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.

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Try it now - http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown-on-Midnight-Special-1973

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
That's exactly what I was wondering. I would have invoked *blocked if you were somewhere outside the US.

The video has been blank for me at two different locations, so I'm not sure the reason. It's a weird situation because it's definitely *dead for some places... Oh well, I guess I'll invoke *blocked, but I won't *dupeof my post until the original has a working embed.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
New Orleans.... it can't be blocked in SoCal and not here, can it?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Where are you, geographically speaking?

In reply to this comment by jonny:
works for me.
*notdead
*length=4:26

New Orleans.... it can't be blocked in SoCal and not here, can it?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Where are you, geographically speaking?

In reply to this comment by jonny:
works for me.
*notdead
*length=4:26

It works for me. It's 4:26 in duration, with Jim talking about the inspiration for the song before playing it. Yours is a subset of raven's, from the same broadcast.
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I'm confused on a couple counts:

1) You flagged it *notdead, but the embed is not loading at all; it's just a blank space.
2) You stated that Jim talks about the inspiration of the song, but that information is not present in my video, which makes mine sound like it's not a dupe.

For the moment I'm going to re-*dead raven's post and invalidate your *notdead invocation to prevent an overzealous Sifter from invoking *isdupe.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think yours is a dupe. I think the first fix might have been incorrect, because Jim does talk about the inspiration for the song, as raven described.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
*dead

Same song, different, live version here: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown

I think yours is a dupe. I think the first fix might have been incorrect, because Jim does talk about the inspiration for the song, as raven described.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
*dead

Same song, different, live version here: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Croce-Bad-Bad-Leroy-Brown

*spammer

Five minutes - that might be a record for the shortest time a video ever spent in Beggar's Canyon. The sift never has enough funk.

In reply to this comment by youdiejoe:
*beg for this great mashup on it's 2 year posting anniversary!

I think you're on to something there. Just a guess, but I bet you deleted all of the "</em>" at the end of the quoted text. That might screw up how the resulting html is interpreted by the system. That's a pretty significant bug that @lucky760 should be aware of. I think a few test cases should figure that out. I unchecked private so lucky might see this. I'm too tired (and loaded) at the moment to verify, but I'll follow up this weekend.

In reply to this comment by Truckchase:
Would it have anything to do with having deleted the latter embed code (my original quote) in the quote HTML that came up? Perhaps that could cause the post target to get screwed up somehow? I'm pretty sure I posted by clicking "Profile Reply" under your post on my profile, which if I'm understanding right that should still be posted to your profile correct?

In reply to this comment by jonny:
ummm.... that's your own profile you replied to.
In all seriousness, I think we need to do something about that. It's really amazing how many members reply to comments on their own profile. There is clearly something counter-intuitive about it.

As for dupe finding, I wouldn't ever rely on the possible dupes provided after filling out the submit video form. It's always best to do one or two quick searches with a significant word or phrase first. You'll still hit a dupe every once in a while, because the original was never tagged or titled intelligently, but it will happen a lot less often.

In reply to this comment by Truckchase:
>> ^jonny:

The five "possible dupes" on the confirm submission page are generated strictly from tags, I think. Your submission didn't have any tags in common with the original.
Ahh that makes sense, I'll be more careful. /me thanks you sir!

ummm.... that's your own profile you replied to.
In all seriousness, I think we need to do something about that. It's really amazing how many members reply to comments on their own profile. There is clearly something counter-intuitive about it.

As for dupe finding, I wouldn't ever rely on the possible dupes provided after filling out the submit video form. It's always best to do one or two quick searches with a significant word or phrase first. You'll still hit a dupe every once in a while, because the original was never tagged or titled intelligently, but it will happen a lot less often.

In reply to this comment by Truckchase:
>> ^jonny:

The five "possible dupes" on the confirm submission page are generated strictly from tags, I think. Your submission didn't have any tags in common with the original.
Ahh that makes sense, I'll be more careful. /me thanks you sir!

The five "possible dupes" on the confirm submission page are generated strictly from tags, I think. Your submission didn't have any tags in common with the original.

In reply to this comment by Truckchase:
Damn; is something broke with the "is this a possible dupe" function? Seems it worked fine a few weeks ago but tonight it came up with a bunch of vids without any of the words from the title @ all...

Thanks man! If you're interested, I sifted it. I'll be looking for more from this socal neighbor.

In reply to this comment by Phreezdryd:
Jazzhole - Free The Robots

Thank you Shazam iPhone application that identifies songs.>> ^jonny:

I'm digging that music - what is it?

Your video went dead, but as I noted in the comment, this video might be a dupe and it's working. Let me now if it is and I'll call dupeof on it.

this is a dupe too. sorry to hit ya with 2 in row like that, so I promoted the dropping balls. That's pretty neat.

hey there - I was searching for the original of this dupe and noticed that you had duped it as well. Yours is dead, but I'm pretty sure that's the same vid. Can you isdupe both? Here's the original for comparison.