By using JAlbum it's easy to present your own images and videos in a nice looking gallery on the web. However, embedding material from the Internet (as for example Youtube videos) in your album, is not yet natively supported by JAlbum.
Thanks to JAlbum's rich application interface, skin developers may add this functionality to their JAlbum skins. That's the case for the LightFlow skin. Since its version 3, LightFlow can also embed content of other web sites such as:

- images, hosted on image servers like flickr, ImageShack or ImageHost.org etc.
- videos, hosted on video portals like Youtube, Daily Motion, Google Video etc.
- and even whole web pages

Benefits

One big advantage to embed externally hosted images and videos is, that you don't have to upload them to your web page hosting provider. Thus, you save your web space, you save your time not to upload heavy files and you save your nerves not to need to convert the content to other formats.

Besides this, you can also embed whole web pages into your album without copying them. This is a kind of "web syndication", also known as "content syndication": you provide other people with some content of other web sites.
For example, you could embed an interesting blog or discussion into your album, just by linking to it. Doing so, your album is always displaying the most actual content and your album visitors stay on your web site within your album!

How it works

The principle is simple: in Jalbum's user interface, you can add to each photo a link (URL) pointing to an external source as the following screenshot demonstrates.

 

Once generated the album, the photo will be shown as a thumbnail image to represent the external source, in your web album. When an album visitor clicks the thumbnail image, the external source will be displayed embedded in your album in place of the conventional slide image. Here is the embedded Youtube video:

 And the following screenshot shows an example where JAlbum's website has been embedded in an album:

 
Have a look at the example album, to see the results in real life.

If you want to know more about, have a look at LightFlow's tutorial, where you find an illustrated step-by-step tutorial how to embed a Youtube video.
Embedding other videos than Youtube (Daily Motion, Google Video, etc.) is very similar.
Just give it a try and surprise your album visitors!