Question

I am using youtube’s AS3 flash player on my site. Can I make it so that when the video finishes it, it automatically forwards to a specific page? How would I do this?

Answer 1

Even when using the AS3 player, you can still register javascript handlers; when you load the player just make sure you append

enablejsapi=1

as a parameter to the URL. Once you’ve got the javascript handlers registered for the AS3 player, you can then add a javascript listener to the player state change (specifically the ENDED state):

function onytplayerStateChange(newState) {
   if (newState===YT.PlayerState.ENDED) {
      // do redirect here
   }
}

EDIT:

Once you have the javascript listener ready, you can then set up an actionscript listener which will call this javascript function on any state change. Something like this, perhaps (untested):

// 'loader' below is the youtube actionscript loader object

function onLoaderInit(event:Event):void {
    addChild(loader);
    loader.content.addEventListener("onStateChange", onPlayerStateChange);
}

function onPlayerStateChange(event:Event):void {
    // Event.data contains the event parameter, which is the new player state
// make sure ExternalInterface is imported
    ExternalInterface.call("onytplayerStateChange()", Object(event).data); // calls the javascript function

}