JW-players and the youtube/google api

Actually, YouTube video support will be added in the 4.0 player. The only thing you'll have to do is add the flashvar "file=http://youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DDdR41fe9Zeg" and the video will be played. This is part of a new YouTube API I am testing now...

cool - cant wait!

Hi!

This sounds great!

I have one question: Will this allow me to embed a YouTube video into a webpage without YouTube knowing the URL of the website? Currently, when I embed the video, the flash applet will, when it is started, report the URL of my page to YouTube and YouTube will list it under " n Links from http://blablabla..."

That is something I would like to avoid because my blog is a private one and I don't want to URL to show up on YouTube.

Thanks a lot in advance and for your great work with the players!

Regards,
dingsi

It'll probably imply that YouTube won't know your URL indeed.

Will this affect the "Viewed X times" function? As in, if I played the video via the JWFLVPlayer would it still count the views on my YouTube page? That would be super sweet if it did!

Hi JeroenW,

i would like this feature very much and maybe you are interested in sponsoring. If yes, please contact me at jq et ringerge dot org

georg

Hi Jeroen,

Any chance of getting access to the Media Player 4.0 beta (or release candidate) version?

Thanks.

Hi Jeroen,

I'm also very interested in a beta 4.0 version

will there also be youtube playlist support?
That would be nice!

Martin

JeroenW said:

Actually, YouTube video support will be added in the 4.0 player. The only thing you'll have to do is add the flashvar "file=http://youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DDdR41fe9Zeg" and the video will be played. This is part of a new YouTube API I am testing now..

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Nice to hear that, I'm so happy with this one.

Thanks man, you are the best

Jeroen,

I'm also very interested in a beta 4.0 version!! PLEASE!!!!!

Tilderman

Would it be possible to make it so the 4.0 release also works with LiveVideo, in the same way it will work with YouTube?

How Can I get 4.0

Will post an early 4.0 version in the FLV Player page...

I want it too ! ;)

Thank you for the big work !

Can you specify "early" Jeroen?

No, please specify "will post" - when ? :)

That would be awesome Jeroen. As a fellow Eindhovenaar i sincerely appreciate your works.

Incorporated this in the 3.16 player as well. Demo:

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard&example=6

Will release 'officially' later this week.

Hai jeroen,
I have a js error with playing youtube with the latest 3.16 version

Firefox is everything fine

The error is

try { document.getElementById("mpl").SetReturnValue(__flash__toXML(playerStatusChange("BUFFERING","PLAYING")) ); } catch (e) { document.getElementById("mpl").SetReturnValue("<undefined/>"); }

JeroenW: YOU ARE THE KING OF PLAYERS!!!! i've tested and works!! when is the source coming out?

thans you very much!!

a little question: is your player showing the youtube logo for any reason? we can replace with another logo?

Good morning people,

I used to catch the original FLV location to play YouTube video in FLV player, but since YouTube has made a protection this doesn't work any more.

So I implemented the YouTube player on ShaddyShow (www.shaddyshow.com) so that all videos were accessible again.

I have tested this morning the 3.16 version and it looks very fine ;)

I am now going to implement and test it - especially on the chat room we want to put audio clips without playing the video of it. AND... I hope playlists will work again with the 3.16 and http://www.youtube too???? I will test, too.

Shaddy

OK first things first...

That a YouTube video is displayed is normal - but when I resize the player (example 180 x 150) then the YouTube player still has the same BIG size lol.... can this be fixed?

@ShaddyShow - you are probably not setting the width and height in the flashvars too - when i try the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard&example=6]wizard[/url] it works fine !
but a webaddress to a working testpage (no registering) would make it less guesswork what might be the problem....

I have a developer subdomain (protected by HTACCESS), so anyway you can't access it.

Besides: ShaddyShow of course is a licensed website for the FLV player :)

Back to the topic: no, when I change width and height in the example page, the YouTube symbol size does not change!!!

Tested with IE 6.

