I don't really know of any hosts in particular, other than NPR I guess, that I'd want supported. Is the host required to have a Flash embed for it to work at all? I thought that for the few hosts you mentioned below were supported "Flash free".

I don't know the details of the security issues with iframes, but it seems that at worst VideoSift itself would be a conduit (or host) for malicious code - your own servers wouldn't be liable to attack from any embed, would they? In any case, it has to be something malicious used as an embed (knowingly or not), so at the very least, you probably want to limit iframe submission to, I don't know, silver stars and up?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
The reason we've been so willing to accept the iframe hosts we accept now is they can readily be converted between iframe and Flash embeds given just a video ID.

We can consider accepting more iframes, maybe as part of VideoSift 5. Maybe make your recommendations there for new iframe hosts we should accept.

I, personally, am always hesitant to add iframes because they open a gateway onto videosift through which demons and goblins may spew forth.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Is there any chance of supporting more iframe hosts in the (near) future? I heard a great story about Igudesman & Joo tonight on NPR, and found a great video of them at the NPR studios performing, but it was iframe only (akaik).

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
There are more hosts than just YouTube that you can watch without Flash. In addition to YouTube and Vimeo, we support College Humor, Funny or Die, and Daily Motion.

The reason we've been so willing to accept the iframe hosts we accept now is they can readily be converted between iframe and Flash embeds given just a video ID.

We can consider accepting more iframes, maybe as part of VideoSift 5. Maybe make your recommendations there for new iframe hosts we should accept.

I, personally, am always hesitant to add iframes because they open a gateway onto videosift through which demons and goblins may spew forth.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Is there any chance of supporting more iframe hosts in the (near) future? I heard a great story about Igudesman & Joo tonight on NPR, and found a great video of them at the NPR studios performing, but it was iframe only (akaik).

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
There are more hosts than just YouTube that you can watch without Flash. In addition to YouTube and Vimeo, we support College Humor, Funny or Die, and Daily Motion.

Is there any chance of supporting more iframe hosts in the (near) future? I heard a great story about Igudesman & Joo tonight on NPR, and found a great video of them at the NPR studios performing, but it was iframe only (akaik).

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
There are more hosts than just YouTube that you can watch without Flash. In addition to YouTube and Vimeo, we support College Humor, Funny or Die, and Daily Motion.

@darkrowan - It was our decision to support the HTML5-based iframes of some hosts. If we didn't do that, no videos would work here without Flash.

@marinara - There are more hosts than just YouTube that you can watch without Flash. In addition to YouTube and Vimeo, we support College Humor, Funny or Die, and Daily Motion.

I don't "dead" those. It is a pain, but it is a two second pain. I can click on the link and watch on YouTube. I'm not comfortable taking the votes and the star from a Sifter just because I have to click one more time.

I'm a big kid. I can handle it.


>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
If a video says, "embedding disabled, please watch on Youtube" is it considered dead? I mean if you can't watch it here what good is it to us?

Yes, it's dead. If it's not embedded, it's not sifted.

I swear I didn't do anything to this one.
http://videosift.com/video/The-Brain-Storm-Mel-Gibson-Jamie-Foxx-and-Gary-Shandling

I hear that college humor is changing over to the iframe embed code and a lot of their videos are going dead. Should be an easy fix (I hope).

>> ^Boise_Lib:

If a video says, "embedding disabled, please watch on Youtube" is it considered dead? I mean if you can't watch it here what good is it to us?


Yes, it's dead. If it's not embedded, it's not sifted.

I barely like College Humor anymore, but that was amazing. I especially liked it when Siri was searching for a place to hide...seriously made me want to buy an iPhone and start verbally abusing it.

Thanks for the quality!

In reply to this comment by geo321:
I usually hate stuff from College Humor.

But this is good... *quality

I usually hate stuff from College Humor.

But this is good... *quality

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^lucky760:
>> ^blankfist:
I know there's a potential security issue with iframes, but I feel like we'd open our market a bit more to people who're on iPads and other devices who don't use Flash.

We already display the vast majority of all VideoSift's videos in iframes.

Oh? Did not know that. Cool.


Yep! Specifically, all YouTube, Vimeo, and now College Humor embeds are displayed in the host's iframe, which is cross-platform, cross-device, and HTML5-friendly.

>> ^lucky760:

Did the research and added support for College Humor iframe submission.
Side note: That video is already submitted: http://videosift.com/video/Batman-Interrogation


Thanks!

Did the research and added support for College Humor iframe submission.

Side note: That video is already submitted: http://videosift.com/video/Batman-Interrogation

Tags for this video have been changed from 'search, microsoft, computer, internet, college, humor' to 'search, microsoft, computer, internet, college humor' - edited by xxovercastxx

OMG Funniest College Humor EVER. I laughed so hard I cried like a baby. Anyone looking in my window probably thought I was having a seizure. God damn that was funny.