Embed from the BBC

The BBC is starting to adopt Flash as their video platform of choice across a number of sites and this is gradually going to increase over the next few months.

Here is a Reverend and the Makers interview from Later with Jools Holland.

Then there’s a music based clip which is pretty cool. Rio Kiley performing Moneymaker.

I can’t find any other embed examples at the moment – there are other services using flash like Nature of Britain and Torchwood and even the iPlayer but they don’t include an embed link.

UPDATE: Here is one from the Electric Proms of Bloc Party.

It isn’t just the BBC though – Channel 4 and E4 have started offering flash clips of shows (not full shows yet though) and with the clips embed links OF EVERYTHING on E4 – although nothing seems to be embeddable on Channel 4.

With the BBC – it’s only a matter of time before everything is flash (at least all video) and you get a link asking if you want to watch in Real or Windows Media as an alternative. Then the audio will follow suit – some audio files are already flash (Glastonbury interviews) – the Radio Player will go the same way soon-ish.