Exactly, so what is the real problem?

That they load before clicking them.

No, I'm talking about preloading. As far as I can tell the movie doesn't preload before you click on it. It's just loading the player. There's not much I can think of that we can do, I mean users already has the option to make it a link in the first place

So a real soultion is to simply link it to the page instead, which was the nomal way to do it in the first place.

Prechoice,

Prochoice.

Except instead of loading a link, it loads a black box (no buffering) So there isn't a problem to begin with, just some lack of knowledge.

Idea: Custom made youtube video loader?

Not that I know how to do it right offhand, but it might be possible to have a blank box show up that you click twice, once for the normal embedded video to load in it, and again for the video to play

Ahh, that would be quite tricky though. Think DT can do it :R''''

Possibly, thought I imagine you'd need to figure out how to load YouTube into your own Flash movie...

i can put a youtube video into a flash game/file

the problem is how to tell the flash what video to play
i assume the "black box" can have a variable (the url of the youtube video being the variable), and the youtube tags would load the black box with that variable using <param> tags (like normal)

then when you click the black box, it loads that certain video

i can do some more research, but i bet i can make a beta example of it

Could you show me an example? Since I know you can pass variables into Flash through the url

sure, i'll make one right now

here you go!
when you click the video, it loads a youtube video (which is the var in the html)
i will "customize" for you if you would like
example:(uses the code below)
http://sirtopeia.com/youtube.html

and here is an example with the vars in the swf url:
http://sirtopeia.com/Sirtovideoplayer.s ... YnpFrcU&hl


EDIT: now that i think of it, i can make another var that can hold the title of the video (that the user can name using bbc code)

Thanks, that may just work! It might be possible to write a custom BBCode then and change the behavior of the current tag without changing how you type it. Mind giving me a copy of the SWF to test with? I'd hate to be stealing your bandwidth.

yea lol, don't be sending me a uber sized bill
http://sirtopeia.com/Sirtovideoplayer.swf
that is the empty swf
the variable is named "vid" (put the youtube swf in there)

run this link through the embed code, and you are done, that simple!
sirtovideoplayer.swf?vid=youtube swf here, no quotes

and if you just send me a png or something, i can put it on the swf, and you can have it match the site layout

Check it out!!

EDIT: (You may now use the tag)

Think you could make a modified version with the YouTube logo on it?