[BUG] Does youtube_player_flutter increment YouTube video view count when played in-app?

[anotheranotherhoon]

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Package

youtube_player_flutter

What happened?

I am using youtube_player_flutter to play YouTube videos inside my Flutter app. I want to know if playing videos through this plugin counts as a view on YouTube.

We start the YoutubePlayerController with autoPlay set to false. Before running the controller, we call pause() to temporarily stop the video. After completing some preliminary actions, we then call .play().

We would like to confirm whether handling the YoutubePlayerController in this way will still count as a valid view on YouTube.

final YoutubePlayerController controller = YoutubePlayerController( initialVideoId: videoId ?? '', flags: const YoutubePlayerFlags( autoPlay: false,

What is the expected behaviour?

We would like to confirm whether handling the YoutubePlayerController in this way will still count as a valid view on YouTube.

How to reproduce?

1. Initialize YoutubePlayerController with autoPlay: false.
2. Before playing, call pause() on the controller.
3. Perform any preliminary actions.
4. Call .play() to start the video.
5. Observe whether the view counts as a YouTube view.

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[leonardmatasel]

You could give omni_video_player a try — supports YouTube, Vimeo, and more