[videoblogging] Questions: RSS, PSP, 3g, IP ...
I have a bunch of questions and thought I'd bundle them together, as they all centre around customising my RSS feed depending on the viewer's requirements. I'm using WordPress, but not the latest version 'cos I've made lots of tweaks and for the moment I'm happy with it. 1) Is it possible to have WordPress decide dynamically to send out a different version of the feed, according to what client the user has, eg iTunes, Ant? Stattraq tells me what client people use, but I don't know how this data is collected or how to use it. I imagine the above could be done by some sort of PHP script that would process the above info, then call and spit out the corresponding feed. Sadly I know nothing of PHP. As an example, I might want to send out a .mov file for anyone who's using iTunes or QuickTime, and a straight MPEG-4 file for all others. Or I might like to tailor the content of a video depending on the country of the viewer - is it possible to use their IP address to do this? 2) Are there any good directories out there for users of the PSP who are looking for podcasts, or free video content? I've found a bit of info about 'PSPcasting' but it seems pretty fragmented at the moment. 3) What about directories for 3g content (i.e. playable on 3g mobile phones)? Has anyone experimented with providing 3g versions? Did you get much of a response? How/where did you distribute? All the best everyone, Waz www.crashtestkitchen.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Questions: RSS, PSP, 3g, IP ...
Hello,On 5/7/06, wazman_au [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bunch of questions and thought I'd bundle them together, asthey all centre around customising my RSS feed depending on theviewer's requirements.I'm using WordPress, but not the latest version 'cos I've made lots of tweaks and for the moment I'm happy with it.1) Is it possible to have WordPress decide dynamically to send out adifferent version of the feed, according to what client the user has,eg iTunes, Ant? That depends on how much PHP knowledge you have. If you've you've got enough, you could just (re)write the feed component of Wordpress and get it to do whatever you want. Stattraq tells me what client people use, but I don'tknow how this data is collected or how to use it.Probably from the User-Agent HTTP header the client sends to the server. I imagine the abovecould be done by some sort of PHP script that would process the above info, then call and spit out the corresponding feed. Sadly I knownothing of PHP.Hmmm... then the answer is probably no. As an example, I might want to send out a .mov file for anyone who'susing iTunes or QuickTime, and a straight MPEG-4 file for all others.Or I might like to tailor the content of a video depending on thecountry of the viewer - is it possible to use their IP address to do this?Yes, you can tell what country a person comes from based on their IP address. (Well, most of the time anyways. Sometime many many people from different countries share the same gateway, which has one or a handlful of IP addresses.) Here's what I use alot: http://ip2nation.com/It's completely Free! And is formated for MySQL.(Of course, you got to do some PHP coding, or some other kind of coding to make use of it.) 2) Are there any good directories out there for users of the PSP whoare looking for podcasts, or free video content? I've found a bit of info about 'PSPcasting' but it seems pretty fragmented at the moment.video podcasting and PSPcasting are really the same thing. (It goes by many other names too!)However,... the thing to note is that iPod can only play M4V files; and PSP's can only play MP4 files. So,... basically you have to check each site to see what the publisher is producing. (Some produce only one of these. Some produce both. And some produce neither.)Just as a side note, you may want to consider producing Ogg Theora in addition to whatever else you are producing... http://maketelevision.com/log/why_ogg_theora_matters_for_internet_tv 3) What about directories for 3g content (i.e. playable on 3g mobilephones)? Has anyone experimented with providing 3g versions? Did youget much of a response? How/where did you distribute?To be honest, I'm not really sure what formats are commonly supported on phones right now. I believe there is a container format which (confusingly) goes by the name 3GPP. (Just for comparison, other container formats include Ogg, QuickTime, and Mastroska.)However, the more important question is what goes inside this 3GPP container format. I.e., what codec is being use? (That I don't know.)To be honest, I don't like the whole 3GPP thing. It's basically a replacement to the Internet where you have to pay for each and everything you do. You want to send a text message -- the equivalent of an e-mail -- you have to pay. You want to make a call, you have to pay. You want to watch a video, you have to pay. And don't even think about setting up the 3GPP equivalent of a website... or you'll really have to pay. Honestly, I want wireless phones that hook onto the Internet (and NOT the cellular, GSM, or 3GPP networks).See ya-- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.casupercanadian @ gmail.comdeveloper weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/___ Make Televisionhttp://maketelevision.com/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
remote video-blogging, near-live turnaround, Dahab bombinggs [ was Re: [videoblogging] Questions: RSS, PSP, 3g, IP ...
