If you have ever embedded a You Tube video, you may have noticed there are no flashvars to indicate the video file. Everything the player needs to know is encoded into the player url itself. This method allows short and uncomplicated embed code. The xmoovStream Player Loader is an actionscript 2 source, which provides such functionality. It allows you to embed a Flash player, which loads media content using only the embed url itself without the need for any flashvars.

This method allows you to define standards for publishing media content on your web site and is especially beneficial if you are allowing others to embed your content. If you use nice urls, you can use a version of the same url to link to your embedded player such as in the following examples.

If the nice url to a video page is as follows:
http://mysite.com/podcast/about-my-podcast.html

You can supply the video player and content using the following url:
http://mysite.com/embed/video/flv/about-my-podcast

You can even offer an audio version using the following url:
http://mysite.com/embed/audio/mp3/about-my-podcast