Videoclip MicroContent

When analysing the TVTube application, I realised that we have a new Type of MicroContent here. This MicroContent Type helps to define VideoClip Items, such as can be found on Google Video, YouTube, etc.

TVTube defines this MicroContent Type as a title, a description, a thumbnail and the embed code. The embed code is where the interesting things happen. This code defines the content type (movie), the size of the movie (425x350), the URI to the movie (http://www.youtube.com/v/zyyCcjbrWOM), the application plugin that must be used to play the movie (application/x-shockwave-flash). I wonder whether all these elements have to be baked into the embed code or can be made more flexible.

See the example above where I mashed a videoclip Item into this Blog Item.

This MicroContent Type is reminiscent of a bookmark. Only some extra technical information on video has been added. And for mashing purposes some of this information will be needed (video size for instance), but for clipping into a decent videoplayer Client this should not be necessary. Just like a normal bookmark one should able to drag and drop a videoclip into a client, on the desktop or whatever.

Categories/tags: MicroContent • type • video
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