Adding videos hosted on third-party websites
In most cases, if your website is not about hosting video content there is almost no need to enable users to upload videos to your website. Instead, you would rather be more interested in providing the best interoperability as possible with other third-party websites such as YouTube, so that your users can share video content from such popular websites.
In this section we will explore how it is made possible to integrate with other websites.
Creating our video content type
Most commonly, users will want to link, embed, or include in some way, videos that have already been made available through third-party websites, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Metacafe.
Our use case will be to create video content around the music industry, such as sharing videos of favorite bands. Some ideas on how you can take this concept forward and develop it further are as follows:
By adding social features such as rating, thumbs-up, and some gamification where you can create...
