Re: [videoblogging] Help!! need some help with drupal and dreamhost
Hi Milt Stan's info is correct if you are using ftp to upload media to your own site, but I suspect you (or users) want to actually upload via a web form (e.g., upload and attach a video directly to a post in drupal or wordpress). I have some Drupal sites on Dreamhost. I always like to increase my limits for uploads. Turns out that there are at least three php variable settings that effect any LAMP based content management system like this. More on this below. Usually, it is pretty easy to set those variable to allow larger uploads, but Dreamhost makes you stand on your head. Here are some instructions. I have not tried them. Fact is it's easier to move to better hosting. http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/1507/ On a good hosting platform, you can easily change these settings to suit your needs, but Dreamhost limits you (understandable when you consider how many peeps are on a single server). You can request higher limits, but they will probably want to talk you into a more expensive hosting plan. I am in the process of moving off of dreamhost for several reasons. All my reasons are performance, control and access based. Dreamhost has been inexpensive and a good service overall, but performance is too slow for any serious production work using database-heavy tools like Drupal. Dreamhost is also several hundred times slower than a number of competitively priced VPS services such as SliceHost. The other day, I noticed that there were over 900 separate users sharing the Dreamhost server I am on. Of course, dreamhost will be happy to sell you their VPS service too, but it costs more than others and still limits you to a greater degree than other host. Be aware (beware?) that places like slicehost give you a lot more control and, with that, a lot more responsibility to figure things out. In this case, it may not matter since dreamhost makes you jump through hoops anyway. I like that slicehost has an active forum and irc community to help out with these things. One more thing: drupal also has an active support forum and irc channel at #drupal-support. while there are a few folks here that may be able to help, there are a ton of us over in the drupal groups, forums and irc channels. jump on in! :) Markus On Mar 18, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Milt Lee wrote: Hi folks - does anybody here use Dreamhost, AND have a drupal site there? I really need some help with an issue I'm having. Dreamhost has limit of 7mb for uploads. I find this strange since if you have a wordpress blog on dreamhost, you can upload any size that you want, but it's probably because I'm not a coder, so it's all Greek to me. Anyway - has anybody here gone through the process of changing the max-upload? And yes, I have read all the stuff on the forum (there's a page that explains it all) but I'm just not a coder. Thanks everybody! I really appreciate it. Milt [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help!! need some help with drupal and dreamhost
Hi folks - does anybody here use Dreamhost, AND have a drupal site there? I really need some help with an issue I'm having. Dreamhost has limit of 7mb for uploads. I find this strange since if you have a wordpress blog on dreamhost, you can upload any size that you want, but it's probably because I'm not a coder, so it's all Greek to me. Anyway - has anybody here gone through the process of changing the max-upload? And yes, I have read all the stuff on the forum (there's a page that explains it all) but I'm just not a coder. Thanks everybody! I really appreciate it. Milt
[videoblogging] Help! I'm Blogged Out.
I have an account with blogger. Indeed, that's the sight of my videoblog. Today I could not access it. Blogger would not accept me. I used my standard information which I have written down. I sort of could reset, but that resetting ignors my ongoing, working videoblog. It's a new start with nothing there. It seems my attempts to reach my videoblog complicate things further and create more obstacles. Is there anyway I can fix this and reconnect with my videoblog?
Re: [videoblogging] Help! I'm Blogged Out.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, paulvideoprez paulvideop...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an account with blogger. Indeed, that's the sight of my videoblog. Today I could not access it. Blogger would not accept me. I used my standard information which I have written down. I sort of could reset, but that resetting ignors my ongoing, working videoblog. It's a new start with nothing there. Hey Paul-- I'll be glad to help you with your issue offlist. Sometimes Blogger has issues. We'll get you squared away. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Help getting hyperlink in QT .mov in separate browser window
Finally learned how to create a hyperlink of my Credits in a QuickTime movie,
by using this
html code sequence:
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Makeup by Richard Calcasola at
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}click here:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com}Maxium{endhref}
[00:00:08.000]
But, cannot figure out how to get that link to open in a separate browser
window when
clicked on while viewing the movie. The code a target=_blank should work if
I knew
where it should appear. Regardless of where I enter it in the html string it
does not operate
as it should.
Any help is appreciated.
Michael
Re: [videoblogging] Help getting hyperlink in QT .mov in separate browser window
Enclose the URL with and and then add a space and T_blank
before the curly bracket.
Thus:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com T_blank }Maxium{endHREF}
Any reason the printed name Maxium is different from MaximusSpaSalon?
