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When will you support Flickr video?
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Inappropriate?We're waiting on Flickr to fully reveal the video features in the Flickr API [1]. Once they do that, we'll look into how we're going to support it in the application.
It's certainly something we're watching, but because so much is undone on Flickr's side right now, we can't give a hard answer as to when we can support it.
[1] http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
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Oh hey! It's Adam from macgeekery.com! I didn't know you were part of this company.
In any case, they wrote up a blog post re: video and their API: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/05/0... which i'm sure you've read. As I understand it, the only thing they haven't exposed is accessing the resulting FLV file directly. -
Right, and for us to both upload and browse the videos property (as least, what I'd call properly), we need to have some kind of access to the video for playback. I think it would be rather hackish to have a web view just for their Flash player code to reside in, though that may be the eventual solution if there's no further movement on the API or file format front.
QuickTime doesn't natively support the FLV encapsulation format (it requires Perrian the last time I checked) so even with the URL of the FLV file we'd still be in a bind as far as playback and media handling go. What I was hoping to see from Flickr is access to an MP4 file on their side, but it doesn't look like they're going that route. So our choices are limited to either finding a way to include FLV playback code in the app and waiting on the FLV file access (unlikely for various reasons, mostly library licensing issues) or having videos only playable in the detail view (what you get when you double-click on a photo). When it's a video, we'd replace the view with a WebKit view and a player just like you have on the web.
I'm not too fond of it, but that's what we can do with what we have from Flickr. So, as I mentioned in the other response, we're waiting to see what kind of developments come from Flickr in this area before we commit to fully supporting video. The problem is more browsing than uploading at this point (we can always swap in a generic "it's video" thumbnail in the uploader and then allow the file type through all the checks to quickly get video upload in place since the API didn't change there).
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