BB Code Enhancements - BBC Comedy BB Code

Yes, it's legal, and it allows you to embed the various videos here on the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/

Of course, without the hassle of trying to dissect the given HTML they give you to embed on blogs and social networking profiles and turn it into BB code manually (it's messy code by default, really, really messy coding). Of course, you should probably read the terms they have first, and if anyone here knows what player style choices there are, I'll add that to the BB code.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/terms/

But now, after about twenty minutes of HTML entity decoding, here's the code:

For the comedy extra videos, use this:

Title: BBC Comedy

Tag: BBC

Replacement:

<object width="512" height="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&amp;config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&amp;config_settings_skin=black&amp;config_settings_bitrateCeiling=1000&amp;playlist=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/forge-assets/extra/playlist/{param}.xml&amp;config=http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayer/offschedule.xml&amp;config_settings_showFooter=true&amp;"></param><embed src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="512" height="400" FlashVars="config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&amp;config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&amp;config_settings_skin=black&amp;config_settings_bitrateCeiling=1000&amp;playlist=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/forge-assets/extra/playlist/{param}.xml&amp;config=http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayer/offschedule.xml&amp;config_settings_showFooter=true&amp;"></embed></object>

Example: [BBC]p006623l[BBC]

Description: Use this code to embed videos from BBC Comedy (extra, user submissions) on your website/forums. May not work outside the UK.

For their other videos:

Title: BBC Video

Tag: BBCMain

Replacement:

<object width="512" height="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="playlist=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/forge-assets/extra/playlist/{param}.xml&config_settings_showFooter=true&"></param><embed src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="512" height="400" FlashVars="playlist=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/forge-assets/extra/playlist/{param}.xml&config_settings_showFooter=true&"></embed></object>

Example: [BBCMain]p0061xrw[/BBCMain]

Description: Embed short snippets of TV shows by the BBC in your posts with this code. May not work outside the UK.

I've also cleaned up the code so it's readable.

[JamesC70]

May not work outside the UK.

I can verify that the linked videos do not work outside the UK.

Some videos might be found on BBCAmerica.com if you'd like to create a companion BBCode for it.

[TimberFloorAu]

Tagged: Shame it doesnt work O/S UK ( Boo to the Beeb )

[cheat-master30]

I would create one for BBC America, but you can't see the videos (let alone try to embed them) outside the USA, so that would work in the reverse way to this code. Anyone who wants to can get me the embed code and I can release it as a BB code though.