YouTube announces Upload API, Chromeless Player with JavaScript API and H.264 videos

12 Mar 2008

YouTube has announced a lot of new features:-

• Updated API to allow CRUD - Create, read, update and delete - operations
• Upload API
• Chromeless Player
• Player's JavaScript API
• H.264 videos - Notice the high-quality playback link below videos on youtube

This is really amazing, we can build kick-ass applications that would use YouTube's platform for media upload, conversion (trans coding) and delivery, seamlessly.

I am yet to confirm, how easy it is to load and control YouTube's player in our Flash/Flex apps? Controlling loaded SWFs is hard, unless it allows cross-site scripting through Security.allowDomain ("loaderdomain.com"). I hope, some day Flash Player would have more Security APIs, which would let us expose a set of interfaces to loaders (SWF loads another swf from different domain).

In any case, we can overlay iframe/div to show the video. That's what I am doing for Yahoo! Live Mashup.

Update (March 12, 2008): YouTube's chromeless player can be loaded in Flash/Flex applications and can be controlled. That's what I heard Geoff Stearns, Flash Engineer in YouTube and SWFObject developer, saying in this video.

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