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July 2, 2009

Posterous supports YouTube HD embeds. Also new: Auto-expansion of screencast.com and thedailyshow.com videos


YouTube has announced HD embeds, which is great because HD is so breathtakingly good. We just added support for these HD embeds and detect if it's possible. So now if you have an HD video, just paste the URL into email or a post editor page, or use our bookmarklet, and we'll auto-expand to the HD embed, and you don't even have to lift a finger (or check a checkbox, as it were).


What's more, we just added auto-embed functionality for the fine screenshot / screencast hosting site, screencast.com, and the much-loved Daily Show online video site. Paste a URL, and go to town, we'll drop in the embed.

Got a site that doesn't work yet for you? Fire us an email or leave a comment below, and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

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Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (13)

Jul 02, 2009
John Maklary said...
Thanks for all the new features! Other sites that would be great for auto embedding would be animoto.com and picasa webs -- videos can be posted there and they provide a direct link to videos. Being able to have those links expanding in a post would be great!
Jul 02, 2009
Obleo said...
screencast added, you guys rock! thanks.
Jul 03, 2009
benzrad zhu said...
i hope facebook and flickr video soon supported. and if i can autopost to yahoo profiles and myspace blog, that should be great.
really nice, posterous.
Jul 03, 2009
Charnita Fance said...
So for screencast.com support that means we can add links directly from Jing (which uses screencast.com)?
Jul 03, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Charnita -- yup -- just paste the URL and we'll expand it.
Jul 03, 2009
Игорь Денисов (Igor Denisov) said...
Would you make Explore page more 'regional'? For example, people from Russia will see not only blogs by people from US or other countries, but popular blogs from Russians too.
Jul 04, 2009
Vincent Chu said...
@benzrad Facebook video is already enabled -- just go to your autopost settings page and enable it there. Flickr videos are on the way!
Jul 04, 2009
Wesley de Souza said...
You have the best service I've seen, simple and works just like you advertise. I can't wait to see the themes enabled.
Jul 05, 2009
Don Campbell said...
Gary, you guys are awesome. The pace that you keep adding new features is amazing!
Jul 06, 2009
Kahlil Lechelt said...
Daily Show embeds! WHAT?! Nice.
Jul 06, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
Bravo as always for posterous new embeds
Nov 23, 2009
Scott Bratcher said...
Thanks @posterous for picking up Screencast.com, the site that hosts my Jing captures. Haven't used Jing? Give it a go, you won't look back: google "Jing screen capture".
Nov 29, 2009
Bert said...
I've just tried, and I can't get HD-embeds of YouTube videos.

Wouldn't it be possible for you guys to copy over the params I add to a YouTube URL? I'm talking about:
- Full HD (1080p): &fmt=37
- HD-Ready (720p): &fmt=22
- HQ: &fmt=18
- Regular: &fmt=6

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