This is/will (be) a very simple oEmbed wrapper in Ruby and will be accompanied by a Rails plugin.
To Use
a = Oembed::Media(‘put the url here’)
You are then given attributes such as…
a.title
a.media_url - link to the media
a.html - a flash player for videos and a <img> tag for pictures html allows you to specify a height and/or width… a.html(:width => 200, :height => 1000) a.format - video/photo
Services Supported
Flickr
Vimeo
Viddler
Qik
Pownce
Revision3
Hulu - You may get problems if the server your using it on is not in the US