Video Sitemaps - Clarification Needed

[dgmiles]

I'm trying to make sense of video sitemaps so I can get one up and going but the set up seems unclear. We currently have 7 videos created and up on Youtube. I've got them embedded on the site to a "Video" landing page as well as having these product demo videos embedded on appropriate product detail pages.

So when setting up the video sitemap it looks like I'll be using the  video:player_loctag as opposed to  video:content_locbecause I'm not linking to the file itself but rather a page it's hosted on. Correct? Additionally I'm adding the product detail page url here, not Youtube right? Lastly, do I need to insert an autoplay piece on the videos on the product detail page? I feel that would be an annoying user experience.</video:content_loc></video:player_loc>

So part of my sitemap might look like this...

<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=[?]">http://website/ProductDetailURL</video:player_loc>

[dgmiles]

No problem, thanks for the input. I've read the post which actually created some of my questions originally.

[DanDeceuster]

I haven't done a video sitemap, but I remember reading the Google blog post explaining them, so I'm not sure if you have read either of these resources or not, but they would be an excellent place to look for an answer to your question if no one else here knows how to answer them for you:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/introducing-video-sitemaps.html

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, good luck!