New Features for the YouTube Embeddable Video
You don't have to be on the YouTube site to watch videos. The YouTube player can be added to virtually any website, giving website creators and web surfers infinite access to the YouTube library. With close to 44 percent of our users watching embedded videos, we're committed to constantly refining the player. Today, we are pleased to announce four new features:
- High-quality start images (thumbnails) – Before you press play on embedded YouTube videos, the thumbnails for the video will be presented in high-quality. We're pleased with the results – let us know if you agree.
- Search in embeddable player – At the close of an embedded video or if the user moves the mouse towards the top of the player, a search box will appear. Not only will you be able search from within the embedded player, you will be able to watch videos through the same window. That's right, you can search all of YouTube from the comfort of your favorite blog, news, or humor page.
- Integrated video annotations – Annotations enable video producers to incorporate text information into their videos, create choose your own adventure-style stories or add links to any YouTube video. People watching videos through the embedded player can now join the fun.
- Integrated closed captions – Back in August we started allowing video creators to add captions to their videos. Closed Captions are now available in embedded videos like this one:
Our open APIs and embeddable players allow more and more people to transform the way they distribute and enjoy videos while avoiding the traditional cost and hassle of hosting videos. We look forward to seeing the fun and creative ways you will use these new features.
Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here or posting in our Help Forums.
Have fun,
The YouTube Team
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120 comments:
Already been noticing them... when the 'High-Quality' thumbnail works, it looks quite nice.
Can you please have an option on embedded videos that lets you watch the video in high quality?
yay YouTUbe!
I don't see any high-quality stills yet. Is it not in effect yet?
I wanna favourite a video from the embeddeded player
This is exciting new for the embedded feature to show the caption, but I think it only works for single player, not for the playlist embedded player yet! Would you please make the fullscreen button and caption features showed up in embedded playlist too. That would be great.
Wow, the search thing is awesome! I really like it. One suggestion: Make it possible to be able to rate and leave a comment through an embedded player (if you are logged in). That would be so awesome!
yeah! Everything's awesome! :D
Is it possible to use annotations and play a video directly within the embed? This would help for choose-your-own-adventure style videos. Thanks.
"embeddable" ain't a word y'all...
embedded video player
or
video embeds
I don't see any high-quality stills yet. And i hope soon we have some feature to embedded YouTube videos on in high-quality too.
Anyway...continue with amazing job and congratulations to all youtube team!
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This is exciting new for the embedded feature to show the caption, but I think it only works for single player, not for the playlist embedded player yet! Would you please make the fullscreen button and caption features showed up in embedded playlist too. That would be great.
Great job on the new features, YouTube guys! And a great little video too. Thanks for your good work.
this is awesome!! keep the updates comming! =]
Please get back "Transffering Bytes" when it clicks to upload
get back option "transffering bytes" when it starts to upload, Please!!!!!!
Good stuff guys thank you for great product development.
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I love the high quality start images!
nice features!
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Hi, i've noticed that i cant resize the annotations now, i've tried in flash 9 and flash 10, nothing works
any idea?
Great stuff! When do you think you will allow for high quality start up on launch. The only way now to get people to see the stuff high quality is to place a link and change the end code so that it actually launches when they click on it.
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Please turn of the annotations for embedded players. I don't want to embed stuff that LATER has links to rape porn or similar material... OK? Thanks.
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it would be nice that you as youtube and as google develop an software to create Closed captions easily and that lets you upload them up directly to your videos, this way, exploding all the potential of this feature
[quote]Hi, i've noticed that i cant resize the annotations now, i've tried in flash 9 and flash 10, nothing works any idea?[quote]
fixed, thanks!
[quote]Hi, i've noticed that i cant resize the annotations now, i've tried in flash 9 and flash 10, nothing works any idea?[quote]
fixed, thanks!
The searchbox looks upgly.
The search knob in lightblue color isn't the greatest color for this.
Rather make it red like the progressbar or give an option to set an own color
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Now if only there was something to help those of us addicted to VIEWING Youtube videos...an interior search button for your favorites page! Like many, I have over SIX HUNDRED FAVORITE VIDEOS!!! I want to watch a specific one from 4 months ago, whomp whomp I have to go through 12-20 pages first. BOOOO! Eh? Can you help? EH???
There should be a closed captions editor just as there is one for video annotations. Some people would prefer that, or they may not know how to create subtitle files. I hope you understand what I mean. I know this post is about EMBEDDED videos, but it's relevant, as you talked about captions.
hi, does anyone know if there's a statistics page for embedded videos? i want to know how many people hit the play button on a specific video in my blog.
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Is there any way to disable "Search in embeddable player"? We use many of youtube videos on our webiste (Amnesty.org). Unfortunatelly the search box break look horrible on our pages.
