What are alternatives now for showinfo since it's been deprecated? - youtube

I have a Youtube video embedded on our Learning Management System that needs to have sharing disabled. Now that showinfo no longer works, what other options do I have?

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How do I embed live streaming (video) with my ruby(2.2.1) on rails(4) application

I want to add a functionality which will enable live video streaming
I am developing this in ROR
Is there any gem for this ?
Is there any third party vendor which will be good to embed ?
Please help me with this if u have embedded live streaming video feature in your webapp.
This is by far the best tool I've experienced. We have a client who does large scale events, in both real time and playback. This is their preferred vendor. http://www.haivision.com/
They have good documentation and their support is pretty solid too.

Options for embedded video on website other than YouTube?

Been having trouble with YouTube lately with regards to autoplay, looping and playlists. Currently using the AS3 embedded player and it was working fine until recently when autoplay and playlist options became mutually exclusive. I am also finding the loop option doesn't work with autoplay.
So, looking at options other than YouTube as we will have access to the video anyway and can either upload or stream using whatever technology is appropriate. My application is for touchscreen interactive kiosks which will be largely unattended and I want to be able to run embedded video with all controls turned off to prevent anyone from jumping off to some other website at any point. This is crucial! I don't mind if a touch can pause the video like it does with YouTube but links must not be available to jump out.
My web app is written in Rails 3 with HTML, CSS3 and JQuery where required. It runs on IE8/9 on the kiosks and Safari mainly during development. I'm using Heroku.com for hosting.
Hopefully I've given enough background here to attract some good answers but please let me know if I've missed anything important.
Thanks for your time,
Craig.
This service is awesome in quality and price.
http://sublimevideo.net/
If you are using heroku for your hosting, you should take advantage of their add-on. The interface is super clean and you have full flexibility to mold playlists or behavior.
Panda Stream
http://addons.heroku.com/pandastream

YouTube embed code on iPad

I'm working on improving the experience of a site by adding in iPad support. This includes support for videos. Our client is pushing towards a YouTube model for storing and serving videos -- great for us! I originally planned to implement the use of YouTube's new HTML5-supporting <iframe> snippets. This offloads the device detection to YouTube and makes embedding a video a cinch as we don't need to worry about compatibility. It turns out the the CMS we're using, Sitecore CMS, strips out <iframe>'s from our WYSIWYG editor. After a lot of research it looks like its a bit hard to not make this happen.
Fast forward to now... I tested out the old style <embed> code and discovered even though iOS doesn't support Flash, these embeds seem to work fine on iPad. Some Stack Overflow research led me to this post which suggests its because of the YouTube plugin /System/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/YouTubePlugIn.webplugin on iPads that allows for the playback.
My question is, is there any documentation that this is the exact reason? I'd like to go by this as why we can use the regular <embed> code but I need to back it up with proof via a document for iOS. Is this YT plug-in on every iPad by default, or do users need to manually install it? This seems like a great solution considering our unfortunate incompatibility with an <iframe> but I need to support the use of the <embed>'s with hard facts. Thanks in advance.
The answer you are looking for is to be found in Apple's URL Scheme Reference. Basically it's a mechanism that comes into play on the iDevices to detect and handle specifically, certain types of URLs - for instance Google Maps, iTunes and also YouTube.
Here's a few reference links.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007899
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/YouTubeLinks/YouTubeLinks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007895-SW1
And just for good measure, you might also want to take a look at the Safari Developer Library for the best practice recommendations on HTML5 Video and Audio embedding :-)

Lecture Capture Implementation: Synced Video and Slides Side by Side

I would like to take a YouTube video of a lecture and sync it with another area displaying the (powerpoint/pdf) slides being discussed in the lecture.
For example, knoodle.com does this but for a price. I wonder if anyone has implemented something like that and what framework (Flash, HTML5, etc) they used.
Another good specific example can be found here. It shows exactly the kind of video-slide side-by-side visual I'm looking to create.
I'm the author of presentz.org.
Presentz is an opensource software that lets you mix youtube/vimeo/video files with slideshare/speakerdek/images.
It's also free to use.
Try authorpoint software. It does that.
onion.tv provides the functionality you are looking for and many others that can enrich video presentations and overall engagement with videos. It's hosted online - videos stays where they are e.g. at youtube and metadata stays at onion.tv

Embed video on a asp.net-mvc website

I will be embedding a video to my asp.net mvc website.
A video on the homepage which will help people to better understand the website.
I have never done this. Can anyone tell me whats the best way of doing it.
Flash or silverlight??
I've used JW FLV Media Player. I was pretty happy with it, and it's easy to use. Flash-based.
http://www.longtailvideo.com/
My suggestion would be to go with Flash and to achieve what you're looking for, utilize swfobject. It's really quite simple to use and has a bunch of options that will be useful when you get more used to using video.
I have had pretty good success using silverlight with the Silverlight 2 Video Player as an example. However, it depends on what your requirements are.
Pros to Silverlight:
Performs Video Streaming very well
Easier to develop/customize if you are a .NET developer
Works on a variety of browser and platforms
Cons to Silverlight:
Does not support every video media type (the example above only plays .WMV files, Silverlight in general supports .WMV and .MP4)
Is not installed on as many client machines (less penetration)
Is not as well known (users may be reluctant to install it compared to Flash)
Is not as popular so there are less solutions/resources out there
Here is another discussion on the topic.
I would go with flash for only one reason: the 99% (or whatever it is today) installed base.
Then go with swfobject or JW FLV Media Player as suggested in the other answers. There is also a jQuery plugin floating around somewhere that helps deal with flash video on a site.

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