Having built a Facebook application that uses FB video I can understand where he's coming from. The Graph API is a great concept but like so many things Facebook, only halfway executed. It always amazed me that there are so many differences between a video in FQL and a video in the Graph API. In the end I figured out that "begin ... rescue ... end" was my friend when dealing with the Facebook apis. And about any call I make to the OpenGraph API is now wrapped in them.