Whenever you are watching videos, whether in window mode or full screen mode, clicking the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard will flip forward and back through your active playlist.
As of the 1.1 release, YaYa is now based on Flex 4 instead of Flex 3. As expected the entire app had to be reworked due to the massive differences in the flex frameworks between versions and while many of the changes are behind the scenes and code related, some of more important front end changes users will notice are:
1. The YaYa Video Player is now a Spark Video Player Component – Video controls are much more responsive now and the video player can be switched into a true full screen mode. To exit full screen you simply hit the ESC key.
2. Download ability separated from search results – in the old version you downloaded and tracked the download status from the list of YouTube returns. This did not allow you to perform another search until all downloads were complete. The new version handles downloads differently and you can download items while performing a new search. You can add items to the download cue as many times as you like no matter what else is going on in the app.
3. Cue to master playlist – in the old version the library was it’s own playlist and the YouTube search results were their own playlist. In the new version you cue items from the library or YouTube search results to your “Active Playlist”. Dropped videos and direct loaded videos are also added to the active playlist now so in theory your active playlist can contain items from four possible cue directions. Items can be removed from the active playlist individually or the entire active playlist can be cleared.
4. Papervision now integrated – the panels are now animated with Papervision effects. The Accordion from the old version is gone and now the control bar is on the right of the app and all buttons are active or disabled depending on what is going on around them.
5. Online User Guide added – inside there is a link to view/download the YaYa User Guide.
Screenshots follow:
I released "YaYa" (Yet Another YouTube App) 1/25/10 to the Adobe Showcase.
YaYa lets you search for YouTube videos and download them to be added to a local library. Your library supports favorites and title searching to create customized playlists selected from your favorites. YaYa can simultaneously download videos to be directly added to your library. YaYa supports drag and drop of FLV’s right to your library too. You can take screenshots of your videos as they play and export them as JPG or PNG files right to your YaYa folder in your documents directory. You do not need an internet connection to view your local library but of course it’s needed to search YouTube and add videos to your library.
This app expands on in-R-tube in some very significant ways. Mainly the library is now database driven (SQLite) so it allows me to do things like allow library searching and bookmarking. You can bookmark videos in your library and then only show your bookmarks to create a custom playlist. You can title search your library to create a playlist as well. The screenshot ability has also been improved upon and you can preview all screenshots and remove any unwanted screenshots before exporting them. You can export screenshots as JPG or PNG. Another upgrade is the multiple OS support. in-R-tube was Windows only but YaYa is for Windows, Linux or MacOS thanks to Adobe AIR. Instead of single video downloads, you can now download multiple videos at once to be inserted directly to your library.
Tonight I’m adding to it a bit. I’m adding the ability to shuffle the playlist, adding support for “genre’s” and tweaking the library search to allow searching by multiple criteria if desired (like search for all bookmarked videos with genre of rap). When that is added the version will be updated from v.3 to v.4
Today I’m submitting both the standalone ABCms system (which saves posts to disk or sqlite database) and also the new KM-CODEX Desktop Forum that integrates the platform tied to PHP/MySQL.
All existing forum posts have been converted over to the platform. Users of the older version boards will have to download and install a new digitally signed version.
Screenshots of the new app mentioned in my last post. This is being submitted to the Adobe AIR Showcase and also available here. My AIR apps are now certified so I’ll be replacing the Desktop Forum with a signed version soon.
