Daiko’s Google Video Widget - Soon ready!
October 12th, 2007 by Daiko
I’ve been working on a Google Video Widget with similar features as Daiko’s YouTube Widget. After playing with the amazing search feeds you get on Google Video I think the following features can be added:
- Display thumbnails of the videos.
- Play in ThickBox player, or Daiko’s VideoPlayer.
- One-click subscribe to feed in iTunes (will only display Google Videos as podcast episodes).
- Link to copy into other podcast readers
- Download link on individual videos (depending on availability)
One of the things I have to decide since this is a Google Video search based widget, is how to handle the YouTube and videos from other sources. It will be easiest to just take out other results, but the coolest would be if it worked with all.
Stay tuned and suggest features!
Have a nice Wordpress weekend!
Could you please add support for the clips title and description at the side of the widget images?
Hi Jonny,
I’ll add that to the request list. Thank you for your interest. At the moment I’m also looking into making it into a combined plugin and widget. The idea is to store your favorite videos and their info in a local database table. As you publish videos in your posts, they would be optionally added to your widget too. The advantage of using a mysql table to store the info is that there is no need to run through the rss parsing each time you want to get video-info. First time you add a video it is done in the admin interface, and yes I plan to store all info available. That is for example video length, width/height (will identify 16:9 videos), author, description, download link (only available for Google Video, not for youtube). The download size is not in the feed but should be possible to estimate from length.
As the scope for this new widget/plugin now is expanding I might need more time than usual.