youtube: use youtube player in website

Question

I am not sure , But is there any way to use YouTube video player for playing .flv file , which are stored in my own server.

any idea ?

Answer 1

I don't think so, you can only use it to play content hosted on their site, but there are plenty of other flash players around. Flowplayer is a common one, and there are loads more if you Google.

Answer 2

Not that I'm aware of, but there are other options available that are very very similar.

Check out the JW Player here

Answer 3

I don't think so.

If you don't mind targetting just cutting-edge browsers though, you could make use of the HTML5 <video> tags:

 <video src="path/to/your/video">Your browser doesn't support this.</video>

I know the beta versions of FF3.5 support this, but it is a new feature that's not widely supported yet.

Otherwise, use something like FlowPlayer as suggested in other responses.

Answer 4

Why not just upload the video to YouTube and embed the player?

Answer 5

No.

You would have to upload the files to Youtube to use their player (which you can embed)

How ever there are many Youtube-like players (which will play .flv files on your own server), for example:

• flvplayer
• FPlayer
• BitGravity
• JW FLV Player
• Flowplayer