[Xerte] New Youtube Component

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Thu Oct 30 14:03:33 GMT 2008


Hi,

There is an example of the new youtube component in action at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_510

I'd be really happy if you could give it a test and see if you can break
it. We had to change the way it was done because we previously used an
undocumented means of streaming youtube flvs straight into Xerte's movie
icon. We used the hack because, at the time, there was no good
alternative means of embedding youtube videos into flash movies. Youtube
have put a stop to that now - but have made a chromeless player and api
available to developers wanting to create their own custom players. This
example uses that player.

The source code for the component is in the Xerte build on the web site
now if you want to see how it's done, or adapt it for your own projects
- the supporting docs are here for flash developers: 

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_player_reference.html 

Let me know if you can break the example above. 

J




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