Comments on: YTranscript: Using the brand new YouTube chromeless, scriptable player

By: harald22

harald22 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:51:11 +0000

hi, can i use it for videos hostet by googlevideo?

By: NielsMayer

NielsMayer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:17:47 +0000

What do y’all think of the “JW FLV Player” … I use it here to
similar effect in a blog post (by embedding appropriate javascript ahead of wysywyg-output html) — http://nielsmayer.com/roller/NielsMayer/entry/testing_embedding_jw_flv_player
– the one difference I note is that the JW FLV player doesn’t seem
to use times below the “second” increment in it’s javascript API (other than for smil/timed-text captions)) . I guess this makes the cueueing-to-nearest keyframe class of bug more of a feature…

By: Adnan Siddiqi

Adnan Siddiqi — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:45:49 +0000

Dion, sorry if this is offtopic but currently I am unable to fetch specific VIdeo Feed for a given VideoID. I failed to find any feed which return a single “entry” details.

By: Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:05:44 +0000

@robsworld YouTube had that feature for a while. It is a clever way of lazy loading. The YUI has an own control for that to allow you to only load images when they are visible. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/imageloader/

By: Robsworld

Robsworld — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:55:03 +0000

Great stuff,

I do have a slightly different question, I noticed with the ajaxian site that videos from youtube that are embedded into the site load after scrolling to that position in the document.

I am wondering how this is achieved? Is it some sort of javascript that detects if the video is in the viewport? Or is it something else?

Regards Robsworld

By: forsete

forsete — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:57:19 +0000

@kim3er, works great in firefox
but yes i too do have problems with it in IE7
shame, this would render this example useless by default.

but still a good start, maybe there is a fix for it. *shrug*

By: kim3er

kim3er — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:42:54 +0000

Is anyone else having problems with Dion’s example and IE7?

By: mlemos

mlemos — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:47 +0000

It does not seem to be very useful because clicking on the video section links does not seem to be working to make the video jump forward.

IMHO YouTube video player is very week because it does not support setting initialTime parameter like Google Video Player. That is used by Google to rewrite the HTML tags of the video player when the user clicks on the links to seek the video to specific positions in seconds.

Once I asked YouTube if they were willing to support initialTime parameter, and they said they were not interested, which is a shame.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:58:58 +0000

Meh, you still can’t jump forward to a position not yet loaded. And the keyframe thing…

Youtube seriously needs to catch up with other flash players on this.

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:15:25 +0000

Nice to see another Javascript + Flash approach, should encourage people to get creative.