YouTube API player.... stop working

Report · Jun 05, 2013

We are about a month of releasing a new version of our software writing in AS3, but our current version is AS2 and we have thousands of customers using the AS2 youtube player. The past week the youtube AS2 player doesn't seem to work anymore. Does anyone know of this issue? Did they change the paths for the api?

I know AS2 is long gone (seems that way) it just took a while for us to re-program from AS2 to AS3.

I'm only seeing one-two other people asking about this problem. I just thought I would post on this forum instead or the fourms they posted on.

Like I said we are only maybe a month away from releasing our AS3 version, but if I can just fix the AS2 version really fast it would help allot with support issues.

Thanks

Tim

Report · Jul 04, 2013

You need to specify the AS2 now to the player

...http://www.youtube.com/v/videoCODE?version=2...

so that your flash knows to take the AS2 version of the YT player.

Also the API player still works just with one difference in addition. It currently forces all video links to use https

This cause your swf's that are are located on a http resource to load the https youtube player and therefore loosing the ability to communicate by the API specification when it is used embedded in a website.

Only solution at the moment is to store all your files also on a https resource on your webserver.