RSS and Video frustrations

so my long-standing frustrations with embedding video in RSS has come to a resolve, sort of.

It turns out it’s part a problem of Google Reader (the ONLY reader causing problems) and part a problem of what WordPress does when I press publish. This link shows how the editor I use changes the code; at the bottom it says the most-recent version of TinyMCE fixes this, but I won’t upgrade the core files because I might break them!; some plugins say they are RSS-compliant but require too much typing to embed a simple video; and there are more plugins than I care to test.

I don’t like to rely on complex multi-file plugins just to embed video when straight embed code or javascript is sufficient. As such I’ll be sticking with using one line of PHP to call some javascript to embed each video, it’s light and quick and gives me the most control over display and function but won’t work in RSS, all users will have to visit the post for video. Sorry. Until the core code improves this is what I’m left to work with.