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June 07, 2007
New YouTube FLV control
New YouTube FLV control: Philipp Lenssen has two samples here, as well as additional background. I'm not sure how far it's been rolled-out yet. Above the controller bar are thumbnail bookmarks to parts of the video, in a rotating/fisheye/dock kind of display, as well as banner text describing related videos. Philipp also discusses the tradeoffs of using a hosting service which can change the interface out from under you. (In these conversations, the phrase "embedded video" means "they provide HTML so you can invoke these YouTube-served videos in your own web pages"... doesn't directly relate to the OBJECT/EMBED controversy... hosting anyone else's SWF on your site brings up the usual scriptAccess concerns, which I'm not sure that "embedded video" proponents acknowledge.) If YouTube fully deploys this interface, then I'd imagine that other video clients would want similar functionality in their own displays....
Posted by JohnDowdell at June 7, 2007 01:32 PM
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The jumping ahead in the video part is interesting. They don`t seem to do real streaming. It seems to be something like this: http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/11/2/Streaming-flv-video-via-PHP-take-two
They are just cutting the flv at the appropriate timestamp and send the cutted flv back. The query string looks like this: http://ash-v17.ash.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=iwBz-hxjSLU&start=1355919
Does anyone have more insights on which technology they use?
Posted by: Benjamin at June 7, 2007 02:54 PM
Blip.tv lets you access the flv from their media rss feeds so you can host your videos on their servers and then create your own custom interface. Last time I looked YouTube didn't allow that.
[jd sez: What has happened to the compact Rich Site Summary format for recent changes to web resources...? (Those who re-acronymized it as "Really Simple Syndication" didn't do the world a favor... would've been better to have created a different XML-based format for non-HTML publishing.)]
Posted by: Mark DeVries at June 8, 2007 07:38 AM