In this final installment of my tutorial on YouTube hacking, I’m going to show how to build the FLV URL for YouTube videos and start streaming the FLV in your ActionScript application. As you will notice, this is very little work, because it is based on the streaming example in the AS3 language reference. I’m being lazy.
More …Jason Scott is a collector of bits. Mostly bits from the 80s. Back in the 80s and early 90s, bits didn’t travel that far or easily. There was Internet, but it was only accessible by a handful of American academics. Us, mortal beings had to be content with sneakernet and BBS’s. So collectors of those bits should be treated with the utmost respect. They are archaeologists.
More …Connecting different webservices together could leave open the door to attacks on your privacy by malicious individuals. This post goes into how Flash protects you from this, but still leaves open possibilities to tie together interesting mashups. I also explain how this fits in the large picture of our YouTube project and give an example.
More …Today I combine 2 new (sort of) hi-tech web services to reproduce the most outdated tech ever.
More …I’m sorry for the hyperbole in the title, but it really is something YouTube is very hush-hush about. In spite of that, direct access to the Flash Video file of YouTube movies gives you a very powerful tool. You have total control over: when, how and where you play the video.
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