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I’ve recently had an article on the YouTube Player API for Actionscript 3 published on the Flashtuts+ network. However, some people are having issues getting to grips with loading another video in-situ, so here’s a slight change to the code:
Once you read the tutorial, you will finish with two important files:
Now it may come as no surprise that even the most well oiled machine has it’s flaws, that being said YouTube isn’t an exception to the rule. Unfortunately sometimes users and videos get lost amongst the mass of videos being uploaded to YouTube.
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I’m in the middle of creating a new YouTube gadget and part of the specification is that it allows the user to see the videos on a time-line. The idea behind it is that companies can then have a simple and sleek gadget that allows them to display their videos, whether they’re viral or community influenced (much like Sprite’s Green Eyed World), in a simple time-line sort of format.
So using the MVC code I created for my other gadgets I was able to easily adapt it, create a new 2D carousel and then was left with the task of creating the visual time-line control and also sorting the videos by their date. Now the YouTube GData API allows you to pass a parameter called “orderby” with the value “published” which returns the entries according to when they were uploaded, the latest first.
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Following my tutorial how to use PureMVC on Flashtuts+, I got a few comments about an error that Flash Debug Player throws when loading an image from Flickr:
SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: LoaderInfo.content: http://flashtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/ 026_PureMVC/App.swf cannot access http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2472/ 3549227972_7e6bd4d79a_t.jpg. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::LoaderInfo/get content()
at com.flashtuts.view.component::ImagesView/handleLoaderComplete()
Now there are two ways around this:
Recently while working at Google I’ve been asked to built some YouTube products, essentially brand channel gadgets built on the Google Gadgets API. YouTube has two main gadgets that they sell:
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