I tried playlists... doesnt work... I used like this:

<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
<trackList>
<track>
<title>Arash - Boro Boro</title>
<location>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I807k4jPjw8</location>
<image>http://img.youtube.com/vi/I807k4jPjw8/2.jpg</image>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>

The image does display (so the playlist file gets loaded correctly), but the video doesnt play.

Do I need to set a META tag - or playlists yet simply dont work with the YouTube parameter? Or will even never work?

My old playlists, where I linked directly to the YouTube FLV files, work in 3.16 the same well like in 3.14.

@anderson: I must be sleeping this morning... of course I talk about the "YouTube LOGO". The logo doesnt change size when the size of the player is changed.

If you resize the normal YouTube player, then the logo gets resized, too.

This does not work on the FLV player. The logo stays the same size.

Just been playing with the demo and seems its something inside the source. so should be able to remove

I dont think it's allowed to remove the YouTube logo.

i think it maybe allowed as see this site whos build there own version of it
http://www.xe-media.ch/extensions/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=joomla.video.h...

Either they had to have the logo but sneekly removed or you dont have to, either way says to me i should be able to remove but i take it youtube could get annoyed

The buffering bar seems not to work properly playing youtube videos in my search engine (www.redshines.com), it doesnt show the loaded data. Waiting for a more stable version...

Great job!!!

You don't see it buffering, but it does buffer

another bug, when the video is not available for any reason (f.e. the video owner has removed it from youtube) no message is shown and the player gets standby mode...

That's a bug I'll indeed have to fix! See if there's some sort of error status from YouTube.

On the buffering: there's no call for that in the Youube API, so I cannot set that.

On the buffering: there's no call for that in the Youube API, so I cannot set that.

as I have seen total bytes and transferred are set somehow: an example can be found here http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_example_1.html

I hope this may help :)

I was wondering how did http://www.xe-media.ch/extensions/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=joomla.video.h... get rid of the logo? my friend has a copy of one of there apps for youtube streeming but does not have FLA just swf so if someone wants to play im willing to give swf

just seen the fla out for the new version on site :)

Thought I chip in some encouragement.

Well done guys.

@Egoitz: correct, but that's not very interesting, since I allow users to skip to unloaded parts in YouTube movies. The buffering status should be independent from the percentage loaded. I'll put in a feature request @ Youtube.

@others: good luck with the YouTube API. I'm sure some bugs will occur; please post them here.

Hi Jeroen,

thanks for integrating YouTube streaming. Great work!!

Here some thoughts and observations after some experimenting.

I used your previous player version 3.15 for streaming YouTube content
by referencing the flv's at the youTube content servers directly.I mean something
like http://chi-v224.chi.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=xxxxxxx.flv. I get now
as well an 403 Forbidden error for some of those URL's.

I was wondering how you retrieve the location of the streaming urls from YouTube? Is that
an official API method that everybody can use? I am using the YouTube API
for other stuff but I haven't seen a method to get the location for streaming...

I am writing for a research project an application where I am creating playlists of
youtube videos that are related so that the playlist forms one ongoing movie.
The viewing experience is more fluent when the content URL's are known before and referenced
in a playlist. Using youtube url references like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKJpbxcL36k in the playlist
needs more time for transitions between playlist items.
So I would be interested if there is a official developer API that can be used to retrieve the location
that is not subject to frequent changes.

In my use case I often have to reload the playlist dynamically so I use the removeItem
and addItem methods. In 3.16 items are added to the thumbslist however
they are not loaded on clicking - the player seems not to react. If load
a new xml playlist file the thumbnails work again. My code was working before in 3.15?

And yes the YouTube logo looks absolutely massive when you use a small
player window ;-)

When I add this to the player code:
so.addVariable('javascriptid','mpl');
so.addVariable('enablejs','true');

Youtube videos don't work anymore.

