Media & Text block: allow video embed in addition to photo

[bradhogan]

What problem does this address?

Currently, the "media & text" block only allows images to be placed in the "media" column.

What is your proposed solution?

The "media" should include all media (i.e. video such as Vimeo or Youtube embed options).

[coreyworrell]

It would be awesome to also allow any embeddable URL, and any arbitrary URL that would then just be loaded in an iframe (Google map, etc).

[skorasaurus]

In absence of this, as a workaround: you could create a pattern that uses the row block with the first inner block of embed and the 2nd inner block would be a group block; and within the group block, you could add what you would like.
https://gutenberg.10up.com/reference/Blocks/block-patterns/ has some information to explain how to create block patterns.

[T4ngml]

I really miss this! In the meantime, I can only display videos and text in 2 separate columns, which is not, which maintains the text in a narrow column.
That's not ideal for readability, and prevents adding some more content cleanly, on every viewport.