, I would definitely install this. Realistically I almost always use my TV to watch YouTube. So it doesn’t matter.

Purposefully breaking built in functionality (full screen, PIP, etc) to force people to use your app or to remove the functionality altogether is a dick move. Something that’s getting real common with Google.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by ollien on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:44PM (#29376136)

If you subscribe to Youtube, that money doesn't go to creators unless you watch them through a means Google tracks, e.g. the embeds, AFAIK

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by rezonant on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:21PM (#29375998)

I don't understand. I can load YouTube.com in my mobile browser, go full screen, and then enter my home screen and I get picture in picture just fine. It works whether I'm Premium or not. I don't need a mobile app for it. What has YouTube broken here?

I will say that I cannot use picture in picture while browsing another site in Chrome. That sucks, but I don't think that is YouTube's choice, that's just how the browser works (sadly)

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by andrewmackrodt on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:34PM (#29376083)

The YouTube app on Android only supports picture in picture and background play (screen off) with premium; I imagine the iOS app is similar.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by tomrod on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:43PM (#29376131)

Picture-in-picture works great on Android without premium.

No background play though.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by andrewmackrodt on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:22PM (#29376338)

Hmm, this doesn't work for me in the app in Android 10 or 11. Perhaps it is region specific? I'm in the UK.

Edit: it does work via browser if you navigate out of fullscreen. TIL :)

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by tomrod on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:27PM (#29376365)

Happy to help! May our paths cross again.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by salamandersauce on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:28AM (#29380924)

It's US only.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by salamandersauce on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:27AM (#29380922)

This only works in the US and on Android AFAIK. If I want PiP I gotta pay or fiddle with putting the YouTube app in a Window.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by LeoPanthera on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:29PM (#29376047)

AirPlay kinda-sorta works from the YouTube player but it is glitchy as hell. It works way better from normal HTML5 videos.

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by rezonant on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:33PM (#29376071)

Yeah that's on YouTube. I get why it's hard for them, as unlike in Casting, you can only deploy media types that can be natively played back in order to support Airplay, because you are passing a media reference, not a web page. But HLS is ubiquitous and Airplay supports it, so just serve the HLS and be done with it. I've been very happy with how easy it is to support this as someone who has built a number of web media apps.

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