[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40808: Media Widgets: VideoPress Uploads Not Functioning Correctly

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#40808: Media Widgets: VideoPress Uploads Not Functioning Correctly
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 Reporter:  timmydcrawford  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Widgets         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |     Focuses:  javascript, administration
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Changes (by westonruter):

 * keywords:   => needs-patch
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => 4.8


Comment:

 I think perhaps a more underlying issue is adding support for more oEmbeds
 than just YouTube and Vimeo, as VideoPress is also an oEmbed. So if at the
 point of media selection we can then make sure that the widget instance
 has a `url` that is the oEmbed URL as opposed to the faux file URL, then
 we can enter into the `is_hosted_video` condition. If the URL provided
 doesn't look like a file URL, then we could at that point we could assume
 that the URL is for an oEmbed fire off an oEmbed proxy request to obtain
 the HTML for rendering the player and write it into an iframe.

 Another piece to consider is the error message when providing a embed URL.
 Let's say you try to add a video by supplying the oEmbed URL itself:
 https://videopress.com/v/OAVHZIvv This then should not be rejected. In
 order to do that we should be exporting all of the
 `\WP_oEmbed::$providers` to the client so that we can check against them
 instead of statically only looking for YouTube or Vimeo as we do with
 hard-coding right now.

 See https://github.com/xwp/wp-core-media-
 widgets/issues/160#issuecomment-301678111

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