On May 7, 2006, at 10:24 AM, wazman_au wrote: I have a bunch of questions and thought I'd bundle them together, as they all centre around customising my RSS feed depending on the viewer's requirements. I'm using WordPress, but not the latest version 'cos I've made lots of tweaks and for the moment I'm happy with it. 1) Is it possible to have WordPress decide dynamically to send out a different version of the feed, according to what client the user has, eg iTunes, Ant? Stattraq tells me what client people use, but I don't know how this data is collected or how to use it. I imagine the above could be done by some sort of PHP script that would process the above info, then call and spit out the corresponding feed. Sadly I know nothing of PHP.I've been using Feedburner for iTunes RSS feeds, seems to work.. (check forums for discussion on issues bugs)I would also be interested in the above, an "adaptive model" for RSS feeds, depending on the "client".I just got my PSP 2 weeks ago, am transcoding my iPod videos to PSP:http://desertoutback.blogspot.com/Yeah, you read it right.. I video-blogged from Death Valley (middle of nowhere, no cellphone service or Internet) using mobile-satellite DSL. I coulda done a 15min turnaround ("near-live") of my desert canyon hikes w/hand-held video camera. Is anyone else doing this kinda thing: outback near-live?I demonstrated the 15 min turnaround time while at NAB convention in Las Vegas 2 weeks ago:http://nablasvegas.blogspot.comI parked myself in front of Treasure-Island "Sirens" show, shot video with a digital camera (they can do video clips), uploaded to the Web using my laptop (w/wireless card for Internet access). Boom, in 15 min , the show I had just seen was video-podcasted over my "NAB" video-podcast.Should I goto to this vlogger convention in early June, demonstrate this? Or, maybe I can be in the desert, have a "partner" at this vlogging convention demostratie/publicize this capability.This is getting close to the functionality of those live videophone things, CNN uses.This whole "citizen journalist" thing has really exploded with some of this remote-access technology.- Desktop Publishingallowed individuals to publish from their apartment room- Desktop Videoallowed individuals to edit/publish videos fro their apartment- Desktop Computer Animationallows individuals to produce/render animations from their apartment (3D Studio, Lightwave, Maya)- Desktop Video-podcastingdo it from their apartment (kinda like Rocketboom, except they have studio), or with me..from remote locations like Baja Mexico for Offroad Races:http://www.jumplive.com/baja1k05/index.htmlhttp://www.jumplive.com/laughlindc/index.htmlhttp://www.jumplive.com/parker425/index.htmlhttp://www.jumplive.com/sanfelipe250/index.htmlor from Egypt:http:/eclipsescience.blogspot.com[ scroll way down to 1st blog entry to see eclipse video ]I was at the March 29 solar eclipse on Libya/Egypt border:http://www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl06/secl06.htmlhttp://solareclipse.textamerica.com[ I even blogged from Frankfurt INt'l airport, with 2 other tech dudes (1 of them is moving to England, from Colorado), seehttp://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23127We were using a 30 min free Vodafone WiFi connection, I also signed up for a paid 24 hr WiFi connection over T-mobile. There were Internet Cafe all over Egypt, even in that small Sallum border town. http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4517509_ctgry=22897 ]http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com[ I even blogged from the Lufthansa 747 flight over Greenland! Boeing had DSL Internet hookup for $14, works nice ][ mobile-blogged my entire eclipse trip..I was in Dahab 4 weeks ago:http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23124http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?qs=xdefaultpage=1_ctgry=23124http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23123You probably heard about the terrorist bombings there 1.5 weeks ago (north of Sharm El-Sheikh, where politicians met to solve Middle East "issues"), I saw it on the news at NAB! I missed getting "blown up" by 4 weeks!http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/25/egypt.blasts/index.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4940506.stmSeveral restaurants, shops and a supermarket were destroyed in the main tourist street close to the seafront during one of the busiest times of the day.You can see my shots of the restaurants along the sea in my above blog, that's where I was hanging out with the cute Egyptian kids. I had breakfast there, took pictures of a cat (on my Sony P150 camera that was recovered). The CNN report talked about body parts being flung into the bay..you can see the pictures of the bay. Here's a pic of restaurants along the bay:http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?qs=xdefaultpage=1_ctgry=23124http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4541026_ctgry=23123http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4528571_ctgry=23123http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4528617_ctgry=23123I stayed at a hotel right along
Re: [videoblogging] Questions: RSS, PSP, 3g, IP ...
Sure you could create a php file to offer different version of the feed based on user agent. Just be sure to take into account that the user doesnt HAVE to send an agent string ... and if they do ... they dont HAVE to tell the truth. :-P IP to countries can be done as well, but its not always 100% accurate.On 5/7/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However,... the thing to note is that iPod can only play M4V files; and PSP's can only play MP4 files. Actually the iPod can play .MOVs and .MP4s so long as they are compressed correctly. My feed has .MOVs that play on the ipod.-- http://www.DavidMeade.comfeed:http://www.DavidMeade.com/feed SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: remote video-blogging, near-live turnaround, Dahab bombinggs [ was Re: [videoblogging] Questions: RSS, PSP, 3g, IP ...
