Question

In the html below, first object is using url of original video copied from browser address bar, second object is using url which is generated through youtube embed button.

why first object never works? is it something related to file extension?

 <object width="420" height="315">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3YcuiOWrSQ&feature=related"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3YcuiOWrSQ&feature=related" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
    </object>

   <object width="420" height="315">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q3YcuiOWrSQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q3YcuiOWrSQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
    </object>

thanks

Answer 1

The first link doesn’t actually return the flash file for the video. It returns a page that the video is embedded in. Youtube will use the v parameter in the query string to determine which video to load in the page.

The url for embedding made by youtube in the second object is generated as a direct link to the flash file.

The Object tag is expecting a link to a flash file and not a HTML page. Which is why the second url works.