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Public bug reported:

Currently the external Video block supports fixed list of content providers. Which happens to be quite limited.
Another approach to support external content is to rely on meta data provided in the page to extract the content and embed it. Two protocols exists to do that: 

- open graph protocol - i.e. Facebook
- oEmbed

Those two allows you not only to embed videos but more generaly to add
rich content - slides, audio, etc.  Both are very well supported by
content providers.

Those protocols are open ended, that is you are not limited to a fixed
list of sites but allows you to embed content from any site supporting
them.

We developped our own artefact plugin to circumvent those limitations -
another one exists based on embed.ly - but I believe it would make sense
to extend/modify the video block and provide support at the core level.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Use oEmbed/ogp for the external video block to support more sites?

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently the external Video block supports fixed list of content providers. Which happens to be quite limited.
  Another approach to support external content is to rely on meta data provided in the page to extract the content and embed it. Two protocols exists to do that: 

  - open graph protocol - i.e. Facebook
  - oEmbed

  Those two allows you not only to embed videos but more generaly to add
  rich content - slides, audio, etc.  Both are very well supported by
  content providers.

  Those protocols are open ended, that is you are not limited to a fixed
  list of sites but allows you to embed content from any site supporting
  them.

  We developped our own artefact plugin to circumvent those limitations
  - another one exists based on embed.ly - but I believe it would make
  sense to extend/modify the video block and provide support at the core
  level.

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