YouTube or SoundCloud Embed Fields

What do you think is the best way of executing a YouTube Video Embed or Soundcloud Playlist Embed field?

The Showcase I am building and forum community around it has a heavy emphasis on music and their related music videos. What do you think is the best way of doing this kind of media embed field without resorting to a full rich-text field?

I would like to be as user friendly as possible so the more idiot proof the better. I know what possibly way is to ask for the Video ID and parse the HTML embed manually, but asking people for the Video ID is a bit complicated.

Is there a way to use ask for a Single-Line Textbox, verify its a URL, then try to parse it through the default [Media = YouTube] handling?

 

That is alright.

I was able to get it working using some real hackney Javascript to parse the video URL, grab the ID, then generate an embed code. You can see it in action here.

For anyone interested in adding your own YouTube embed custom field here is the Javascript I used, edit it accordingly to suit your own needs:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function getParameter(url, name) {
    var urlparts = url.split('?');
    if (urlparts.length > 1) {
        var parameters = urlparts[1].split('&');
        for (var i = 0; i < parameters.length; i++) {
            var paramparts = parameters[i].split('=');
            if (paramparts.length > 1 && unescape(paramparts[0]) == name) {
                return unescape(paramparts[1]);
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

var vidid;
vidid = (getParameter('{$valueRaw}', 'v'));

var embedsourcecode;
embedsourcecode = "<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/" + vidid + "\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>";

document.write(embedsourcecode);

</script>

Even better than a custom field option would be that existing suggestion of being able to add Media Embeds as part of the gallery.

My code only works for one sample video, I really liked the other user's idea and went ahead and commented on his feature suggestion.