Allow playing Youtube channel's live stream · sampotts/plyr#789

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説明

This is more of a feature request. It would be nice to allow Youtube plugin to support playing channel's live stream. Live stream is currently in the following URL

https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=channel-id

I think it currently uses Youtube IFrame API and passes video id to it, but that doesn't work with the live streams. It would be nice to check if the URL includes live stream and if it does, don't fetch video using the video id, just ignore it. In that case, Youtube will use the src attribute from the iframe. Of course there's a need for an option to change the url dynamically as well.

Issue does not already exist
Issue observed on https://plyr.io

Expected behaviour

Allow playing Youtube live stream

Actual behaviour

It doesn't exist?

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Players affected:

HTML5 Video
HTML5 Audio
YouTube
Vimeo

Steps to reproduce

Relevant links

Example in the docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Examples

コントリビューターガイド

技術スタック: javascripthtml
領域: frontend
Issue 種別: feature
難度: 3
推定時間: 1-3 hours
活動状況: stale
明確さ: mostly clear
前提条件: JavaScriptYouTube IFrame APIPlyr plugin structure
初心者向け度: 50
調査方針: First, examine the YouTube plugin source code in the Plyr repository (likely src/js/plugins/youtube.js) to understand how video IDs are currently extracted and passed to the IFrame API. Then, implement logic to detect if the URL contains 'live stream?channel=' and, if so, set the iframe's src attribute directly without using the video ID. Also consider adding an option to dynamically update the URL. Refer to the YouTube IFrame API documentation for live stream embedding.