Add a filter for video shortcode pattern

[anonymized_10765487]

Hi for now it's possible with WP 3.9.1 to add a shortcode to embed video or audio content without iFrame and it's cleaner. It's also responsive which allowds us to skip the use of additional scripts such as fitvidjs.

The only thing is that it's made for self hosted videos and YouTube but other providers are not taken into account.

That would be a great enhancement if you add a filter at this line : https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.9.1/src/wp-includes/media.php#L1714

Something you might combine with actual list of oEmbed providers.

Is that possible? Why is it just YouTube? Maybe there's a good reason I don't know. Hopefully I get a 'yes' on this

[aaroncampbell]

As for why we treat YouTube special in this case, it's because we use ​MediaElement.js and they ​have special support for YouTube. My understanding is that they only have special support like that for YouTube, so it wouldn't make sense to allow that code to match anything else.

Having said all that, if you need to do something that the video shortcode doesn't do, you can use the wp_video_shortcode_override filter to completely shortcut it and do anything you want with it.

[Fab1en]

MediaElement.js DOES support other providers : Vimeo is supported since ​version 2.14.0 (WordPress version 3.9). I have also submitted a pull request to support Dailymotion, but it has not been merged yet.

Using wp_video_shortcode_override filter is a solution that duplicates a lot of WordPress Core code inside a plugin, just to change one or two lines.

[wonderboymusic]

I already attempted to add Vimeo here:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/29267/29267.2.diff

Long story short: it doesn't really work. I am not going to add a filter there, it will just produce bug reports for things we have no control over. If an elegant solution for adding Vimeo via Froogaloop emerges, we'll probably add it.