http://www.sesamevault.com/sesameseeds/about
This could be a great resource for us:
“The SesameVault API lets you easily integrate online video into your web or desktop applications. The API’s core functionality includes video uploading, encoding, tagging, filtering, and reporting. Although our API is platform independent, we offer a convenient API library (available in PHP, Ruby and Javascript) to help you make quick work out of any project.” – http://www.sesamevault.com/developer
Supports API formats JSON, XML, and YAML as well as API libraries such as PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript. However, there is a service fee (package plans) so not quite sure how open that is. Still, interesting.