User blog comment:Sarah Manley/ Product Update - Video/@comment-188432-20120319214512/@comment-1613840-20120319230823

I asked the technical team a bit more (and shared your idea with them). The video namespace was built a while back as a hack and had a lot of limitations. The file namespace on the other hand has a lot of logic behind it, and we felt that the videos could really benefit from having this logic. So the decision was made to do it in this way so we could simplify the current code and set the stage for more features in the future. In essence it was easier to move videos to the place where they should be from the very beginning, instead of forking the backend logic. This has been a big project with many considerations, and we know that we want to make more improvements in the future, so as I said, let me know further requests (the filtering is definitely a top one).