Glad to see the question. Glad to here people using democracy and blip together.
more comments below.
On 3/29/07, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not a bad question--one of the purposes of this list is for newbie
> questions.
>
> Actually I think the premise of your question is slightly off. Blip
> doesn't "use" the Democracy Player, you use the Democracy Player to
> get Blip.tv content. You can also use other aggregators like FireAnt
> and iTunes to get Blip.tv content. If you subscribe to a Blip feed
> directly in iTunes and configure ipod to automatically sync podcasts
> then your Blip.tv content will make it to your ipod as podcasts.
>
> I should also point out that this only works when the original
> content is in an ipod compatible format. Blip.tv doesn't require all
> their users to submit or publish iPod compatible files so not
> everything from blip will necessarily work on your ipod.
I'd like to add that iTunes cannot convert all videos to an ipod
compatible format also. It will not play or convert WMV's or SWF's
which are two of the most common formats.
THat said... wmv's are statistically pretty rare among videoblogs.
Just how rare I don't know... and even rarer perhaps among blip users.
Flash is also pretty oncommon in subscription feeds too depending on
how advanced you are and where you look. For example... I doubt there
are even a handful of feeds coming from blip that have a Flash as the
default video format coming from RSS, and if you look in the iTunes
podcasting directory you'll certainly find none. This is because flash
is usualy used only for web based playback and is not easily
downloadable and syndicateable, especially to 3rd party hardware.
On the other hand the biggest video site on the web, Youtube ONLY
offers Flash in their feeds. Both Mefeedia and Democracy do support
flash and I can't speak for democracy, but on Mefeedia the probability
of finding video feeds that are using flash is increasingly pretty
rapidly, while WMV's and all other non-Quicktime/non-iTunes/non-iPod
compatible formats are on the decrease.
In fact... "just what formats are vloggers using?" is a great question
for Frank Sinton over at mefeedia.com. I can think of noone else who
can dig up such info as to the state of the video blogging space.
Perhaps he'll read this and do a little reasearch, take a slice of all
the last months activity and let us here know what percentage of what
videoblogs and podcasts were in what format. I think MANY here would
really like to know.
All this is to say. Gromik, welcome to the videoblogging group...
great question... I hope you like democracy and blip... and if you
have any videos that iTunes won't convert to an iPod compatible format
on the fly or any trouble whatsoever let us know. We're definitely
interested.
Also... one last thing... Not that there could be anything better then
Democracy --> iTunes --> iPod... for watching vlogs on your iPod.
But does anyone else have any solutions that might cover 100% of the
video formats and work simpler for vlog aggregation and watching on
your ipod?
I assume you're on mac right Gromik? While it's a superb competitor
to Democracy I don't think the mac version of Fireant.tv has
transcoding either.
Also... Can anyone verify wether you have to have Quicktime Pro or not
in order for iTunes to automatically convert video formats to an ipod
compatible format?
-Mike
mefeedia.com
mmeiser.com/blog
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> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gromik Tohoku
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Blip.tv uses democracy player as a distribution for
> > videoblog films.
> >
> > I was wondering once I download a movie via democracy
> > player, can I upload it on my iPod?
> >
> > sorry this is a really newbie question.
> >
> > Thanks for providing an answer,
> > sincerely
> > Nicolas
> >
> >
> > Gromik Nicolas
> > Tohoku University
> > Sendai, Japan
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