Easily display YouTube videos, Shorts, and live streams on your digital signage screens. Paste any YouTube URL and customize playback options like duration, looping, mute, captions, and start time.
The YouTube plugin in Play Digital Signage makes it simple to add engaging video content from YouTube directly into your playlists and slides. It’s perfect for displaying promotional videos, educational content, music videos, YouTube Shorts, or even live streams without downloading files.
All generated content updates in real time, and the plugin works reliably across supported media players with an active internet connection.
This plugin is a quick and flexible way to keep your digital signage content fresh and dynamic using the world’s largest video platform.
If your player does not have an Internet connection when YouTube for Digital Signage starts, it will not be visible on the slide. If your connection drops while a video is playing, it will display the buffering icon. Being that YouTube content is streamed, we don’t recommend using this plugin if your connection is unstable. Instead, you can upload the video to our portal. Videos uploaded to our portal will be downloaded by the players and played locally, so the Internet connection is not relevant.
YouTube iFrame API does not expose functionality for our app to set the video quality programmatically. YouTube defaults to the 'auto' quality, and it will set the quality based on network conditions. Sometimes, however, even with good Internet conditions, YouTube may serve the video at a lower quality than possible. It is possible to set the quality manually by enabling the "Show video controls" option in the YouTube plugin settings in our editor, then, when the video starts playing on the device, click on the gear icon and set the quality as you would normally on YouTube.com. This approach, however, requires using a mouse or touchscreen, and it is not possible on other devices.
Alternatively, you can upload the video to our library, and the device will download the video and play it locally with the original quality.
Yes, the URL will have a parameter &list=<list id> present.
Yes, you can paste the live stream URL as well.
Yes, YouTube Shorts are also supported.
Certain channels can restrict the videos, so they can only be viewed on YouTube. We’ve observed this restriction with some music videos, and it seems to be related to how different channels author/license/copyright the content. Our Windows, Linux, and Mac players can work around the issue; however, if you’re using Android or Extension, our hands are tied. You can try finding another source for the video or uploading the video to our portal altogether.
--autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required
In April 2018, Chrome changed their auto-play policy, unfortunately, this directly affects our Chrome extension player (including ChromeOS devices). Our Android, FireOS, Windows, and macOS players are not affected, however. To fix the auto-play issue on the Chrome player, you need to change a setting in the Chrome browser.
ChromeOS device owners: If you already have set up your ChromeOS device in kiosk mode, you can exit the player by moving the mouse to top-right corner and then pressing Ctrl + Alt + S to exit kiosk mode and log in with your google account
Type in the following address in the address bar: chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy and set the value to “No user gesture is required“. Then our player has sufficient permissions to play YouTube videos.
After changing the setting, Chrome prompts you to restart it. Once restarted, you can launch the Play Digital Signage player extension again, and videos should start playing automatically!
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