If non-paying customers only get a 2 min snippet of a video, can my video length in sitemap.xml be the full length?

[nbyloff]

I am working on a website that all of its primary contents are videos. They have an assortment of free videos, but the majority or viewable only with a subscription to the site. If you don't have a subscription, you can see a 2 min video clip of the contents of the video. But all the videos can be anywhere from 10min to 1.5 hours. When I am auto-generating the sitemap.xml, can I put the full length of the videos for paying members in the XML in the video:duration property?

Or because publicly only 2 minutes is available (unless you pay for a membership) is that frowned upon?

[AdamThompson]

Based on the below two facts, I would put the snippet length for your videos in your sitemap:

1. Google can crawl the videos and may know that the actual length doesn't match what you are saying it does.

2. Google has a published policy for newspapers that have paywalls and don't allow free full access at http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/update-to-first-click-free.html Basically, "We will crawl, index and treat as "free" any preview pages - generally the headline and first few paragraphs of a story - that they make available to us. This means that our crawlers see the exact same content that will be shown for free to a user. Because the preview page is identical for both users and the crawlers, it's not cloaking."