more or less embedded means that a video runs as though it were Pasted into the page on which it appears.
If there were an inage of a video on this page..it would have been embedded.
Some software configurations allow for embedding some don’t
It may be a choice that FREE REPUBLIC made to keep the access speed as fast as it is. It literally screams...speed wise. and embedded video might slow that access speed down. I
Thanks,Mikey——I knew you would have an easy to understand explanation.
You are a true mensch.
It's not bandwidth. If video embedding were allowed, the video would still be served from wherever it is hosted, just as images currently are. E.g., if the <video> tag were allowed, the <source> tag(s) would still have to point outside FR, just as <img> tags, animated or otherwise, now do.
I suspect the reason was to avoid requiring the posting software to know too much HTML. When you write a post, you are contributing HTML code to the page, and the posting software needs to make sure your post isn't going to screw up the whole page. E.g., if you leave a <b> unclosed, the rest of the page would be in bold if the posting routine didn't notice and close it automatically. It manages to do that, but, to keep it simple, it strips out stuff it doesn't understand and therefore can't control, such as video embedding tags, iframes, CSS, JavaScript, etc.