Embed YouTube Video On A Screen?

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MGE	(Posted 2008) [#1]

Is this even possible, if so... how? Thanks.

Beaker

(Posted 2008) [#2]

You would either have to embed html in a html gadget using MaxGUI (or similar), or download the video (FLV) and play it using embedded Flash somehow. Both are possible.

MGE	(Posted 2008) [#3]

Thanks Beaker. hmm... don't use MaxGui, I wonder if there is a 3rd party gadget for this?

AlexO

(Posted 2008) [#4]

gameswf may be useful.

Except it's C++....
It's 'pre-alpha' code...
...And it only works in OpenGL (win/mac/linux).

Not much, but could be worth trying to wrap it for max if it actually does basic flash video (which the update mentions).

MGE	(Posted 2008) [#5]

Thanks, I was thinking of embedding youtube vids in an upcoming project for tutorial purposes without having to include them in the dsitribution or hosting them on my site. hmm...

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#6]

' createhtmlview.bmx

Import MaxGui.Drivers

Strict 

Local window:TGadget
Local htmlview:TGadget

window=CreateWindow("My Window",30,20,600,440,,15|WINDOW_ACCEPTFILES)

htmlview=CreateHTMLView(0,0,ClientWidth(window),ClientHeight(window),window)
SetGadgetLayout htmlview,1,1,1,1 

HtmlViewGo htmlview,"www.youtube.com"

While WaitEvent()
	Print CurrentEvent.ToString()
	Select EventID()
		Case EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE
			End
	End Select
Wend

eek, no adblock! hmm, jscript crashed after i clicked on a movie

Derron

(Posted 2015) [#7]

@skid
Did you think about extracting the video url and creating a "local" website embedding that video?
Or just embed a specific "iframe" (like if you embed a video in your board/website).
This would get rid of the "surroundings" of a video in a default youtube video page.

Also you should check if the returned code is for html5 and not flash videos.

PS: your code draws this:

Error - File not found

Unable to find the file at www.youtube.com

Edit:

' createhtmlview.bmx

Import MaxGui.Drivers

Strict 

Local window:TGadget
Local htmlview:TGadget

window=CreateWindow("My Window",30,20,600,440,,15|WINDOW_ACCEPTFILES)

htmlview=CreateHTMLView(0,0,ClientWidth(window),ClientHeight(window),window)
SetGadgetLayout htmlview,1,1,1,1 

'HtmlViewGo htmlview,"http::www.youtube.de"

local videoID:string = "M7lc1UVf-VE"
Local file:TStream = WriteFile("temp.html")
file.WriteLine("<html><body>")
file.WriteLine("IFrame ...")
file.WriteLine("<iframe id=~qplayer~q type=~qtext/html~q width=~q640~q height=~q390~q src=~qhttp://www.youtube.com/embed/" + videoID + "?enablejsapi=1&origin=http://example.com&html5=1~q frameborder=~q0~q></iframe>")
file.WriteLine("... IFrame end")
file.WriteLine("</body></html>")
file.Close()

Local htmlFile:string = (AppDir + "/temp.html").Replace("//","/")
HtmlViewGo(htmlview, htmlFile)

While WaitEvent()
	Print CurrentEvent.ToString()
	Select EventID()
		Case EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE
			End
	End Select
Wend

... does NOT work for me but uses the iframe approach. When calling opening the html file in the browser it tries to load a flash video - even with html5 param... hmpf. But maybe it helps.

bye
Ron

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#8]

what platform are you on?

Derron

(Posted 2015) [#9]

Linux

I edited something into my previous post.

bye
Ron

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#10]

the following url should give you a nice full window youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/v/IEIWdEDFlQY

with win32maxguiex driver it throws a Windows exception EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VOLATION, which it may do with all flash content these days :(

Derron

(Posted 2015) [#11]

Not on my linux box (64bit):

for
HtmlViewGo htmlview,"https::www.youtube.com/v/IEIWdEDFlQY"

Same for "https://www..."

Of course it shows a big video when opening the url in the real chrome/ff.

@64bit
Means I do not have the webkit or mozilla webview but a more basic one (see the discussion about it in the "InDevIDE"-thread)

bye
Ron

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#12]

I doubt any of the drivers recognise the https form

Derron

(Posted 2015) [#13]

What should happen when I click on it?

GadgetAction: data=0, mods=0, x=0, y=0, extra="https://www.youtube.com/v/IEIWdEDFlQY"

But nothing more.

bye
Ron

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#14]

I mean in your linux browser (here=the link i posted above), not from blitzmax program.

Derron

(Posted 2015) [#15]

Same for "https://www..."

Of course it shows a big video when opening the url in the real chrome/ff.

bye
Ron

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#16]

[grabs macbook]

is there an html5 parameter for /v/ format ?

Brucey

(Posted 2015) [#17]

My (unreleased/wip) CEF module can do this. I've had it playing youtube videos on a Max2D screen... if you like that kind of thing.

Derron

(Posted 2015) [#18]

the html5 param got removed - but some users mention it to still work.

Seems the "browser" you are using should emit somehow that it understands html5 or set "html5 = true" for youtube (like if you do that manually when visiting youtube.com).

Edit: I tried it on my xubuntu 12.04 32bit - same output as on my local 64bit machine (and nothing happening when clicking on it).

Feel free to send me your linux binary to test it:
ron@...

bye
Ron

skidracer

(Posted 2015) [#19]

cocoaMaxgui

www.youtube.com yes
http://www.youtube.com yes
https://www.youtube.com no
/v/ format no

win32MaxguiEx

www.youtube.com unstable
http://www.youtube.com unstable
https://www.youtube.com no
/v/ format no

I think the unstable win32 stuff can be addressed with silencing the script error handler