Yahoo! Video, Fix! Your! Embedding!

I'm back on the easy video embedding tags for Minx.  I've done, let's see, ten different sites so far.  They're all a little different, but in each case, there's a unique video ID, and you can unpack that from the provided URL and repack it into their embedding code and it works.  For most of the sites this was easy.  For one, eyespot, it's a bit of a pain (and the page URLs are useless).

And then there's Yahoo! Video, who give you this:

<embed src='http://us.i1.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/
player/media/swf/FLVVideoSolo.swf' flashvars='id=1020374
&emailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com
%2Futil%2Fmail%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26vid%3D136897
&imUrl=http%253A%252F%252Fvideo.yahoo.com
%252Fvideo%252Fplay%253Fei%253DUTF-8%2526vid%253D136897
&imTitle=Kitten%2Band%2Bhis%2Bbox
&searchUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/search?p=
&profileUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/profile?yid=
&creatorValue=Y2FiYWxsYXZlcmRl&vid=136897' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='350'></embed>

Gah.

Update: Right. In less than an hour I've added BBCode tags for iFilm, Eyespot, Veoh and Guba.  Just don't ask me about Yahoo! Video.
Well, okay, I've got it mostly working.



Still the dumbest implementation of any site I've seen so far.

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