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Hosting Youtube Videos without the Logo

26 May 2009 No Comment

How can I embed a high quality Youtube video on my Wordpress blog without their logo plastered on every frame, annoying pop up ads and other user videos?

Yes, this is annoying and we all know what it looks like: horrible. Thankfully, without getting into the boring technical details behind Youtube’s video player, it is possible to separate all of the player’s coding to reveal only your video.

Somewhere on Youtube’s servers sits a master file of your video apart from the player- this video has its own URL that you can call up at any time. Whether it is an FLV or MP4 it sits there hidden, encoded behind the Youtube Player so know one can get to it.

There’s PHP scripts, customized code and specialized websites that make it easier to find that hidden URL for downloading the video direct to your desktop or embedding it on your own website but keep in mind embedding content (especially someone else’s) apart from the Youtube player is a violation of  Youtube’s terms of service - embed with the risk of losing favor with Google and all the services they offer.

Let’s get started:

What you will need:

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