> > Talking about embeds for videos, is it a standard practice to make
> > videos available in flash format? We allow users of our system to
> > upload any kind of asset; so videos can be anything - flash, wmv, avi
> > etc. We can create flash proxies for these. But I wanted to know what
> > is the accepted way of doing this? And same questions goes with other
> > types of assets like pdf, doc, ppts, mp3 etc.

> oEmbed doesn't directly expose the original files for video and interactive
> media types, so you can emit whatever HTML code is necessary to show an
> inline player or download gadget for the formats you choose to expose.

> My own preference is for the embedding HTML you give to just be an iframe
> with a URL, and have that load up a mini-frame that uses whatever player
> tech is appropriate for the web browser loading it.

> Don't forget that Flash isn't always available, especially on tablets and
> smartphones! If you're already converting to MP4/H.264 for Flash, I strongly
> recommend having at least an HTML 5 <video> fallback using the same file.
> (If you're brave, include WebM and Theora transcodes as well for the
> patent-free open source set! :)

> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)