Not a typo?
There's a different - and often more elegant - way to add clickable
links in Quicktime movies, if you have Adobe GoLive - or even Adobe
Photoshop. You can create clickable invisible hotspots in the
Sprite Track which can sit invisibly over Logos or Text in your
movie, thus making those graphics clickable but without a great big
blue text link appearing in your nice Quicktime movie.
Also, you can use the Sprite track to make the whole frame of the
movie clickable between certain time periods.
Rupert
http://twittervlog.tv
On 24-Oct-08, at 5:25 AM, Bookmarts wrote:
Finally learned how to create a hyperlink of my Credits in a
QuickTime movie, by using this
html code sequence:
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Makeup by Richard Calcasola at
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}click here:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com}Maxium{endhref}
[00:00:08.000]
But, cannot figure out how to get that link to open in a separate
browser window when
clicked on while viewing the movie. The code a target=_blank
should work if I knew
where it should appear. Regardless of where I enter it in the html
string it does not operate
as it should.
Any help is appreciated.
Michael
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help getting hyperlink in QT .mov in separate browser window
hi Michael
QT text tracks:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/texttracks.html
QT HREF tracks:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html
however if you just want one bit of text with one link you can
probably do this much more easily with the demo version of eZedia QTi:
http://www.ezedia.com/products/eZediaQTI/
On 24/10/2008, at 11:25 PM, Bookmarts wrote:
Finally learned how to create a hyperlink of my Credits in a
QuickTime movie, by using this
html code sequence:
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}Makeup by Richard Calcasola at
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}click here:
{href:http://www.maximusspasalon.com}Maxium{endhref}
[00:00:08.000]
But, cannot figure out how to get that link to open in a separate
browser window when
clicked on while viewing the movie. The code a target=_blank
should work if I knew
where it should appear. Regardless of where I enter it in the html
string it does not operate
as it should.
Any help is appreciated.
cheers
Adrian Miles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bachelor communication honours coordinator
vogmae.net.au
Re: [videoblogging] Help me make History Hacker into a real TV show and not just a TV pilot
Brilliant! Great idea, great trailer - I wish I had a TV to watch it. I'll support you in other ways. Your YouTube URL was borked because it had a period at the end of it. Here's the link to the High Quality version (you just add fmt=18 to the end of the URL to link to a HQ version of a YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5DWyVrvlYfmt=18 Go watch, people Good luck with this. It made me think of the post Bill Cammack linked to here last week - a discussion of Quality professionalism in online video versus regular TV film. Good work, Bre Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 21-Sep-08, at 10:00 PM, pettisb wrote: Hey Videoblogging Peeps, I'm not on here a lot, but I check in from time to time as a lurker. I've had a videoblog for a while. I started off being a life blogger with a few other folks back in the day and then I went pro and did video for Make: Magazine and now Etsy. Now I've got a pilot that might make it into a tv show. It's a little weird for me since I feel like the internet is way more my home than 1 way broadcasting. So I've got a few things planned to integrate the show with the internet that I explain in this post, I'll be checking in a few times over the next week and I'll do what I can to answer them. What follows is what I'm sending out to folks I know and I wanted to send it out to you all too! My TV show pilot called History Hacker airs this Friday September 26th at 8PM and Midnight on the History Channel. I'm the host of the show and I check out inventors in history and take a hands-on look at their inventions and then break it on down and hack the inventions together. I need your help to make the show go from a pilot to a real TV show. The pilot is all about Nikola Tesla and the war of the currents between Tesla and Edison. In the show I learn how to blow a neon tube, explore wireless electricity and build an AC generator from a bike. I also go to Boston to visit an MIT space lab to see how the principles that Tesla pioneered are being applied to space propulsion. The look of the show is awesome. The folks at History gave the producer, director, and director of photography permission to take my DIY style of making videos with lots of jump cuts and direct talking to the camera and push it forward into a longer format. It doesn't look like anything else on TV. There are four things you can do to help make the pilot a TV show. 1. Tell people. 2. Please tune in on a Tivo if you've got one to help boost Nielsen ratings. On Tivos it's actually labeled as Hacking History http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detailepisodeId=365730 3. Once you've seen the show, send a feedback email telling the folks at History what you think. