Vimeo and Youtube pinning support

[overshard]

The core social video sites for now since they both have easy embeddables. Need to grab a "screenshot" of the video, can be done via the API I think, to put as the pin thumbnail.

[overshard]

Completed in a branch till @kklimonda told me it was terrible and he is building plugin system...

[overshard]

Pending completion of #30

[rafirosenberg]

id like to help on this issue .. but i dont want to replicate efforts .. can you update me on where you are holding with this?

[overshard]

It was completed a bit but then we scrapped it till Krzysztof built a plugin system. Both of us got kind of busy and we didn't do either. If you want to re implement it without the plugin system then go ahead and I'll check it out and see about pulling it.

[rafirosenberg]

great ... il work in it piecemeal .. and you’ll let me know if you like
the style and direction I'm taking .. all the best .. and I think you
got a great thing going so keep it up!

On 01/10/2014 02:22 PM, Isaac Bythewood wrote:

It was completed a bit but then we scrapped it till Krzysztof built a
plugin system. Both of us got kind of busy and we didn't do either. If
you want to re implement it without the plugin system then go ahead
and I'll check it out and see about pulling it.

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[rafirosenberg]

do you think we would want to play the video on pinry or on youtube (or
both)? Obviously it would be much easier to simply have the image be a
link to the page on youtube/vimeo ... but it may be more user friendly
to play it on the pinry.

do you think we would want to have a different look or shape or
thumbnail sizes for videos? Perhaps they would each need an overlay of a
"video arrow" at the very least

and how about the form.. would we want it to look (be) the same or
different? (I imagine we would want it in the same form, and instead of
saying "image url" .. it might say "image or video url" if we go with one
form for all then we will need to amend the form to distinguish between
a youtube/vimeo urls and then have different functions if it is

[overshard]

How I originally had it implemented is that it pulled a thumbnail from the provider to use as a placeholder on the overall board. Then once you clicked on the thumbnail, like you do any posting, it will go to the lightbox view which then has a Youtube/Vimeo video player and you can just play the video directly from Pinry.

[rafirosenberg]

great ... im on it... i had aleady staarted this morning ... along those
lines ... ill update you with some progress soon ... since we are using
one light box... I think ill add a js switch to update a youtube prop in
the context .. and maybe well store a youtube id in the core.pins model

[overshard]

Yep, all we really need is the video id from youtube or vimeo... everything else we can pull/just have in the code.

[rafirosenberg]

could you check out my pull request
#58

and add me as a contributor if you like the work ... there is on small
bug ill work on tonight but let me know if you like where i am going
with it ... thanks

[overshard]

I'm not sure how much interest we have in pinning videos at this point in time, it's basically the same as a "Website URL" pin. I'm closing this.

[lapo-luchini]

OTOH I seldom would like to pin "short mp4", which is such a better* format than "gif" ever was and is finally starting to replace it…
*: as in full 24bit colors occuping 1/10-1/50 than a shiffy 256-colors animation.