Comments on: ActionScript 3.0 - YouTube video

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:24:12 +0000

This is great. Thanks for your work!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:01:38 +0000

Thanks Peter, you’re right I tried a different video in your player and it worked fine. My problems happen when running the swf locally during development. All the debug messages relate to the sandbox but why its suddenly happening I don’t know. Some posts in the youtube-api-gdata group suggest some recent changes to the api so maybe related. Anyway if I access my app from the localhost webserver it is fine so at least can work around until I get to the bottom of it.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:18:32 +0000

Hi,

I am working on a new kind of VideoPlayer (like the IPod), actually its the Social IPod, it allows you synchronize youtube with your IPod (with powerfull filters) and you can write comments on your IPod and they are sent automatically on the sync, you can share video with a bluetooth connection with other SocialIPod, etc etc

For the moment I am looking for AIR/Flex dev to build the software (so in AIR), Is there any volunter???

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:32:01 +0000

Hi Phil, it still seems to be working for me — can’t guarantee they might have some videos up where this method of getting the FLV does not work.

Now of course there is no real reason to stick with my code since YouTube has released an official API you can use:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:23:49 +0000

I did some experimental project based on this post. I’ve been working at it on and off for a while now and today when I fired it up, it no longer works. I tried your example above and it also fails. So I’m wondering if youtube have changed things to prevent this working? I’m now going to have a go with the chromeless player but I really liked this method.

By: steveking

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By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:52:02 +0000

@Billy Pope — I think the problem you’re having has to do with the FLVPlayback component, for some reason they hardcoded it to expect files with a .flv extension.

What you can do rather than use the FLVPlayback component is create a new Video instance and use NetStream and NetConnection objects. There might be an update to the FLVPlayback component available on the Adobe site since they had to fix this behavior for it to work now they added H.264 support and video files other than .flv can be played back.

By: Billy Pope

Billy Pope — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:11:20 +0000

I tried creating a sample app like the one you have running, but using the FLVPlayback component. I couldn’t figure out what URL to pass into the FLVPlayback component. I tried using evt.video, but it said it through an error I think because it’s not a direct link to the actual flv. How did you get around this?

By: Marco Casario

Marco Casario — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:33:16 +0000

Hey Peter you’re firing my examples for the AIR book ;))) Aahahhaah
ciao mate

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:10:38 +0000

good point Phillip, it may be in breach of their terms of service so use at your own risk — not promoting anyone to steal bandwidth from YouTube/Google.

They do have an API to get hold of their SWF player that then loads in a particular video, unfortunately can’t use that to cache for offline use. The only way to get an offline copy of a video is using this type of approach.

Unless YouTube drastically changes its redirection mechanism this method should keep working.