Comments on: YouTube changes crossdomain.xml ?

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:36:17 +0000

Hi Guys
It’s been a while since I responded to any comment but I promise, I would respond each comment or post something that solves youtube related issues.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
-abdul

By: German

German — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:37:37 +0000

Hi Abdul
Recently iÂ´m wotking with a videos in youtube loading the stream in my web site. I work with a code that you posted and thats work very good but yesterday, the video dÂ´ont work anymore.
This is the code:
createEmptyMovieClip(”mc”,getNextHighestDepth());
var _mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
_mclListener = new Object();
_mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target:MovieClip) {
var _lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
_lv.decode(target._url.split(”?”)[1]);
_root.videoplayer_mc.contentPath = “http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?”+”video_id=”+_lv.video_id+”&t=”+_lv.t;
_mcl.unloadClip(target);
};
_mcl.addListener(_mclListener);
_mcl.loadClip(”http://es.youtube.com/v/D00DfLGCRiY”,mc);
videoplayer_mc is the instance for a MediaPlayback component.
IÂ´dont understand what happen.
Â¿Can you help me please?
Thank you so much

By: vercer2005

vercer2005 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:43:27 +0000

hey abdul firstly i wanna say that you are fantastic coder!!!
and now youtube changes crossdomain.xml and it free all (*)
http://gdata.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml
and will you fix your as2 example and source thnx

By: wisechap

wisechap — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:41:20 +0000

Hi
I have created a website which has lot no. of FLV files and which are played on a customized flv player.
Our problem is that these videos are to be purchased to view, but using realplayer 11 u can download them easily.
Can anyone help how to restrict users to download.
Thanks
Wisechap

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:24:51 +0000

HI
I am developing a similar kind of application wherein you can view youtube videos. I am fetching the path of the flv and feeding it to the contentpath of mediaplayer component in my flash file. It is working perfectly fine as a standalone player but when i try to host it on the web (localhost) it is not giving any output. Actually I am not able to get the xml itself.
Can anyone help me out with this?

By: prashant

prashant — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:26:31 +0000

hi
i created the get video url for the youtube as belov
http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=KoPa3-q0ZSM&t=OEgsToPDskIVOz6MrOz7a8dZ1gXJv3OY
and gave it to my agrya player as
.flv&playList={$baseurl}/playlist.php?viewkey={$smarty.request.viewkey}” allowfullscreen=”true” quality=”high” bgcolor=”#ffffff” width=”450″ height=”395″ name=”player” align=”middle” allowScriptAccess=”sameDomain” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” />
still its not playing the video can anybdy help me

By: jaykey

jaykey — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:29:51 +0000

Hi Abdul,
i tried the AS2 script from the top and it is like Jai sais. I can not get the video on iEx but on Firefox it is working fine.
In the iEx i got the following output:
vThe URL is: http://www.youtube.com/v/3IcwG0jUFxU
t param: undefined
video_id: undefined
thumbnail: undefined
…
did someone find out how to fix that? Is it posible to get the “t”-param with an php-script? Thanks for your posts, this is a big topic…
-jaykey

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:23:14 +0000

@Jai: You can not download the php-code, unless they are providing a way.
Which AS2 code you tried? I heard that it works in IE also, check out the comments in corresponding post.
-abdul

By: Jai

Jai — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:40:00 +0000

Hi Abdul,
I am not able to download this file: http://www.atomless.com/code/get_video_list_by_tag.php
can you please post me a copy of the file.
Also, I have tried your AS2.0 code for playing youtube video. It works on Firefox, but fail on IE. This shouldn’t be a cross-domain.xml issue. Otherwise, it would have failed on Firefox also. Do you have an idea why it fails on IE only?
Thanks,
Jai

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:11:15 +0000

@kurt: I think, I need to update the API to use proxy. Adobe Flash Player allows you to communicate with cross-domains so youtube should allow flash-apps to use the API. The reason, they removed it because there is security problem, they can create different domain (api.youtube.com) for APIs. The way Flickr, Yahoo etc have done.
-abdul

By: kurt

kurt — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:42:44 +0000

so AS Youtube API came to be garbage.
@Abdul Qabiz: maybe that’s not the only reason they do that. maybe Youtube want people use Youtube API only inside server-side. so they can reject access from your server whenever they want. but without shutdown crossdomain.xml, they cannot make your application unworkable.

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:46:09 +0000

@juanjo: Would like to see your XML structure. There are some characters in that URL that needs to be encoded in order to contain in XML or you need to put them inside CDATA.
What happens when you try to access the URL in from browser manually?
Sometimes, some video gets deleted so they are no more available on YouTube!, it seems something else is wrong…
-abdul

By: juanjo

juanjo — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:01:41 +0000

Hi to everyone,
I have a big problem, I’m looking for a thousand forums and I don’t find the solution.
the problem is, I need create a php script to get the direct URL to a .FLV at YOUTUBE.COM, like: ‘http://youtube-245.vo.llnwd.net/d1/00/20/QNMevE8_gl0.flv’ (this one I got manually).
I need these URLs to copy in my XML file, and my flvplayer.swf read the list and show it.
I tried other options, like include the downloadlink, like :’http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=TZNvqoHtrM4&l=37&t=OEgsToPDskJY5JljI_Ai0TO5b_W_k2zt&sk=bDHH5aH9HAkdHQMN3oKOZwC’, and the flvplayer don’t play the video.
sorry for my bad english.
thaks for your help

By: James

James — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:13:27 +0000

here’s a very simple php file that you can put on your server and call it from flash to make the youTube rest api call for you and it will pass back to flash the youTube xml -
http://www.atomless.com/code/get_video_list_by_tag.php
simply call this file by passing the tag and dev_id as a querystring like so:
“get_video_list.php?devid=00000&tag=kungfu”
it’s annoying not to be able to just do this from flash but this is a simple work around.

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:24:46 +0000

> FLV playback doesn’t rely on crossdomain.xml
> permissions at all.
@Julien – Right, but without right permission YouTube’s API or RSS feeds is not usable in Flash apps.
Thanks
-abdul