Embed tags in RSS feeds

Yeah, I just bumped into this today.

Sure would be nice to see fixed.. though I don't know where to begin digging at it.

Any idea what would be involved with adding a new display for the cck field?

I'd actually quite like to see this too

I'd like to see it as well, and wouldn't mind trying to add this .. but I don't even know where to begin.

My skills with CCK is, well, limited. Do I make this a display field formatter? Do I add another embedding type for swftools? Should this be an external module instead of changing swftools?

I'm doing this with Google Reader in mind, so with that said - Anyone know where I could find information on how Google Reader expects an RSS feed with an enclosure to be formatted?

Thanks...

I've been playing with Contemplate to alter the output of the RSS feed for my Video content type. On the site, it loads the JW4 player with SWFTools, and everything is fine. In the RSS feed though, it's just a blank entry. Pretty bad.

I've been testing stuff in Google Reader, and I'm guessing it only displays content from trusted sources. Here's my reasoning:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0pqzNJYzh7I&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="853" height="505"></embed>

If hardcode this as the output for the content type, the video will successfully work on Google Reader.

<embed src="http://popkrazy.com/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/flash_media_player/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="853" height="505"></embed>

However, if I change the src="" attribute to the JW Player.swf location on my server, nothing appears in Google Reader. If I save the code to a test.html page on my desktop though, it DOES load the JW Player. Is Google Reader stripping out the embed tag because it's an unknown domain?

Well I figured out the bigger issue -- Google does indeed maintain a whitelist of allowed content.

You can add your site here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cEFhbGpSX2VzVkFfMm...

I submitted my site for approval. If I get it, I'll play around with the Contemplate template.

Seems like my site didn't get approval... I haven't heard back from Google and my RSS feed hasn't magically started working either.

Anyway, here's the code I came up with for Contemplate:

Simplified version:

<?php print $node->content['body']['#value']; ?>

<embed src="http://example.com/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/flash_media_player/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="380" flashvars="file=http://example.com/<?php print $item['filepath'] ?>"></embed>

Version that works with imagecache and a thumbnail field:

<?php print $node->content['body']['#value']; ?>

<?php foreach ((array)$node->field_vlogvideo as $item) { 
if($node->field_vlog_thumbnail[0]['filename'] != "")
$image = "&image=http://example.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/vlog_thumb/".$node->field_vlog_thumbnail[0]['filename'];
?>

<embed src="http://example.com/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/flash_media_player/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="380" flashvars="file=http://example.com/<?php print $item['filepath'] ?><?php print $image; ?>"></embed>

<?php }?>

field_vlogvideo is my .mp4 video, field_vlog_thumbnail is my video thumbnail. (I allowed up to 720p screenshots, so I'm using imagecache to force resizing)

Both output the body of the post first, and then the flash player. It still doesn't work in Google Reader since my site is not white listed, but it works in Feedburner so the HTML at least works.