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The search box looks absolutely horrible. It totally spoils the look of my website. Plus, there's no real need for it. If people want to search YouTube, they'll go to the site. Forcing a search box on them when they're interested in the embedded video and nothing else is daft. Fingers crossed that you rethink this.
Thank you for your services and continued development... BUT I hate the search bar in embedded videos. :)
Get rid of the search bar...it looks awful.
This sucks. Its bad enough you subject users to questionably tagged content after each video but putting that at the beginning is really crummy.
The least you can do is provide an option to turn it off.
If this stays on I will pull my videos off the site.
search bar hijack is making me want to take down all of my videos. whose genius idea was that?
If I embed a movie into my site, I want them to WATCH the video...not SEARCH for another one. If you insist on plastering an ugly search bar on the video, at least put it at the end...AFTER they have watched the video they wanted to watch in the first place. Good grief, you guys really blew it on that one.
If I embed a movie into my site, I want them to WATCH the video...not SEARCH for another one. If you insist on plastering an ugly search bar on the video, at least put it at the end...AFTER they have watched the video they wanted to watch in the first place. Good grief, you guys really blew it on that one.
I am using an other service to embed over 500 of my own videos on my website, the search is absolutely horrendous!
did i mention your new search on embedded videos is terrible and ugly and serves no purpose?
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I am using an other service to embed over 500 of my own videos on my website, the search is absolutely horrendous!
I am using an other service to embed over 500 of my own videos on my website, the search is absolutely horrendous!
Remove the search box in the player immediately!
Oh come on guys... This searchbar is ugly and kills my design!
Is there any possibility to get rid of this? If not, bye bye! There are enough other video service providers. I dont need this ugly stuff on my page.
cheers.
I hope you think this measure (introduce the search box) more troughly...
It's a bad idea really.
OK guys, here is the solution:
I solved that problem by adding "&rel=0" at the end of my video-link. It looks like this now: "http://www.youtube.com/v/AtUp0qa7apg&rel=0"
You can see the result at www.metabolic-typing.de (video at top right).
The rel-parameter disables the related content and the search box. I don't like both.
More parameters at: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html
Cheers,
Dino
adding rel=0 helps indeed but you will also loose other functionality.
Here is how to remove just the search feature:
http://seedylifestyle.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-remove-search-feature-from-your.html
Jeff
Add ";showsearch=0" to embed code to remove that frickingly ugly Search bar... That's a big FAIL for YouTube... :S
The search box is incredibly ugly and is totally unnecessary. Adding it as an embed option might be useful for some people but to have it as a 'on by default' option is not a good idea.
All the other updates are much appreciated and are looking awesome.
this makes embedded videos ugly, remove it... we don't need 10 search bars on one page.
what the f*ck were you guys thinking?
The search bar is ugly and an awful idea.
Eine deutsche Anleitung zum Entfernen der Searchbox gibt es hier:
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What's with the "search" at the top of embedded videos? This really looks bad. The whole point of embedding a video is that it goes onto a site that is NOT a YouTube site. I want embedded videos in my blog to look good as images, not just while they are playing. YouTube used to accomplish this, it stayed mostly out of the way (big play button aside) and looked more or less like an image on the page. Now it is the most invasive and ugly embedded player I stick on my page. It feels more like an ad for YouTube than an embedded video. Further, the search is not my site search. I think this will confuse users as it is (on my site at least) more prominent than my own search. And worst: this change is retroactive and now applies to all the embedded YouTube videos on my site. In my opinion, this really sucks. My site looks littered, and it is thanks to YouTube, a service I once trusted and enjoyed. Not so much anymore. I'll be using Vimeo and other providers as much as possible. YouTube: please remove the search bar! Or at least put it on a popup menu, like that upward triangle in the lower right.
Sorry! hier der korrekte Link für die deutsche Anleitung zum Entfernen der Searchbox:
http://www.metabolic-typing.de/youtube-searchbox-enfernen
Do you want us all to run to Vimeo?!?!
This is truly the most anoying 'improvement' if seen in any extension.
So now i have to add &showsearch=0 to all my placements.
Please change it back to what it was!
Goddamit -- get that f'ing search bar off the embeds!
Idiots!
Goddamit -- get that f'ing search bar off the embeds!
Idiots!
Oh wow, that search bar looks awful! I hate it and now I have to change ALL of my embedded videos. :(
please remove the search box. it defeats the purpose of embedded video. It doesn't help people play the videos. Please make this optional
thank you html code!
back to normal now.
To remove the search box add this code to your embedded file.
1. In your embed code, find the url for the flash player (it is in there twice if you are using the standard YouTube embed code)
2. Add the parameter showsearch=0 (by adding “&showsearch=0″ to the url)
3. There is no step three - the video shouldn’t be showing the search box any more.
The automatic inclusion of a search box is every embedded video is unwelcome.
Please make it the default NOT to show the search box (i.e. consistent with previous expected behaviour), but I guess make it an optional extra.
