Google Apps Viewer-like Thing for Audio/Video?

[Joshua Smith]

Can anyone here recommend a site/service similar to docs.google.com/viewer, but which handles audio/video files?

I have these files stored in the blobstore, and I'm hoping to be able to let my users view/hear the file. I know I could write something using HTML 5, Flash fallbacks, javascript, etc. But I'm wondering if there is something out there that just takes a URL and plays it?

(Obviously, I'm not looking for a silver bullet. If it only plays some formats and not others, it's still better than nothing.)

-Joshua

[Barry Hunter]

http://webplayer.yahoo.com/

Maybe?

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[Joshua Smith]

Thanks for the tip. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Integrating it in to my page took about 20 seconds :)

Anyone know of a better one? It doesn't seem to handle many media types, and it relies on Flash and hence doesn't work on iThings.

-Joshua

[N. Rosencrantz]

I use 1pixelout.swf but that is flash and audio only so I understand the limitations.
Still it worked well for a project where I wanted to display a list of mp3 and a player for each.
I think it should be a feature request to add functions like these to app engine in an "independent" way such as the get_serving_url is accessible both to Java and python developers similarly there could be more functions for multimedia and text since sometimes app engine is very good for storage and programming your own functions but it doesn't have many functions built in.
Cheers,
Niklas