I've seen this module become nicely refined. I like when editing a saved node there is a confirmation of the video that has been embedded e.g. (youtube Video ID: xxxxxxxxxxx) with the code linking to the source video. This is not however available in pre-saved nodes, preview or otherwise.

What would be great is there was a button like "Verify" which, ajax style, returned the relevant details as above - pre-save even pre-preview. There are fools out there and this could be a way of removing errors from incorrectly supplied embed urls.

Sorry I'm not the code man - I just have ideas!

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bobdalob’s picture

bobdalob commented
Project: Video CCK » Embedded Media Field

Switching request from Video CCK ("deprecated") to Embedded Media Field.

I just think if nothing else it is re-assuring.

aaron’s picture

aaron commented
Assigned: Unassigned » aaron

yeah, the validation process needs more work in general -- for instance, some providers allow us to learn (through an api) if a video even exists or is allowed to be embedded. i hope to get to this soon, now that i'm settling in from my move.

aaron

alex ua’s picture

alex ua commented
Title: Verify » Verify that remote media actually exists.
Version: 5.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev

Moving this to 6.x-2.x-dev. This would still be a nice feature, and should be relatively easy to implement (under most circumstances), since there are many parts of the $data array that are not populated unless there's actually media present on the remote host.