Comments on: Youtube video in AS3 FLVPlayback

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:34:00 +0000

In lieu of the ability to edit the .htaccess file a much simpler solution is available to those who have written their own streaming/pseudo-streaming script.

The AS2.0 FLVPlayback object will accept the following url:
video.php?id=blah&format=.flv

Not sure if this is true of later versions, but at least the one I’m using appears to merely check for the url ending of “.flv”, which is satisfied by this trailing parameter.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:00 +0000

Anyone have a copy of this working? I have tried a bunch of different curl options and ways of getting the videos but now it seems youtube has added a layer to block outside requests. It adds some new variables to the FLV request and changes the IP for example 200.0.0.0 (blocked) but works fine when its 0.0.0.0 – note in the page sources twice.

Would love to get this back working its really a smooth way to watch youtube vids.

By: enricoB

enricoB — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:05:04 +0000

thanks a lot for the .htaccess solution!
i finished to implemented a youtube as3 videoplayer!

By: LastFM/Amazon/Youtube Mashup | VISUAL DIALECTS

LastFM/Amazon/Youtube Mashup | VISUAL DIALECTS — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:16:05 +0000

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By: klinQ

klinQ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:27 +0000

Another problem:

Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/klinick/public_html/YTRadio/php/getYoutubeFLV.php on line 39

Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: This function may only be used against URLs. in /home/klinick/public_html/YTRadio/php/getYoutubeFLV.php on line 39

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/klinick/public_html/YTRadio/php/getYoutubeFLV.php on line 41

How to make it work without get_headers()?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:57:09 +0000

@klinQ
Hi klinQ,

You can find the source code of the new and improved php on the homepage of my blog, in the new post about the youtube update.

Or, you can download the sources of this post again, the improved php file is included there.

Regards,

Dennis

By: klinQ

klinQ — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:51:51 +0000

Could u send me phpfile ?
I tried many different ways and still got no working script klinick@scholaris.pl big thx & sorry my eng.

By: ElFerne

ElFerne — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:33:14 +0000

@klinQ that is a problem with the quotation mark when I paste into the post you have to change the quotation mark from ´ to ' $swfVar = '\'SWF_ARGS\':';

By: klinQ

klinQ — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:27:19 +0000

How should this line look like now?

if (!preg_match(’#\’SWF_ARGS\’: (\{.*?\})#is’, $info, $matches))

didnt work

By: klinQ

klinQ — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:45:03 +0000

@Elferne
Hey i’ve got
Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in …

when I use
$swfVar = ‘\’SWF_ARGS\’:’;

How to fix it?