I recently finished a project where we had to get some information about a YouTube video from a user submitted URL. Now there are different ways to do this, but the best way is to get the video’s id and pass this through GData to get all its information.
We must remember, though, that YouTube has a number of different URLs:
I can’t believe I forgot to mention this. Unless you haven’t had a look at my portfolio, you may not have noticed that about two weeks ago I launched the Tango’d Films YouTube Brand Channel: http://youtube.com/tango.
It’s a pretty fun channel, the concept is that you take a Lomax d’n'b track and do some bad-ass dancing and submit it into the contest running on the channel.
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Ah, what a crazy couple of weeks. If you haven’t read about this on my portfolio, here’s a snippet about this campaign:
“This was a very last minute project that I had the chance to work on. On my meeting to another project, I received a call from the creative agency asking for my help to get this YouTube and GCN centric campaign off the ground and turned around within 4 working days. It started off with a multi-stage YouTube brand channel that coincided with the launch of the teasers and adverts for the new 3D LED TV. I then also had to work on MPUs and a masthead for the YouTube homepage. Overall it was a pretty awesome project, one that had to be done quite fast (within 16 working days) and one that’s come off pretty well.”
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I recently worked on a nice and quick project: YouTube Cannes Lions 48 Hour Ad Contest.
This is a bright and funky channel that asks the creative types around the world to create a compelling ad (that fits a brief of course) within 48 hours to win a chance to go to Cannes Lions. It’s pretty awesome, and it’s worth checking out the talent from last year: http://youtube.com/canneslions
So, give a hand to the developers at YouTube for their hard work! They’ve taken the AS3 YouTube Player out of beta, albeit just chromeless, and all ready for production.
Let’s hope that the chromed version is coming very soon, but now let’s concentrate on getting used to this new player.
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So, here I am, playing with YouTube players, trying to get more than one to load in Actionscript 3. But it’s a pain, so I did a few tests and got it running fine in Actionscript 2.
My aim is to port this to Actionscript 3, but the biggest problem is the handling of the AVMs. I’ve got some tests to do to figure out the best way to separate the content, but hopefully I should have it done soon, so do watch this space. But, for all you lot out there, here’s some old school Actionscript 2 code:
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Yep, I’ve cracked it. Well, sort of.
You see, I’ve written a few posts about trying to get the YouTube player and interactivity to behave with Papervision3D. The issue was that Papervision3D (and other 3D engines) render the planes/materials/objects as bitmaps and you can’t render the YouTube player as a bitmap.
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Update: keep up to date with my latest code on my Github.
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:
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