Inquiry About YouTube Playback Control in TMSFNCWX Components

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Hello TMSFNC Wonderful Team,

I’m currently working with the TTMSFNCWXVideoPlayer and TTMSFNCWXWebBrowser components. I would like to know whether it is possible to programmatically load and control the playback of a YouTube video (whether I’m the author or not) by specifying:

  • A custom start time
  • A custom end time

In other words, is there a way to download or stream the video with control over which portion of the video is played?

Any guidance or suggestions on how to implement such a feature using your components would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Bishara Wakim

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Hi,

The TTMSFNCWXVideoPlayer does not support Youtube playback. It is based on the browser Video API which only enables you to load certain formats like mp4, ...

Best regards,

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Thank you for your reply regarding TTMSFNCWXVideoPlayer and YouTube playback.
However, in my original question, I also mentioned TTMSFNCWXWebBrowser, as I suspected TTMSFNCWXVideoPlayer might not support YouTube directly.

My main request was about whether it’s possible, using either component, to programmatically play only a specific portion of a YouTube video (custom start and end times).
I understand now that TTMSFNCWXVideoPlayer is not an option for YouTube, but I was hoping your answer could also address whether TTMSFNCWXWebBrowser could be used for this — for example, via the YouTube IFrame Player API or embed parameters (?start=xx&end=yy).

I would appreciate clarification on this point, so I don’t need to wait multiple days for separate replies when the full picture could be given at once.

Thank you for your understanding and support,
Best regards,
Bishara Wakim

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Hello,

To avoid confusion, there is no TTMSFNCWXWebBrowser but TTMSFNCWebBrowser.
Normally, you can do everything with it that you could with a standard (embedded) web browser, so if you can do it in the browser, it should be fine in TTMSFNCWebBrowser too. It offers loading HTML directly: TTMSFNCWebBrowser - TMS FNC Core

The rest really depends on the YouTube API which isn't within our scope. However, a quick search should reveal what HTML element(s) you need and how to add it to your page. We found this for example for embedded YouTube videos (iframe + added styling for full page view):

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  //Play 10 second clip
  LoadVideo('07hTCBH8goQ', 1244, 1254);
end;

procedure TForm1.LoadVideo(VideoID: string; StartTime, EndTime: Integer);
var
  frame: string;
begin
  frame := '<iframe style="position:fixed;top:0px;bottom:0px;right:0px;width:100%;' +
   'border:none;margin:0;padding:0;overflow:hidden;z-index:999999;height:100%" ' +
   'type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/' + VideoID +
   '?start=' + StartTime.ToString + '&end=' + EndTime.ToString + '"></iframe>';

  TMSFNCWebBrowser1.LoadHTML(frame);
end;

There is also an autoplay parameter but it does not work without initial user interaction so you'd need to use a mute as well to make it play automatically (without sound).

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I was very helpful.
Thank you very much

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