I think we need to get Galnet on board here, he's already very familiar with working on the player. This is essentially an extension to it's functionality, plus he seems to be an experienced PHP programmer. I'll PM him and see if we can get him to chime in on this thread.

By the way Gerbil, having played with your hack, I noticed that with the current player, the embedded video (when playing at a different site) has a problem playing the pre-roll and the video in one flowing motion. It plays the pre-roll, then stops (so anyone watching it might wonder what's going on, as it is not the video they are expecting). In order to get the actual video to play after the pre-roll, you have to hit the "next" button, which appears next to the "play" button (to the right) when the pre-roll has finished playing.

Maybe I did something wrong, I don't know. I embedded the video in iframe mode and not "object" mode, maybe that has something to do with it, I just got tied up and didn't have time to test with embedding in "object" mode. Have you noticed the same?

We need to get this thing done one way or another, but obviously there doesn't seem to be enough momentum behind it yet.