LoaderMax for YouTube videos

[vastav]

Is there any sample code that anyone can point to for using LoaderMax for loading and playing YouTube videos?

[GreenSock]

Actually, I don't think there'd be much benefit to using LoaderMax to load YouTube videos because they are not progressive downloads. I believe YouTube uses streaming so that you can't really get the whole file in your browser cache. You might just want to look at using their API directly:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/fla ... rence.html

http://www.zedia.net/2010/using-the-act ... utube-api/

[vastav]

Thanks for the links. That worked perfectly except for the "Error opening url..." part which appears to be a common problem while using flash IDE.

[seanhak]

You could load the actual youtube player API( chromeless or not ) with LoaderMax ( as swfLoader) - which is great for automatic loader parsing - then check if URL is youtube domain, parse loader to a youtube wrapper class which has all the API method calls ready - which are by default pretty similair to the one of the VideoLoaders.

 

I did something like this when testing YouTube API, I didnt like that I had to load the API player in url, and the actual youtube ID as the name. felt I was stinking up the XML with loads of urls to the same player. Another thing I remembered was the the inability to load custom arguments from my node.

Is there a way to get additional arguments which are not defined by the SWFLoader class, but added the same node?

 

For example:

[GreenSock]

Is there a way to get additional arguments which are not defined by the SWFLoader class, but added the same node?

 

For example:

Absolutely. That already works - in your example, you'd get that value like this:

mySWFLoader.vars.quality;