How Can I Make A Flash Player Like The One Youtube Has ?

hi,i was wondering if there are any tutorials on how to make flash players like youtube's, is it easy or hard do you need a lot of skill, i really want to make one, can someone help me please thank youscan

Edited May 8, 2007 by scan06disk (see edit history)

you really need to work and reinvent the thing? coincidentally, i've been thinking on doing the same thing just last week, but i found that others have attempted to make an embedded FLV player which anybody can use online. much easier, i suppose. i am toying at the moment with this script: https://www.jwplayer.com/

alas, until i get to have a faster-than-dialup-connection, i can't test it extensively as much as i'd like to. same reason i simply download youtube videos instead of streaming them. but that's another story. for purposes of your inquiry, i suppose the above stated script will not disappoint you. you can customize it according to your tastes by tweaking certain aspects of the script. it also includes the source FLA file if you need to dig in much deeper into it.

tell us of your exploits next time. would love to hear other insights on this topic too.

i came across the same site when i searched for the flash mp3 player yesterday. lol. this is good looking flash player. i need something similar for my site, and i think it would be great if someone here posted a full working script on how to make that. so if anyone has it please post it. thanks.

OMG !!!! Thank you soo much mate ! i will start work on it, so i can embed it into my website thanks !!

Youtube is highly advanced, I worked on creating a youtube clone script and it wasn't easy creating a site like youtube especially converting the videos to flv format on the server. Look into it, if you can program in php and you know someone who can program in flash then you're in business.FFmpeg codec.

I dont think youtube is my aim as yeah as u said it involve a lot of programming background, i just used Youtube as an example hehe *FAMOUS*

Youtube is highly advanced, I worked on creating a youtube clone script and it wasn't easy creating a site like youtube especially converting the videos to flv format on the server. Look into it, if you can program in php and you know someone who can program in flash then you're in business.
FFmpeg codec.

Since i'm in some sort of a posting crisis i'll post this bit OT question on this topic. I saw box.net provides <embended> scripts, which you can simply copy to your site and use it to show ppl your folders on which you uploaded stuffz. That's great option, with paid accounts you can even add users who can then upload to your folder from your site . I think that's great.

I didn't google this really, but embended script is Flash script of course, and that little "engine" is made in flash. Now i find that <embend> option quite neat for my project, but i wouldn't use flash really but simple javascript (ajax). Is it possible to embend ajax in to some other page, so that maybe you can communicate to "my" server side script from your site, and then use some kind of XHtml request to show it back on "your" site.

If somebody had experience with <embending> code to sites (and i'm hoping flash coders will read this topic), can you tell me is it possible to embend javascript (ajax) to other sites. I'm going to google for it of course, but if you have some smart opinions please post it here. Thanks

EDIT: I solved the problem->

OBJECT instead of embend

<object data="path/to/file.html" type="text/html">  alt : <p>nothing</p></object>

It took me whole hour to google for this
Edited May 9, 2007 by matak (see edit history)

This is a great discussion.. Thankyou. I have my question answered without having to ask it!

To add my two cents, you can google for open soruce flv players and use them to embed into your site, even though an alternative to use youtube usually saves a lot of bandwidth and resources, as converting to flv on your server is a headache, I've done that with ffmpeg and different different addons, sometimes it was without sound, sometimes it didn't do anything at all, but with time we fixed everything and just didn't allow some extensions which didn't always work as needed..

You can use such players like:

http://flv-player.net/
http://www.osflv.com/Demonstration.html
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

And etc.