Watch a video tutorial showing how you can stream youTube videos with video.Maru.

NOTE: youTube/Google have changed the process to get to the necessary query strings from the URL. The video tutorial above is inaccurate in the specific details of how to make this work but is still a good general overview of how it works. Just read the info below for the details of the changes.

I have made the necessary changes to video.Maru but streaming youTube videos only works with the latest build of video.Maru 3.0.

Since making the change youTube has changed again and the fix doesn’t seem to be working. If the video below plays when you click the play button then it’s working. Otherwise youTube is messing around with things again. Use this feature at your own risk.

Here’s the new method of getting the ID string:

1 - Go to youTube and pick out the video that you want to stream through video.Maru.

You will get a URL that looks something like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=IDstring.

2 - Edit the URL string by removing the word watch? And change the “=” sign to a “/”. Here is an example:

3 - Now browse to that URL and you will get a very long URL and the video you were watching will appear in a large video interface. You need to grab two pieces of that new URL as illustrated below:

4 - The string that you want to give to video.Maru in order to play a video is: youtube=SomeID&t=SomeLongString.

To play the video above would be: youtube=uCsdPszJLNQ&t=OEgsToPDskJK0D5QnoklN-REer7a0Cq2

You can use that in your XML or directly in your videoWindow or in a linkBtn.