I am wondering if it is possible to embed a YouTube video on a https website. As far as I can tell YouTube videos can only be embedded with the http:// protocol. Is there a way to embed them on a page without Firefox throwing an error?
I really do not know if this works, but you should give it a try:
Instead of the YouTube player you use your own custom player (made by youself or take from the web, there are a lot out there. e.g.: JW Player) This player is served by your secure server.
Before you play a video you have to call the Youtube API the recieve the source of you video:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VideoID
Get you player streaming this video.
Within your player you should be able to allow recieving unsecure content from a secured website. You probably have to a little bit reading on the Flash Players security sandbox.
Unfortunately, Youtube doesn't have a valid SSL certificate installed on the main part of its site. You can try using a proxy such as https://browseunblocked.com/
Since Youtube doesn't have a valid SSL certificate, this won't be possible. Perhaps you could instead embed a HTTP iFrame containing a YouTube video inside your https webpage? Streaming a video over SSL would be slow, so unless the video itself needs to be encrypted, you shouldn't use it. Since you're talking about streaming YouTube videos, I doubt you care about encrypting the actual video stream, just the request to view it.
You could proxy the youtube stream through a secure server. What I mean is have a middle tier application that fetches the video feed from youtube and passes it through a secure connection back to your flash app.
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I have native app that gets html from the database, and renders it. I can embed a vimeo link with no problem. I need to be able to get access to a private vimeo account that whitelists domains. What domain should I whitelist since this is a native app?
When using the Player with a webview or in-app browser, there's no HTTP referer passed back to the Player iframe. Without an HTTP referer, the Player cannot determine if the domain where its embedded is allowed to serve and play the video.
The only workaround is to embed the video on a web page you control, and then open or embed that page in your webview. It's not an elegant solution, but it will allow usage of a domain-restricted Vimeo Player in a webview.
Alternatively, if you're writing a native app use the direct video file links with the app platform's native media player; this feature is only available to PRO and Business users: https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/224823567-Direct-links
I have a online courses with a lot of videos. These videos are in Vimeo for the app of this courses but I use flv loaded to the server in my flash version and the administrator wants to get off these flv.
Cause I don't know a bit of AS3, i can't use the vimeo api. So:
How can I display a webpage (where an html player will be running the video) in my swf? Like some kind of web object. The result, must be the video page inserted in the swf area
Please, be specific in your answer, my knowledge of coding is poor.
Thanks a lot! :)
The best way to approach this would be to setup an ExternalInterface in the Flash course that will communicate with the page. From there, Flash can call a method that is responsible for rendering an iframe embed of the Vimeo player. You'll probably have to pass both the video_id and the location where the video should be displayed (x/y in the event that it changes).
Once you have the javascript setup to render the iframe embed where you need it, you can interact with the player via the Javascript API (https://developer.vimeo.com/player/js-api). The player would essentially be rendered above the Flash (kind of like a lightbox), but will allow the control that you need.
You can also setup whatever playback controls that you need to pass from Flash to Javascript, and eventually to the iframe via the API.
Please let me know if you need any more clarification on how this can be setup.
I am making a website for school and am going to embed some youtube videos on my site. At my school youtube is blocked and I can get past it by using a vpn, however, the blocks are pretty good and block many proxies. Is there any way that I can in my HTML route the videos through a proxy or something so that my videos will always be accessable as long as the proxy isn't blocked. Thanks.
You can't do it using only HTML. You'll need a web server that downloads the videos and makes them available for the client to download. That's not cheap/convenient.
You can put them on Drive or Dropbox and reproduce them using a web player such as JW Player.
Is it possible to load only the audio from YouTube into my AS3 flash custom player through youtube AS3 api?
I want to load it into a sound object and then assign it to a sound channel.
I would like to know if there is an "official" way to do this, I'd like to avoid improvising (like loading the whole stream and then use only the audio).
Thank you.
I suggest you read the YouTube terms of service carefully:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms
In particular, you may not "promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API".
Doing so in any way (such as moving the video off stage) is likely to have your site blocked for playbacks by YouTube for breach of terms of service.
NB: YouTube manages to provide the service it does through advertising on top of video content. Separating the content like this prevents YouTube from making any money from the service it is providing.
If you use it for private usage, its okay I guess.
After some research work with different APIs and libraries and researching source code, I just tried it by myself and wolla.
Just saying, audio only links are in the page source of each video.
You just have to know what you are looking for ;)
Open a youtube video, view page source and search for "mime%3Daudio". There should be 5 matches, full url for example:
"https%3A%2F%2Fr2---sn-35cxanpbo5a-8pxl.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fsource%3Dyoutube%26signature%3D30EC556F55533FBFD9003767730D10556681F33A.B12E021CA54CCB9E225F58A4430E9BB528081FB5%26requiressl%3Dyes%26expire%3D1527306011%26clen%3D3064602%26initcwndbps%3D1152500%26ipbits%3D0%26mime%3Daudio%252Fmp4%26dur%3D192.911%26fvip%3D5%26lmt%3D1524946334873350%26key%3Dyt6%26sparams%3Dclen%252Cdur%252Cei%252Cgir%252Cid%252Cinitcwndbps%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Citag%252Ckeepalive%252Clmt%252Cmime%252Cmm%252Cmn%252Cms%252Cmv%252Cpl%252Crequiressl%252Csource%252Cexpire%26itag%3D140%26gir%3Dyes%26ip%3D81.217.53.239%26id%3Do-ALNxMeQYw4LLc1FAjxt4h795wKTdqJnzc_SBgzEJVBxR%26c%3DWEB%26keepalive%3Dyes%26mm%3D31%252C29%26mn%3Dsn-35cxanpbo5a-8pxl%252Csn-2gb7sn7r%26ei%3Du4IIW7DfC46rgAfrrpnICw%26ms%3Dau%252Crdu%26mt%3D1527284230%26pl%3D16%26mv%3Dm"
Just decode URL and you got what you want.
From what I understand the chromeless player..
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_player_reference.html
can be loaded as an external swf and can play youtube videos
using commands like:cueVideoById, or cueVideoByUrl
Both commands apply to youtube videos, but is there a way to have the player load a video let's say hosted on your server ?
No, that's not possible using the YouTube chromeless player. I'm sure that there are other Flash options out there if you search around a bit, though. You could also use the HTML5 tag, assuming your users are running a compatible browser.