Travis Newbury said:The problem with youtube is the link back to their site. Better to
upload it to youtube, then download the resultant FLV file. Then put
it on your own server and use one of the many free Flash players you
can easily skin and put on your web page.
Let youtube convert the file for you. But serve the file yourself.
That is taking piggy-backing to an interesting and intelligent level.
I assume it is all possible and easy enough? Make some experiments -
drop everything in your life - and write down the whole thing step by
step, pitfalls etc and give a URL. In return, I can promise two good
jokes, one really filthy if you want.
What is the big problem about the link back to their site, not
reliable, ads?
Adrienne Boswell said:Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
The ads/related videos can be turned off, as I just found out. Hey, I'm
happy with it, I'm even happy with able to change the color of the little
player.
Agreed. Until we hear back from the good Trav, we will not quite know
whether the trouble of going through his admittedly interesting
procedure is always worth it or perhaps is worth it sometimes...
Agreed. Until we hear back from the good Trav, we will not quite know
whether the trouble of going through his admittedly interesting
procedure is always worth it or perhaps is worth it sometimes...
There is no added trouble to doing this. You upload the video to
Youtuube, when it is there you watch it and grab it with Download
helper. Then you FTP it to your server. Adding a custom player to
your page is exactly the same as adding youtube's player. You cut and
paste some object code into your page. There are several players out
there that allow you to completely skin them into your page design.
I am sure you would agree this is hardly effort at all. And now you
don't have any link to anything else, you completely control who see's
your video (until someone steals it). Oh then if you want, you delete
the video from youtube.
Please tell me the advantage of doing this over getting your own
conversion program.
Travis Newbury said:There is no added trouble to doing this. You upload the video to
Youtuube, when it is there you watch it and grab it with Download
helper. Then you FTP it to your server. Adding a custom player to
your page is exactly the same as adding youtube's player. You cut and
paste some object code into your page. There are several players out
there that allow you to completely skin them into your page design.
I am sure you would agree this is hardly effort at all. And now you
don't have any link to anything else, you completely control who see's
your video (until someone steals it). Oh then if you want, you delete
the video from youtube.
Any custom players you particularly like or have tried?
Absolutly no advantage over getting your own, but they were talking
about using youtube to host and I was simply showing them reason's
they might no want to.
My objection to the procedure is that it seems kind of an abuse of
youtube's shall-we-say user-friendliness. Anyway, whatever.
My objection to the procedure is that it seems kind of an abuse of
youtube's shall-we-say user-friendliness. Anyway, whatever.
Travis Newbury said:Interesting comment about download helper, I use it all the time and
never had a problem with it. Maybe I did not use it until they fixed
the bugs. Anyway, I still recommend it for stealing most (non
streaming) media.
I build my own players. Always have and with Flash it is as simple as
drawing a design, and dropping a FLV playback component on it. No
skill at all for making a skin able FLV player.
Now you will need some actionscript if you are going to design your
own buttons and use them, but even that actionscript is just adding an
eventListener for the mouse click: (the below code assumes you have a
FLVPLayback component named VideoPlayer, and three movieclips named
PauseButton, PlayButtom and StopButton
PauseButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,VideoButtonClick);
PlayButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,VideoButtonClick);
StopButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,VideoButtonClick);
function VideoButtonClick(evt:MouseEvent){
switch(evt.name){
case "PauseButton"
VideoPlayer.pause();
break;
case "PlayButton"
VideoPlayer.play();
break;
case "StopButton"
VideoPlayer.stop();
break;
}
}
That's it, you have a custom flash player. You can get fancy and add
a list control and have it read XML so you can keep a playlist well
the possibilities are virtually endless.
The least expensive encoders often give you little more than a flv
when you input a video. The more expensive ones often include easy to
use features to write the swf container file including a player along
with the flv. The flv and swf are written at the same time and you
can try out various controls, etc to see how they look using your
flv. Some allow you to write scripts for special needs, but for the
most part you do not have to unless you are not satisfied with any of
the many control, etc, that you can select from the program. Many
offer a free trial download that is water marked, distorts the sound,
or something of the sort so you do not get a free ride. I would
strongly suggest that one start with a free downoad version to make
sure it will work on your OS and browser as intended and to allow you
to judge quality, features, and convenience before you have to pay.
Perhaps the online knowledge base for the encoder I use will give you
an idea about how encoding is done. It is at
http://www.video-to-flash.com/knowledge_base/ .
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