YouTube Video Search
March 13, 2007 01:03 pm
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
May 1, 2007, 6:40 am (Comment)
Hi there. I’m working on a project with similar functionality, but I’m not able to figure out how to get the PHP proxy script you recommended to load Youtube’s videos into Flash. I’m using Abdul Qabiz’s AS2 example to get the t value. Any help to point me in the right direction is greatly appreciated. ..k..
May 1, 2007, 9:21 pm (Comment)
The proxy script is intended to work around their crossdomain issue and as long as you are able to get the t value, you should be able to play the video. Try running locally first since the crossdomain.xml doesn’t affect if you’re running the swf locally.
May 3, 2007, 5:53 am (Comment)
Thanks dude - I totally didn’t get it at first, but I finally figured out what I was trying to do. Thanks very much for replying
I’ll be sure to send you a link to my app when complete. Thanks again.
..k..