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Also after the show has aired, please drop a note with what you think of the show in the History Forums at http://boards.historychannel.com/topic/History-Now/New-Pilot-This/ 520012982 You can also participate on Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and stay tuned to my Blog Facebook: If you enjoy the show and want to participate more I've set up a facebook group that anyone can join at http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25165214526. Flickr: I'm also really curious about the people watching my show so i set up a flickr group. Please take a picture of yourself watching the show and upload it to the group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/historyhacker/. It will be really cool to see who's watching the show! Youtube: I've posted a teaser on youtube that gives you a feel for what the show will look like. Go check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5DWyVrvlY. I'll have at least one more teaser coming out soon on my youtube channel. You can click the yellow subscribe button to see them before anyone else. http://youtube.com/brepettis. Blip: I've also got these on Blip.tv which is what plays on my main page at http://brepettis.com and bre.blip.tv My Blog: I'm writing about the experience of starting up History Hacker and posting behind the scenes material at http://brepettis.com/blog. I'm actually going to put the content of this email on my blog too at http://brepettis.com/blog/2008/09/21/help-turn-the-history-hacker- pilot-into-a-tv-show/. Thanks for your support! I can't wait to see it on Television and I hope you get a chance to tune in and help me make this pilot into a TV show! Bre Pettis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help me make History Hacker into a real TV show and not just a TV pilot
Hey Videoblogging Peeps, I'm not on here a lot, but I check in from time to time as a lurker. I've had a videoblog for a while. I started off being a life blogger with a few other folks back in the day and then I went pro and did video for Make: Magazine and now Etsy. Now I've got a pilot that might make it into a tv show. It's a little weird for me since I feel like the internet is way more my home than 1 way broadcasting. So I've got a few things planned to integrate the show with the internet that I explain in this post, I'll be checking in a few times over the next week and I'll do what I can to answer them. What follows is what I'm sending out to folks I know and I wanted to send it out to you all too! My TV show pilot called History Hacker airs this Friday September 26th at 8PM and Midnight on the History Channel. I'm the host of the show and I check out inventors in history and take a hands-on look at their inventions and then break it on down and hack the inventions together. I need your help to make the show go from a pilot to a real TV show. The pilot is all about Nikola Tesla and the war of the currents between Tesla and Edison. In the show I learn how to blow a neon tube, explore wireless electricity and build an AC generator from a bike. I also go to Boston to visit an MIT space lab to see how the principles that Tesla pioneered are being applied to space propulsion. The look of the show is awesome. The folks at History gave the producer, director, and director of photography permission to take my DIY style of making videos with lots of jump cuts and direct talking to the camera and push it forward into a longer format. It doesn't look like anything else on TV. There are four things you can do to help make the pilot a TV show. 1. Tell people. 2. Please tune in on a Tivo if you've got one to help boost Nielsen ratings. On Tivos it's actually labeled as Hacking History http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detailepisodeId=365730 3. Once you've seen the show, send a feedback email telling the folks at History what you think. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Also after the show has aired, please drop a note with what you think of the show in the History Forums at http://boards.historychannel.com/topic/History-Now/New-Pilot-This/520012982 You can also participate on Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and stay tuned to my Blog Facebook: If you enjoy the show and want to participate more I've set up a facebook group that anyone can join at http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25165214526. Flickr: I'm also really curious about the people watching my show so i set up a flickr group. Please take a picture of yourself watching the show and upload it to the group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/historyhacker/. It will be really cool to see who's watching the show! Youtube: I've posted a teaser on youtube that gives you a feel for what the show will look like. Go check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5DWyVrvlY. I'll have at least one more teaser coming out soon on my youtube channel. You can click the yellow subscribe button to see them before anyone else. http://youtube.com/brepettis. Blip: I've also got these on Blip.tv which is what plays on my main page at http://brepettis.com and bre.blip.tv My Blog: I'm writing about the experience of starting up History Hacker and posting behind the scenes material at http://brepettis.com/blog. I'm actually going to put the content of this email on my blog too at http://brepettis.com/blog/2008/09/21/help-turn-the-history-hacker-pilot-into-a-tv-show/. Thanks for your support! I can't wait to see it on Television and I hope you get a chance to tune in and help me make this pilot into a TV show! Bre Pettis
[videoblogging] help with streched letterboxed video?
