{"id":545,"date":"2014-04-16T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:49:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T06:49:46","slug":"embedded-youtube-video-on-ipad-is-low-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/embedded-youtube-video-on-ipad-is-low-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedded YouTube Video on iPad is Low Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve just created your marketing video.&nbsp; Uploading to YouTube is the best solution for adding to your website.&nbsp; (You will embed your YouTube video.&nbsp; YouTube provides the tools for doing this.)<\/p>\n<p>YouTube displays on all platforms saving you the time and aggravation of converting your video to multiple formats, then coding your website to handle all the configurations.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a simple solution.&nbsp; Beyond that YouTube is owned by Google which strengthens your positioning for&#8230;search engines.&nbsp; Add to that you can configure your YouTube account for keywords and general SEO.&nbsp; All these advantages are significant.<\/p>\n<p>You test your video, on Macs, PCs, cells and then..the iPad.&nbsp; On every other device you get the typical YouTube box around your video, allowing the user to view from your website, or go to YouTube; change the quality settings up to the maximum resolution you chose when saving your video file.&nbsp; Everything works as expected and seamlessly. &nbsp;<strong>Every platform except the iPad.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; While a box appears around it with what seem to be links, (just as you see on your PC) these are disabled.&nbsp; You can make the video full screen to the disappointment of seeing it displayed as the lowest resolution.&nbsp; Given the expectation of iPad&#8217;s video display this is shocking when you first discover it.&nbsp; But there is no way around it.&nbsp; Even if you code the embedded link with &#8220;video quality&#8221; to display 720 it will not improve the quality on the iPad.&nbsp; Speculation is the Apple hates Google&#8230;Google hates Apple battle, but no way of confirming this.&nbsp; Apple never wavered on allowing Flash, it&#8217;s doubtful this scenario will change, either.<\/p>\n<p>The workaround?&nbsp; Provide a direct link to your YouTube video below your video specifically for iPad users.&nbsp; The issue is delivering your video with options of quality for the user.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve since migrated to Vimeo. The screen capture below explains YouTube needs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-546 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px currentColor; margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-designer-video.jpg\" alt=\"web disgner video\" width=\"551\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-designer-video.jpg 551w, https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-designer-video-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve just created your marketing video.&nbsp; Uploading to YouTube is the best solution for adding to your website.&nbsp; (You will embed your YouTube video.&nbsp; YouTube provides the tools for doing this.) 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