How to create movies to be played like youtube

September 7, 2008 11:26 AM

How to create your own flash video player with videos?

More specifically the videos I am making are longer than 10 minutes and I can't post them to youtube so now I am stuck trying to figure out how to make my own video player similar to youtube, college humor or break.

I am on a mac, and I am making the movies in iMovie.

Thanks for help

posted by thebwit to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Most sites I've seen trying to emulate YouTube, without programming a player themselves, use JW FLV Player.
posted by Memo at 11:35 AM on September 7, 2008

JW FLV Player.

Seconded. Youtube and pretty much everyone else use the JW player. It may look different because it's skinned, but everyone uses it.
posted by drjimmy11 at 11:51 AM on September 7, 2008

For the compression end of things, you can use FfmpegX (or the ffmpeg commandline utility, which you can download there or compile through macports, if you want) plus flvtool2 to encode/add metadata to your flv.
posted by Alterscape at 1:05 PM on September 7, 2008

Can you post them to Vimeo? If so, there are numerous how-to guides on saving iMovie videos for Vimeo.

Not sure why you can't use YouTube though. Is it because of the length of the movie? If so, Vimeo definitely lets you post videos longer than 10 minutes.
posted by Brittanie at 2:17 PM on September 7, 2008

Vimeo supports long length. Does your web provider have this service? I believe dreamhost has setup everything for in-line flash video without going to a third provider. Also have you considered dumping flash altogether and publishing to quicktime?
posted by damn dirty ape at 2:25 PM on September 7, 2008