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FLV video not playing in Cooliris embed wall

I have a PHP file that generates a Media RSS file for the embedded wall. It reads images and video from our Amazon S3 bucket and signs the URLs before creating the RSS feed. When the wall loads, images display perfectly. Where there should be video there is only an empty black square, when the video is clicked - still only an empty squa...

YouTube Data API limits?

Is there a limit to the number of requests I can make with the API? I see there are limits to uploading and the total number of videos (2000) you can have, but is there a limit to requests I can make to, for example, the search query methods? http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Searching_for_videos ...

YouTube API videoEntry count comments

I am trying to get the comment count for a video entry but this is giving me a count of 1 when there are no comments. Any ideas? <?php $commentFeed = $yt->getVideoCommentFeed($videoID); if ( count($commentFeed) > 0 ) { foreach ($commentFeed as $commentEntry) { // print commentEntry } }...

How to upload video on YouTube with Ruby

I am trying to upload a youtube video using the GData gem (I have seen the youtube_g gem but would like to make it work with pure GData if possible), but I keep getting this error: GData::Client::BadRequestError in 'MyProject::Google::YouTube should upload the actual video to youtube (once it does, mock this test out)' request error 400...

How can I get the date a video was uploaded through the Youtube API?

I'm confused as to where I can find the date a youtube video was uploaded. I've been using the following two functions: $videoEntry->getUpdated()->getText(); $videoEntry->getVideoRecorded() The first is when the video was last updated, and I'm not so sure that is the same as when it was uploaded. The "video recorded" is not always pre...

YouTube API: videoEntry context in playlist

Is it possible to find the context of a video in respect to any playlist that it is included in? I would like to be able to check if the videoEntry is included in a playlist and, if so, figure out the next video in the playlist. Flickr has a lot of great photo context methods, I hope YouTube does too, I just can't find anything on it. ...

How to script the download of "undownloadable" flash clip and then upload to youtube?

I am trying to find a way to upload the following flash replay to youtube easily http://battlestations.mobileweapon.net/history_view.php?hid=274641 I want to do these for a large number of replays from the site. Problem is, I can't download the swf or flv somehow even after trying various flash downloader tools, such as Flashgot firefo...

Best YouTube embedded player? (based on Chromeless API)

Hi. I'm building a website that will include embedded videos, and I've decided to use YouTube for video hosting as it's got the best functionality and the largest community. However, I would like to use a custom embedded player (using the Chromeless API) because the official YouTube player is too associated with amateur sites. Features ...

Youtube And the iphone sdk

does anyone have a way of extracting the direct movie url from the page returned by a standard youtube link? ...

Is it possible to get the size of a Flash video [YouTube] using JavaScript?

I would like to know the size of the movie I am watching on any video site [ if not possible on all video sites, then at least on YouTube ]. So is it possible, say I will specify the complete path like: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xyuX7u-Xts' , to calculate the size of the Flash video (.flv) using JavaScript? Note *By saying size I...

How to get the direct download link from the url of video sharing web sites?

How can i get the direct link of flv from the specified url in javascript? I got a PHP script to do the same. This is only for youtube What it does is: do some pattern matching and create a new url http://www.youtube.com/get%5Fvideo?video%5Fid=xyz&amp;t=abc now use this new url and again by some pattern matching find the direct...

Curl setting Content-Type incorrectly

I am running a curl operation on the command line and am having trouble forcing the header to set as XML. I use the -H option to force the Content-Type to be xml, however, once I run the command I can see that the header is sent as urlencoded which is tainting one of the data values that I'm sending. Can someone explain to me why the Con...

I found this "[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)" on the internet can someone explain it to me.

I found a method on the internet that can retrieve the Id of a youtube video from the url. this is it. var vid; var results; results = url.match("[\\? vid = ( results === null ) ? url : results[1]; The Id will be contained in "vid". What I don't understand and I find interesting and want to know is this. results = url.match("[\\?...

How do I get the title of a youtube video if I have the Video Id?

I'm playing now with the Youtube API and I began a small project (for fun). The problem Is that I cant find the way to get Title of a video from the Id. (example: ylLzyHk54Z0) I have looked in the DATA and PLAYER api documentation and I cannot find it. If someone knows how to do this or if someone could help me find the way to do this...

Play youtube videos with MPMoviePlayerController

Hello I'm trying to stream some youTube videos using the MPMoviePlayerController but I'm having some problems. The code i'm using is pretty simple and I can play .m4v videos by passing a URL to initWithContentURL. When I launch the movie player the player comes up but just goes away after about 20 seconds. When I try it in the simulat...

Adding a youtube overlay (for a specific channel) to a Google MAP using the Map API?

Is there a way to add a youtube overlay for a specific CHANNEL (not just an individual video) to a Google Map using the map API? I can add a flickr feed using the following code: var kml = new GGeoXml("http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=MY_SET_NUMBER&amp;nsid=SOME_OTHER_ID_INFO_HERE&amp;lang=en-us&amp;georss=true");...

Uploading video using the YouTube API via Flash AS3

Hi, I'm trying to work out how to upload videos to YouTube using the api from flash. There seems to be libraries available for doing this with php, ruby, java etc. but not AS3. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this? Thanks ...

Howto know the handset supports youtube vdo?

I have processed a UAProf that tell me a lot of information about the mobile phone. But which field tell about youtube vdo (3GP over RTSP) supporting? Any one know? ...

emulating iPhone video player behaviour

I need to debug a networking application which handles video downloaded by iPhone from Youtube. iPhone downloads chunks of video by requesting each time a different file range (by adding Content-Range in HTTP GET header) while PC applications usually request a whole file. Are there any PC application (preferably Linux, but Windows is al...

openURL and YouTube

Is there any way to open the YouTube app from my app, with a defined search query? If not, is there a way to just open YouTube, without playing any video? All I'm finding is ways to play videos. ...