Hello Jeroen! Thanks for the great work! It is now possible to use an YouTube RSS feed directly as a playlist?
Something like this: http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_favorites.rss

Hi Jeroen,

It appears the YouTube API in the official 3.16 only works with single files, and fails when used with a playlist (at least for me). I realize this is a new feature, and I'm guessing a late entry to the 3.16 feature list, but since you are working on this for 4.0, I'd like to pass along this information I have gathered from across the Internet...

It is possible to easily get a working URL for the flv file directly from YouTube:

1. Start with a standard URL like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzIRN-hGzY

2. Take video_id (v=) from above and add to the end of this type URL...
http://www.youtube.com/v/GYzIRN-hGzY

3. YouTube will do a redirect and replace the URL with something similar to...
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=GYzIRN-hGzY&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//s4.ytimg.com
/vi/GYzIRN-hGzY/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJE2p9uX53MWjWBJaAMDVe-

4. Now take the video_id and token (t=) to create a URL like this...
http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=GYzIRN-hGzY&t=OEgsToPDskJE2p9uX53MWjWBJaAMDVe-

This URL can be passed to JW mediaplayer and it works great, but only temporarily. Usually within a few hours it will stop working. The token changes and expires, and must be regenerated. If your API could get the token dynamically it would allow a static URL to be stored in the playlist with the token added dynamically at runtime. Note that this method delivers the video without any wrapper/logo.

Hope that helps.

When full screen is applied the YouTube logo does not overstretch but the added logo overstretches. Is there a way to avoid this?

Hi Jeroen,

This is my first post here, just wanted to thank you for your Youtube API work. Great job! I really feel grateful.
I suffered a lot for getting the frequently changing direct addresses of Youtube FLV files before, so I had been anticipating this kind of support since you mentioned about it in this thread. And the new ver. of JW player turned out to be so nice and kind!
Of course the logo does not matter at all, at least to me. I think it's a good way to show the minimal level of respect for the free server provider.

One thing to ask you. I've been testing this new player for a day and found higher quality service of Youtube tested now is not applied to the JW player. I mean, we can get a better quality by adding &fmt=6 (H.263 encoded with higher resolution) or &fmt=18 (H.264 encoded) factor to the original URL. But when the URL with the factor is applied to the JW player, it always returns original poor quality video regardless of the added factors.
I think this ver. is good enough as it is already, but it'd be so great if this can be solved.

Curious to know if you have any kind of plan about this.
Or maybe Youtube just dislikes providing higher qualities for the unwelcome users...
Thanks in advance for your answer.

Joe

Will there be support for Youtube playlists soon? I can only get it to work with a single youtube file.

XTRON's post (06/04/08) in http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=5484 doesn't seem to work....

@MarcJ

Just put the web address such as "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzIRN-hGzY" in your playlist xml file instead of http://blabla.flv.
It works rightly in my playlist.

Joe

@Joe,

That's not a YouTube playlist, THIS is a YouTube playlist: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=7362

Has anybody successfully tried to use addItem and removeItem in playlists with the YouTube feature?
My player freezes after adding/ removing items.

LIVE DEMO OF PLAYING AN XML PLAYLIST OF YOUTUBES AND LOCAL MP3s VIA JW MEDIA PLAYER 3.16 VERSION

http://www.bluues.com/316test/316test22.html

SEE MY APRIL 4 O8 POST
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=5484

STREAMING YOUTUBE PLAYLIST VS
STREAMING XML PLAYLIST OF YOUTUBE VIDEO VIA JW 3.16

STREAMING YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
http://www.bluues.com

STREAMING XML PLAYLIST OF YOUTUBE VIDEO VIA JW 3.16
http://www.bluues.com/316test/316test22.html

SEE MY APRIL 4 O8 POST
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=5484 (XTRON)

@XTRON:
Thanks I have read all those posts however they are only remotely related to the issue I described in my last post above.

XML Playlists with various YouTube items - no probs. In fact I use that currently as workaround. I was however wondering
if in 3.16 there might be a bug related to the Javascript API in relation with YouTube content specifically the addItem and removeItem methods - they are freezing my player. So I was asking if someone has that working?

