video embedding (flash)

May 19, 2007 5:20 PM

The new flash media player from Jeroen Wijering can show mp3s, SWF and FLV video, photos and RSS/XSPF/ATOM playlists. Should MetaFilter allow FPPs to use this? Are inline video comments/playlists a feature to avoid?
posted by acro to Feature Requests at 5:20 PM (33 comments total)

Are inline video comments/playlists a feature to avoid?

I sure as hell don't want to see inline video or audio links in FPPs. Is this likely to catch on?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:41 PM on May 19, 2007

I sure as hell don't want to see inline video or audio links.
posted by majick at 5:43 PM on May 19, 2007

do not want
posted by ijoshua at 5:44 PM on May 19, 2007

no. not on the front page. no way.
posted by punkrockrat at 5:49 PM on May 19, 2007

If I have to click it to play it, I'm fine with inline video, audio, or any other kind of media. If it plays when I open the page, I hate it and want it to die like a dying dead deathly thing of deathly dying.
posted by cgc373 at 5:49 PM on May 19, 2007 [5 favorites]

And regardless of whether it's integrated into MetaFilter or not, that Flash player is pretty damned sweet.
posted by cgc373 at 5:51 PM on May 19, 2007

Maybe where there is currently the youtube popup, you could have the this flash player? Where some posts have 6 - 10 different youtube clips, they could be shown within the popup playlist...
posted by acro at 5:52 PM on May 19, 2007

How ironic would that be, if we could have embedded video/audio, but no images???
posted by blue_beetle at 6:11 PM on May 19, 2007

Better yet, let's pester matt for a web-based BBS layout, replete with animated gifs and long, rambling signatures in an absolutely hideous, nearly unreadable font color. We'd submit the images to him in advance for the sake of keeping the servers free of malware, but it'd be pretty much like any other web-based BBS layout...

...Except ours would have more than the usual animated gifs of police morgue photos and animals copulating, just to seperate us from the other places online.
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:19 PM on May 19, 2007

NO
THIS ONE IS MINE
I WISH TO CRUSH THE LIFE FROM IT WITH MY OWN HANDS!
posted by loquacious at 6:49 PM on May 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

Just curious, as someone interested in user interface and design, are you folks opposed to inline video just in Metafilter, because it busts up Metafilter's soothing look, or do you hate any blog with embedded video? Or, for that matter, do you just hate web-based video?
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg at 6:50 PM on May 19, 2007

Lore, I reckon in the broadest consensus it's just an objection for Mefi. Inline media is great for some things, but the text-driven nature of the front page is pretty signature to the site.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:58 PM on May 19, 2007

(And yeah, it's a pretty nice player; I've used it for a couple small projects myself with good results.)
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:59 PM on May 19, 2007

Hold up - don't we already have that nifty, semi-inline YouTube player/window thing?
posted by niles at 7:02 PM on May 19, 2007

Yeah, but it's a members-only, opt-in post hoc experiment reacting to the steady proliferation of youtube links that had become a norm on the site over the previous year. The battle, in a sense, was already lost there; Matt just found some chic body bags.

For my part, I feel a hazy but potent caution toward the idea of pro-actively broadening the scope of inline media on the site.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:06 PM on May 19, 2007

I MADE YOU A WORLD WIDE WEB





BUT FLASH EATED IT
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:13 PM on May 19, 2007

Sjoberg, the embedded players create more “weight” on the page because the Flash plugin has to load, even if they don’t play the embedded media automatically.
posted by ijoshua at 7:16 PM on May 19, 2007

No More Media.
Things have been sweet since the Matt got rid of images.
posted by signal at 7:32 PM on May 19, 2007

That is extremely not new.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:42 PM on May 19, 2007

are you folks opposed to inline video just in Metafilter, because it busts up Metafilter's soothing look

Yeah that.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:32 PM on May 19, 2007

"...because it busts up Metafilter's soothing look"

Yeah, well, it may look soothing, but as soon as you read anything from quonsar that whole soothing thing is out the window.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:23 PM on May 19, 2007

Can't we just bring the fucking image tag back for 24 hours? It would be very entertaining and cleansing. Like a bowel cleanse at the end of a long meat eating drug binge.

Fucking please - I have pain. I want to see dead cats and pissing elephants.
posted by strawberryviagra at 12:21 AM on May 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Video embedding on the blue looks about as unlikely as a third Bush term.
posted by chuckdarwin at 1:29 AM on May 20, 2007

a third Bush term.

*shudders*
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:19 AM on May 20, 2007

Matt already embedsd the Odeo player for his podcast posts, so he's not absolutely against the idea.
posted by ardgedee at 7:00 AM on May 20, 2007

As far as this is concerned, my vote can be bought (no checks please).

It would be fine if they were on the inside, but not as FPP.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:27 AM on May 20, 2007

I'm surprised that no one has asked where the media displayed inline would be hosted. Unless it's hosted here at metafilter--which Matt has suggested he doesn't want to do--or at a site like YouTube which allows people to embed the player at other sites, you are basically suggesting that we create a tool to allow hotlinking of music and video files.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:25 AM on May 20, 2007

we create a tool to allow hotlinking of music and video files.

Bad idea jeans...
posted by gen at 9:27 AM on May 20, 2007

But what about the RSS readers? Whatever shall they do?
posted by smackfu at 3:57 PM on May 20, 2007

Apollo ™- Cast?, Silverlight™ - Enclosure Format?
posted by acro at 4:37 PM on May 20, 2007

I use a greasemonkey script that inlines the google flash mp3 player but it kills my system anytime I visit a page with more than a couple of mp3s. I end up disabling greasemonkey and reloading the page.

How ironic would that be, if we could have embedded video/audio, but no images???

I'd just make a video of images.
posted by srboisvert at 4:31 AM on May 21, 2007

(The media player can display PNGs JPGs, and !GIFs).
posted by acro at 8:57 AM on May 21, 2007

I like text. Word.
posted by chunking express at 10:52 AM on May 22, 2007