Hi Everyone,
as some of you might have noticed, KeepVid went downhill. I don't know exactly when, however I found an alternative: http://www.tubegrip.com. It works pretty well...
Here is a sample use of this library:
PLAIN TEXT
Actionscript:

public function startTest():void

{

    _client = TubeGripClient.getInstance();

    // this takes a url from YouTube they call Watch Urls.. basically, the url [...]

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Hi Everyone..
This is the fourth (and most probably the last) installment of this series on playing FLV (and H.264 MP4) video in Flash from scratch.
Full source code for the library is here.
The related posts are:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

For many of you, this might be the only post you are interested in. It will [...]

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Hi Everyone,
The series on Playing FLV files in AS3 was probably the most popular post on this blog. So I thought I would take it one step further: show SubTitles from an .SRT file over the FLV while it is playing.
First, you need to read this post by Jankees van Woezik. He did a great [...]

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Hi Everyone,
here is a sample for these posts:

Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 (part 1, part 2, part 3)
Library to get direct access to YouTube & Vimeo FLV’s in AS3

Simply paste the URL of a "watch" page on Vimeo or YouTube (browse to the video you like, copy the URL from the browser's [...]

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Hi Everyone,
this is a ... hrmm ... not very legal thing to do. However I need this for a personal proof of concept so I thought I would make it available to the public. Basically I am using KeepVid's website to grab a URL to the FLV's from Vimeo and YouTube. This means you can [...]

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Hi Everyone,
it's been a while.. a long while. I have been selling my time to Adobe, doing Flex work with a great team in NYC; we are working on the MediaStore for Verizon Wireless since July 21st? I forget.. NYC is nice, but not for me. I'm a nature lover!
A few people posted comments on [...]

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Hi Everyone,
today I will continue on this topic:

Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 1

and the following installments are here:

Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 3
Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 4 - Sample Usage

In the first part I only discussed the essentials [...]

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Hi Everyone,
today I will explain how to play .FLV files that are hosted on a standard HTTP server, no fancy streaming. You can use pre-made components to do so, but sometimes, for whatever reason, you want to do it yourself. I wrote my first FLV playing algorithm in AS3 about 10 months ago, it has [...]

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