Of course instead of adding and removing items to the playlists via Javascript one can make Ajax calls to reload the whole XML playlist for every change which is however not the most efficient thing to do ....

@Akazero: there's indeed an official YouTube API at present. It does not load videos, but require you to load a container from YouTube you can control.

@Chris: I'll check this out. There indeed seems to be a problem with YT and addItem() / removeItem()

@Montag: Direct playlists don't work yet. YouTube uses an SWF reference and not a page reference (http://youtube.com/v/4DC4Rb9quKk.swf). I can easily fix this though, and add it to an update.

@UnrealRG: It does work with playlists; there is an example playlist with youtube item in the wizard. Note that I use the official YouTube API, and that you do some custom replacements. They might work now, but can be changed in a few weeks. It's better to rely on the API.

@r4lph: unfortunately not. There's no way to control the size / position of the YouTube logo.

@Joe: thanks! Note that the H264 streams from YouTube are not available in their API, but will very probably get there soon.

@JeroenW: I found the problem with my playlist, and maybe this info will help someone else too. My playlist had the meta tags for type... <meta rel='type'>flv</meta> Once I removed those tags, the playlist worked fine. Before version 3.16 I needed the tags because the filenames did not end in ".flv", but obviously the meta tag is not needed anymore.

hi Jeroen,

Fantastic player! I am in the same boat as Montag, I am very keen on using the API feed for playlists directly from YouTube but play them locally in my player. As they are accessible now using the API.

This would provide a lot of flexibility with the great YouTube support you have added. Any ideas when you might be able to add this in an update?

Thx!

please add alternate video url if the youtube URL is unavailable...

youtube deletes videos from time to time, so if you add a alternate url, we can use it to stream a alternate file like http://mydomain.com/videonotfound.flv ot http://mydomain.com/videodeleted.flv

would appreciate this feature a LOT :-)

@baker

try using the "fallback" tag in your playlist

EXAMPLE: XML Playlist (using JW mediaplayer 3.16)

<title>Jim Brown - Three The Hard Way</title>
<location>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v9fdyE-DXE</location>
<meta rel="fallback">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicMaF1-IZw</meta rel="fallback">

@XTRON,

Doesn't seem to work. Have you tried using the fallback?

yep.. does not work... i tried both the playlist version and the direct swfobject

so.addVariable('fallback', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DaxG8jtPq0vE');

looks like when you use a direct youtube URL, the gdata api returns XML code $in a structure which the player tries to play... and identifies it as data (unfortunately not the flv url) that prevents the player from using the fallback variable...

@ AJJAX (your name interferes with legitimate searches for AJAX

No - I have not tried the fallback tag

Try replacing = with %3D (only in the flashvar tag < > replace ... =...with ... %3D

DON'T DO THIS:
<title>Jim Brown - Three The Hard Way</title>
<location>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v9fdyE-DXE</location>
<meta rel<strong>="fallback">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicMaF1-IZw</meta rel<strong>="fallback">

DO THIS:
<title>Jim Brown - Three The Hard Way</title>
<location>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v9fdyE-DXE</location>
<meta rel<strong>%3D"fallback">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicMaF1-IZw</meta rel<strong>%3D"fallback">

BELOW INFO IS FROM: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Supported_Flashvars

Using the & = ? symbols

Note that you must urlencode the three glyphs ? = & inside flashvars, because of the way these flashvars are presented to the player. The urlencoded values for these symbols are listed here:

1. ? → %3F
2. = → %3D
3. & → %26

@xtron - have you tested at all, what you post? - im really afraid you completely mixup flashvars and playlists!
please do NOT urlencode the playlist tags or attributes!

@XTRON,

I am a legitimate search for AJAX..

Please IMMEDIATELY STOP giving out bogus information.. You are confusing users with your incorrect, untested nonsense.

@AJAX

Sorry, I offended you. Didn't think that you'd take it so personally.

