I hope someone can give an advice about where to look; any good tutorial or help will be appreciated. The title is self explanatory but I'll go in a little bit more details. I'd like to make a video player that is customized and that allows me to embed youtube and other online video websites contents; what I want to do is to embed their videos to my website but have my own enhanced video interface. Do you guys think this is possible ?
Short answer - no, you can't do that. Youtube and Vimeo don't want you stealing their content, hiding their branding, and pretending you created the video.
Not really trying to steal their brand, the link will still take to youtube, it's only the interface that i want to change so i can add further features on the video player. It's basically embedding their video (which is legal and not called stealing their content) but have my own interface
Use JW Player, (The JW Player can embed any YouTube video, as long as the video itself is allowed to be embedded) http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/15994/playing-a-youtube-video/ you can use different skins: http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/skins
Thank you abyse, I was looking for a way to make my own video player skin and embed it rather than using one from online. Do you think developing a video player with customized interface that can embed online videos is hard?