For the next phase of The Interior, we have to embed some of the online audition videos from YouTube. Instead of using the YouTube player widget, we were exploring the possibility to play the videos using our own skinned FLV player . There are sites like Keepvid that lets you retrieve the actual path to the FLV, and after poking around a bit, we ended up using the YouTube API and a PHP script to retrieve the YouTube video and play it in our own FLV player. YouTube has also recently changed their crossdomain.xml (you can read more about it here) so we had to use this script to proxy the request through our web server.

Double click on on a thumbnail to play a video; Right click to search again

A while back when we were working on the Snap Image Search, we were playing with the Flickr API and develop this image search engine using Flashr.

Right click to search again; Double click to view the image in bigger size