Can Youtube player play videos from my desktop or any other extrernal ?

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Hello Vaadin Experts,

I have a doubt regarding you tube player. Can a youtube player play video’s from other external resource other than you tube.Can it play videos from my system.

If not please suggest me what I have to use for my requirement.

Thanks and Regards,

Siva

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can any one reply please

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Guys please I am waiting for the reply

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Hi

No, I’d assume not. Looking at the plugin’s page, it seems that it uses the YouTube API. The YouTube API and YouTube player only play videos on YouTube. I suspect that the name of the API and the add-on reflects that.

There is no already-existing add-on for you to be able to play videos from other sources. For cross browser-compatability, I think you might want to investigate using the
SWF Object
 add-on, and - assuming that you can use GPL licensed code -
FlowPlayer
. If GPL is out, you might want to look at using
the JW Player
 which can be used on non-commercial sites for free, or another Flash player. It seems that you’ll have license a flash player for use on a commercial site.

If the videos are in mp4 format and you can exclude IE8 & IE9, you could probably code for HTML5 video. In fact, try
VideoJS
 which looks like it might cover both bases.

FWIW, I have not worked with any of these things; this research took just 10 mins using Google.

Cheers,

Charles.