YouTube Tests New Video Player

May 28, 2007 at 9:07am ET by Barry Schwartz

Screenshots of YouTube’s New Player from Google Operating System shows a new YouTube player being tested to “improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience” says Ionut Alex. Chitu.

Here are some of the new features in the YouTube player:

You can jump to any part of the video, even if it has not yet downloaded that part
You can see thumbnails of around ten related videos before the video ends and they are shown as a Mac OS X genie type of effect at the bottom of the video
A menu button gives you easy access to copy the code to embed the video in your site or copy the URL
The new player is visible on Facebook and orkut if you embed your video’s there.

Here are screen shots of a video I have upload to Orkut to view the new player:

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON YouTube Tests New Video Player

Todd Mintz, May 28th, 2007 at 9:49 am ET:

Barry, didn’t Danny tell you that it’s a holiday and you’re supposed to take the day off? :.)

See ya at SMX!

rustybrick, May 28th, 2007 at 12:42 pm ET:

Opps, I knew I forgot something. ;)

I kept it light today…

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