Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

Saw this on Ajaxian - apparently Google has just come out with Javascript API for YouTube that will allow you to develop “the flexibility to customize the YouTube player with their own controls, player ‘chrome’, and even behaviors like custom playlists and menus.”. The YouTube Chromeless Player Reference is certainly interested and it looks like Christian Heilmann has written a video captioning system that lets you annotate as you pause. My spidey sense tells me this has BIG potential and some awesome stuff should be appearing over the next few weeks.

JW FLV Media Player supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, but also MP3, H264, SWF, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP and HTTP (Lighttpd) streaming, RSS, XSPF and ASX playlists, a wide range of flashvars (variables), an extensive javascript API and accessibility features.

I stumbled on betriebsraum’s blog lately and I wanted to bookmark his/her flash video tips.

• Flash Video Tip 1: Calculating an optimal buffer size
• Flash Video Tip 2: Syncing a FLV between two SWFs
• Flash Video Tip 3: Stopping a FLV from downloading

Haven’t tried this yet, bookmarking to play later. WinFF does video conversion which i’m interested in for my iTouch iPod. Apparently WinFF is a graphical front end for the command line tool FFMpeg.

Introduction to Video Sitemaps and how to build them. Video Sitemaps are an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search.

DRM Demystified: Flash Video And DRM