I have a hard time searching for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) because all I get are your posts.
Again, sorry, I offended you by suggesting that you consider changing your name to AJJAX.

I don't claim to be an expert. Most of us are not experts.
Only a tiny few of the posters are experts.
Many of the ideas/suggestions posted here do not work - but some do.
I just tried to help by researching the persons question.

Also sorry that none of my suggestions have been helpful.

@XTRON,

I'm not offended, it takes a lot more than that to offend me (almost impossible!).

For the AJAX searches, try xmlHTTP. I haven't used that name.

My main concern is that all users, including you, get the best, most correct information.

Any code that I post has been tested and is functional. I frequently include a demo link. In the rare instances where I don't have the time to setup a test page, I always post a disclaimer that the code is untested and may not work (although it is probably close to what WILL work). And, if its my code that isn't working, I will help the user get it working, including posting a full page of tested, functional code with a demo link. See this thread (and many others): http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=10176.

Enough said; let's get on with the coding.

So, is there some code or function that you need help with at this time? Post your problem(s)...

@ XTRON (your name interferes with legitimate searches for TRON's ex-wife)

Its a great player, thanks Jeroen,

When video owner in youtube change the video into private ( not public ) that only can be viewed by their friend only, the JW player wont play the video.
Is there anyway to make JW player plays all youtube video (public and private) ?

Please help..
Thanks

Hi,

You can use our php library to get the youtube flv source :
Just add this in your script :

http://www.jookydo.com/fc/get_flv.php?url_vid=youtube_url

like this :
http://www.jookydo.com/fc/get_flv.php?url_vid=http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Mqq0Z7eg0

This php script get you the youtube flv file at runtime.
With it , it’s easy to develop alternate youtube player.

If someone want to develop online youtube player with it, we will happy to publish it on our website.

www.Jookydo.com

well i guess nobody on this thread anymore?

YouTube API solves quite some issues originally discussed here ;)

I'll take a look at the private/public clips. For starters, a nice error message has to be shown.

JeroenW thanks so much for all great the work .. Love the JW player... ! Whats the latest news on the simplest way to play a Youtube generated playlist using the latest version?

*11.04.2008 JeroenW
*@Montag: Direct playlists don't work yet. YouTube uses an SWF reference and not a page reference *(http://youtube.com/v/4DC4Rb9quKk.swf). I can easily fix this though, and add it to an update.

is it as simple as adding to the youtube playlist link EX: vars file:=" http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7A0F02F923C2299 "

or should it still be recreated using an xml file?

thank you very much x 5,00000
-sergio

Today you don't need to recreate xml, because youtube API does.

So in JW player 4, to play a youtube playlist, the correct value for the var "file" is:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLAYLIST_ID

"playlist_id" is the long number you find at the end of your playlist url, in your example "A7A0F02F923C2299" .

Here more information
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtubeDataAPIFeedTypes

cool thanks airali ...+ jeroenW ++ thank you for this very helpful community .. this whole site is a prime example of why i believe in open source

-gracias,
sergio

Hey Jeroen,

The JW player works like a charm! Great job dude!
But here's an observation. You might be aware of this. Youtube videos with the "embedding disabled" option set apparently don't get played by JW.

Here's what gets displayed-
"YouTube error (video not found)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blahblah"

Can you suggest a workaround for this?

Thanks.

I don't know a workaround for this, at least not yet. Note that the 4.2 player will discard entries that have the embedding disabled, so you won't run in nonworking items there.

When trying the example with a youtube playlist (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard&example=13)
on my server , I get an Error#2036.

Example here:
http://www.cinemarxism.com/feed.htm

How can that be?

@HRS - you also need to upload the yt.swf (the youtube proxy) along with the player.swf - it is found in the .zip file too...

Ah, missed that tiny detail. Thanks!