On May 7, 2006, at 10:59 AM, B Yen wrote:On May 7, 2006, at 10:24 AM, wazman_au wrote:I have a bunch of questions and thought I'd bundle them together, as they all centre around customising my RSS feed depending on the viewer's requirements.I'm using WordPress, but not the latest version 'cos I've made lots of tweaks and for the moment I'm happy with it.1) Is it possible to have WordPress decide dynamically to send out a different version of the feed, according to what client the user has, eg iTunes, Ant? Stattraq tells me what client people use, but I don't know how this data is collected or how to use it. I imagine the above could be done by some sort of PHP script that would process the above info, then call and spit out the corresponding feed. Sadly I know nothing of PHP.I've been using Feedburner for iTunes RSS feeds, seems to work.. (check forums for discussion on issues bugs)I would also be interested in the above, an "adaptive model" for RSS feeds, depending on the "client".I just got my PSP 2 weeks ago, am transcoding my iPod videos to PSP:http://desertoutback.blogspot.com/Yeah, you read it right.. I video-blogged from Death Valley (middle of nowhere, no cellphone service or Internet) using mobile-satellite DSL. I coulda done a 15min turnaround ("near-live") of my desert canyon hikes w/hand-held video camera. Is anyone else doing this kinda thing: outback near-live?I demonstrated the 15 min turnaround time while at NAB convention in Las Vegas 2 weeks ago:http://nablasvegas.blogspot.comI parked myself in front of Treasure-Island "Sirens" show, shot video with a digital camera (they can do video clips), uploaded to the Web using my laptop (w/wireless card for Internet access). Boom, in 15 min , the show I had just seen was video-podcasted over my "NAB" video-podcast.Should I goto to this vlogger convention in early June, demonstrate this? Or, maybe I can be in the desert, have a "partner" at this vlogging convention demostratie/publicize this capability.This is getting close to the functionality of those live videophone things, CNN uses.This whole "citizen journalist" thing has really exploded with some of this remote-access technology.- Desktop Publishingallowed individuals to publish from their apartment room- Desktop Videoallowed individuals to edit/publish videos fro their apartment- Desktop Computer Animationallows individuals to produce/render animations from their apartment (3D Studio, Lightwave, Maya)- Desktop Video-podcastingdo it from their apartment (kinda like Rocketboom, except they have studio), or with me..from remote locations like Baja Mexico for Offroad Races:http://www.jumplive.com/baja1k05/index.htmlhttp://www.jumplive.com/laughlindc/index.htmlhttp://www.jumplive.com/parker425/index.htmlhttp://www.jumplive.com/sanfelipe250/index.htmlor from Egypt:http:/eclipsescience.blogspot.com[ scroll way down to 1st blog entry to see eclipse video ]I was at the March 29 solar eclipse on Libya/Egypt border:http://www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl06/secl06.htmlhttp://solareclipse.textamerica.com[ I even blogged from Frankfurt INt'l airport, with 2 other tech dudes (1 of them is moving to England, from Colorado), seehttp://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23127We were using a 30 min free Vodafone WiFi connection, I also signed up for a paid 24 hr WiFi connection over T-mobile. There were Internet Cafe all over Egypt, even in that small Sallum border town. http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4517509_ctgry=22897 ]http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com[ I even blogged from the Lufthansa 747 flight over Greenland! Boeing had DSL Internet hookup for $14, works nice ][ mobile-blogged my entire eclipse trip..I was in Dahab 4 weeks ago:http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23124http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?qs=xdefaultpage=1_ctgry=23124http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23123You probably heard about the terrorist bombings there 1.5 weeks ago (north of Sharm El-Sheikh, where politicians met to solve Middle East "issues"), I saw it on the news at NAB! I missed getting "blown up" by 4 weeks!http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/25/egypt.blasts/index.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4940506.stmSeveral restaurants, shops and a supermarket were destroyed in the main tourist street close to the seafront during one of the busiest times of the day.You can see my shots of the restaurants along the sea in my above blog, that's where I was hanging out with the cute Egyptian kids. I had breakfast there, took pictures of a cat (on my Sony P150 camera that was recovered). The CNN report talked about body parts being flung into the bay..you can see the pictures of the bay. Here's a pic of restaurants along the bay:http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?qs=xdefaultpage=1_ctgry=23124http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4541026_ctgry=23123http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4528571_ctgry=23123http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4528617_ctgry=23123I
