There is support for YouTube, Metacafe, and one other that escapes me at the moment.
Please add support for TED and CC.
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Jul 6 2010, 5:25 am
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Not Feasible
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Hi LJR, thank you for the quick response.
Here is what the embedded code would have looked like for the lecture from Clay Shirky: <object width="446" height="326"> EMBED: http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf</object> It doesn't seem instantly derivable from a simple "ted:896". However, WordPress seems to be able to handle it as the video gives an example [ted id=896]. Given that I do not blog on WordPress, I don't know if this merely calls a special player. Comedy Central's code _appears_ to be consistent and somewhat derivable: http://www.byond.com/members/ Bootyboy?command=view_post&post=55250 Not sure though. |
It does seem like there's no way to convert the TED talk ID to a URL, so my guess is that TED maintains an XML file that the creators of WordPress know how to access. Apparently this feature only works on WordPress proper, not on self-hosted installations. This is really a shame because embedding TED into our blogs would be awesome, but I guess it has to go on the back burner till I can find out how.
I'll take a look at Comedy Central a little later to see what's involved there. I'm open to supporting pretty much any video site that allows us to use a small URL format. IIRC Hulu isn't one of those, nor Revver, but there may be more out there that work. |
TED videos are like brain candy. I'll definitely add this in if it's feasible. Mostly feasability just boils down to the URL having a common format to use, so we can convert from our service:video format to the actual URL and vice-versa.