Hi,

I need add my youtube playlist for the bottom of the player

http://dumidesign.com/mroom.php

now showing recent video's , please help me

i'm trying put like this but it's notworking

s1.addParam('flashvars','file=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/dlwijerathna/playlistss?v=2&playlist=bottom');

hey all, i just got the code right for adding a YouTube Playlist to a MySpace page. Figured I would share:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="500" width="450" align="middle" data="http://www.rootzunderground.com/mediaplayer/player.swf?file=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/24D1D6871DAB419E&playlist=bottom&playlistsize=150&backcolor=000000&frontcolor=FFFFFF&shuffle=false&autostart=false&repeat=list">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.rootzunderground.com/mediaplayer/player.swf?file=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/24D1D6871DAB419E&playlist=bottom&playlistsize=150&backcolor=000000&frontcolor=FFFFFF&shuffle=false&autostart=false&repeat=list" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
</object>

<br /><br />

HMMmmm I spoke too soon. While it loads the player properly in the page, and pulls up the images, I get the following error when trying to play a file:

CANNOT CONNECT TO YOUTUBE, ONLY ONE CONNECTION PER COMPUTER CAN BE MADE

Any suggestions?

(UPDATE)
I got it to work

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="540" width="500" data="http://www.rootzunderground.com/mediaplayer/player.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.rootzunderground.com/mediaplayer/player.swf" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="000000" />
<param name="flashvars" value="file=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/24D1D6871DAB419E&playlist=bottom&playlistsize=150&backcolor=000000&frontcolor=FFFFFF&shuffle=false&autostart=false&repeat=list" />
</object>

hey traigency, how to make the playlist show moer than 100 vids,, its only shows me 20 vids.

its possible?

Hello guys i found this site that made my youtube video very famous lol

my youtube video is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otp8kvv2o7U

155 Full Ratings - Views: 28,454

This is the site that made my youtube videos famous:
http://www.viewtube.ws/

I hope this helps as it did help me so much :)

Anas

Im trying to play youtube flv files in the ClipShare Player or JW Player but it doesnt load.

www.finesttech.com

video.finesttech.com

Please email me at contact@finesttech.com

Im willing to pay!

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/General-Chat/17772/HowTo-2009-Youtube-playlist

The you Tuve Api says it will require youtube.com/v/video_id while instructions on the forum say youtube.com/watch?v=video_id.

Anyone knows the difference?

This is also a remark regarding the question if you tube adds the views from you tube videos pled through jwplayer.
does anyone have an answer on that one already?

So I started testing youtube playlist. For the first hour when I finally got the player to load the playlist, it worked.

http://andpop.com/flash/

Now it loads the list and thumbnails but doesn't play any videos. In fact, I've visited 2 other sites that use YT videos and I have the same problem.

Even on the generator, the videos dont' play.

Im using Safari and others have had the same issue.

What is going on here?

Hi,

Are you on a Mac? I am on a PC using Safari, and it works fine.

Note - there is a known issue with the YouTube API / OS X.

Best,
-Ethan

How do i make it play youtube HD videos?

Im using the setup wizard on this website. I've pasted the link with the HD thing at the end of it but its still playing in normal mode.

@Sho - We are still using the YouTube AS2 API, which does not support YouTube HD. When we change to the AS3 version of the YouTube API, this will be supported.

When will that be, sorry for soooo many questions, your a star!

Not sure.

Ok, if the work is in progress could you tell me when the realse date may be? Or can you tell me if there just suggestions atm? What i mean is, if it is going to be realsed very soon then thats great news for me...

I am not sure what the ETA is yet, sorry.

Ok np, soon as it done i will be happy to buy yet^^. (I hope its work in progress =D)

Okay!

My player only plays youtube videos and when i place a link to a different site i get an error or a blank screen

Provide a link please.

still AS3 version of youtube api is not supported??

It will be in 5.6.

And here - http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/blog/17773/a-word-about-youtube-support-in-the-jw-player

I've done a TON of work on this people, and here is the magic recipie for WordPress Integration...

http://www.brainblaze.com/j/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:tech-note-youtube-video-...

See example here : www.accolo.com/accolotv

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Cool, very helpful, thanks!