This should be trivial to do and would alleviate the primary issue now being faced by your existing user base.
For those that don't know, the search box can be supressed by adding "&showsearch=0" to the emdedded video src but it's very annoying that every existing use now requires this manual modification in order to work as expected.
Effectively this innovation "breaks" existing uses and hence should be reconsidered.
Thanks for your attention.
No Thanks... Make it optional...
Please make Search in embeddable player optional!
Please make Search in embeddable player optional!
Search in embeddable player is a bad idea!
Please take the search bar on embedded videos off!
Um, has anyone else noticed that the search box is now gone by default.
I'm glad about that, but continue to be puzzled by the lack of communication from YouTube. Is this a change of policy? An accident? The documentation at http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html#showsearch still says the default is to show the search box. In any case, I'm glad YouTube seems to be hearing its users.
I see the the Search Bar in embeded videos seems to have become interactive today. Thank you. This is a much cleaner way to implement this feature. I still would vote for making the Bar optional, but am much happier now that the ugliness is hidden until it is summoned.
I see the the Search Bar in embeded videos seems to have become interactive today. Thank you. This is a much cleaner way to implement this feature. I still would vote for making the Bar optional, but am much happier now that the ugliness is hidden until it is summoned.
please REMOVE THE SEARCH BAR!!!
REMOVE THE SEARCH BAR PLEASE ,
it is extremley aggravating ,
and also the related videos make it difficult to watch the video because sometimes it does not go away
you can manually remove the search bar by disabling the related videos. just add &rel=0 to the end of the embedded url.
you can manually remove the search bar by disabling the related videos. just add &rel=0 to the end of the embedded url.
search bar is really offensive.
keep this pace up and vimeo will hurt you guys badly before you know it.
The much hated search bar is back again. Remove it NOW! If you don't, people will take their videos to your competitors, and your hits and advertising revenues will suffer.
Youtube team, do you mind if uploaded a video that is completely blank for any time limit you guys choose. Why I ask this? I don't have Windows or a camcorder. I plan on downloading the video then uploading it to add annotations to speak with the viewers. Please upload that blank video for the ones, who don't have Windows or a camcorder and probably never will.
I´d also like an option to keep/remove the search bar. Thanks.
I can't believe you just dumped your "SearchBar" on my site. I'm showing a Hawaii Luau video on a respectible site and what pops up... girls shaking their tits. Thanks YouTube.. NOT!
Search bar shouldn't be enabled by default. Please.
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He not only has his video, he also has a side box which shows all of his other videos.
what is the code for embedding a high quality **playlist** player? I know how to do it for an individual video embedded, but the code doesn't work for the playlist player. HELP?
These are awesome new features. Thanks
Is there a way to attach a close caption file to an already existing youtube video through the embed code, not through the admin panel?
The codestrings to turn off the search box and the annotations (which spoil the look of the videos and will deter me from embedding) don't seem to work on LiveJournal, which uses non-standard coding (ie just the video URL and some LJ-template tags).
I have 41 videos uploaded and for some reason this irritating annotation box shows up how do i get rid of it? Is it a default on all uploads now?
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how do I get rid of the annotations feature on all my youtube videos?
Hey guys, how do I get it so that at the end of my video it doesnt show up with those other videos? I just want a replay button. Any help would be appreciated.
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hey do u guys know if u can add anything to the end of a youtube video to get closed captioning? like "&fmt=18" will get u the high quality version of the vid?
help appreciated!!
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people with all these support questions stop asking them just play around and see what will happen
what is with the light bulb over a video? I was
wondering if that is new ?
i hate that the annotations box is on the viewing screen . why ? its a crap idea
what does the embedded code look like and where do i find it?
soooo helpful!
I like the search in embedded player feature the best.
I wish we could embedd links in youtbe videos, that would be superb..
I do like the HQ thumbnails!
Don't see how the integrated video annotations work to improve, the existing annotations capabilities
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Nice ideas...epecially the integrated search feature!!!
Could you remove the bit where you accidently click the video once it's playing and it takes you to the YouTube video page...can't see the point in having that feature when there is that option in the right click menu.
And I like the option to copy the embed html code..very useful.
Just to add; for the possible replacement of the clicking on the video, it could cause the video to pause/play rather than taking the user to the video page on YouTube
is it possible to embed the HQ video automatically, w/o the user having to hit the HQ button?
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High quality start images are is the first impression that you have to entice someone to watch your video.
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Keep up the good work guys. There may be loads of nervy people out there that get on your case but, they wouldn't know what to do without YouTubeGuys.
the fact that you can embed one of your favorite videos into your site is great, but the the fact that annotations, makes it a win win for all
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When is the high quality stills going into effect? That would be superb. Thanks for all the great work so far.
remove the suggestions in the video search bar off.
Guess Im a bit late... but these features are awesome!
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