Layout: Choose from the large or smaller player
Content: Choose from My Videos (your downloaded videos), My Favorites (videos that you have added to your favorites) or Playlists (your playlists).
Generate Code and Save Player: This is obvious
That’s all you get with customizations. The players look good in their default size. As you can see above if you want to add the larger player to a blog as I did above it must be resized. This loses much of the quality in the player’s sidebar. The video titles in the sidebar are illegible and the snapshots are very small. The result being the larger player is not really at all suitable for a blog. The smaller player which is suitable doesn’t really give your viewers to see all of your videos without having to scroll through them with the left/right navigation that overlays the video. The included themes are “pretty” but they really offer no value in customization to fit “your” blog or website.
The players work well as far as playback and even offer a new feature that lets you skip around the video much like Google video does. The ability to select your own playlists is nice too. If you want to get into to video blogging you could add your own videos to specific playlists and create new players for each of them so you can show targeted videos to pertaining to your particular post/article. But that’s where the good stops and the bad begins.
Amongst other things, I’d like to see more customization features in sizing and color schemes. I’d also like to see the ability add videos individually without having to set up playlists. A third player (smaller video and vertical alignment) would be nice giving the option to add it to a blog sidebar. The option to list titles of videos instead of video snapshots for smaller applications. The ability to set a search term to display related content other than your own videos. Finally, a search option for viewers so they could change what is displayed just in case they want to stay on your site awhile watch a few extra youtube videos.
Overall I give the YouTube Player by YouTube a fair rating, but it’s not what I’m looking for.
Lika Starr
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