At work today one of our shows was delivered but the video is distorted. They did send it as 640x480, but it's letterboxed and the video *within* that is streched (too wide--like how video looks with square pixels at 720x480). Almost a double-letterboxing effect. I need to figure out what they did wrong to produce this (using FCP) so I can tell them how to export it correctly. Unfortunately I don't know what it was shot in, but I think it was on a pd 150. I'm kind of at a loss and would appreciate any help. If you think you might know I can send you a screen grab privately. Thanks! -- Lauren Galanter www.laurengalanter.com www.linkedin.com/in/laureng Skype: lgalanter 610-761-4435 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help on starting a UTube contest
I want to start a UTube contest for a tourism bureau I work with. I want to get locals to create short Ytube clips and post them in our Youtube directory. Any ideas on how I could get locals involved and how to do this? Cheers, Mark
Re: [videoblogging] Help on starting a UTube contest
I want to start a UTube contest for a tourism bureau I work with. I want to get locals to create short Ytube clips and post them in our Youtube directory. Any ideas on how I could get locals involved and how to do this? Make a webpage with a clear set of expectations. post some example videos. connect with people who you think would want to make videos. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] help out Video Volunteers and Channel 19
back when i was in india, i stumbled across Video Volunteers. this past week, they launched channel 19 (www.ch19.org - a site dedicated to community video units, aka citizen journalism). well, now they sent me this email looking for support and i just wanted to spread the word. cheers noel -- Dear Friends, Video Volunteers has been selected to participate in America's Giving Challenge,' a novel online fundraising competition sponsored by 'Global Giving' and Parade Magazine, the best-selling Magazine in The US. In the competition, the top four organizations that receive the most contributions by Jan 31st--NOT BY AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTION BUT BY NUMBERS OF CONTRIBUTORS--will receive $50,000 grants. Video Volunteers has already received over 115 online donations, and are one of the leaders in the competition, out of 400 organizations. We have a real chance of winning, which is why we're asking for your support today. Please take a moment and click on the link below and give $10 (or more.) The page that opens will explain clearly how to enter your credit or debit card info. http://givingchallenge.globalgiving.com/dy/registry/ag.html?cmd=prevfundregid=835 About our work: Video Volunteers and our partners have launched a series of 'Community Video Units' across India, in which community members produce and screen films full-time to thousands of people a month, to empower, educate, inspire and inform local people. See www.videovolunteers.org for more information, and watch Channel 19 (www.ch19.org), a new 'online channel' that showcases the films made by communities and the impact they are making. Please also spread the word to others who are interested in the use of media to accelerate change. Global Giving will also provide a matching grant of $1000 to the organization that gets the most donations in the next 24 hours, so please donate today. To make your safe and secure online donation, click here: http://givingchallenge.globalgiving.com/dy/registry/ag.html?cmd=prevfundregid=835 With many, many thanks in advance, Jessica and Stalin Jessica Mayberry and Stalin K. Video Volunteers www.videovolunteers.org, www.ch19.org Newsletter produced by Video Volunteers C/O Temin and Co., 750 Lex Ave., 26th Fl. New York, NY 10022 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [videoblogging] Help a novice out: Five questions for Videoblogging List
I'm about to start video blogging and I have a couple questions that I think more experienced videobloggers might be able to answer. Best online for learning DIY video shooting and editing? Video blogging? Best book for learning DIY video shooting and editing? Video blogging? Best online video hosting platform(s)? Favorite video blog beside your own? And shameless self-promotion, where do you videoblog? Clearly, you only have to answer as many questions as you want. I will post the answers in some form on my blog. Anybody game? you should also skim this group's wiki for some of the basic info: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/ As Gena said, the Pixelodeon 2007 archive might be a good place to sample videos: http://pixelodeon.mefeedia.com/ Many of us are playingint his group video project: http://semanal.org Post one video a week for 2008. This would be a good place to meet people. post any specific questions you come across as you make video. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Help a novice out: Five questions for Videoblogging List
I'm about to start video blogging and I have a couple questions that I think more experienced videobloggers might be able to answer. Best online for learning DIY video shooting and editing? Video blogging? Best book for learning DIY video shooting and editing? Video blogging? Best online video hosting platform(s)? Favorite video blog beside your own? And shameless self-promotion, where do you videoblog? Clearly, you only have to answer as many questions as you want. I will post the answers in some form on my blog. Anybody game? Take care and happy videoblogging, Nathan Ketsdever compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
[videoblogging] Help
I posted a film that I made on the writer J.G.Ballard in 1983 here: http://ommane.blogspot.com/ The video file is hosted on blip.tv were it runs fine. When I click on the image on my new blog it doesn't go through to blip but launches Windows Media Player were it runs very small and without sound. One of my friends says that when they click on it it goes through to blip and runs fine. It should be running inline in the blog. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? -Sam
Re: [videoblogging] Help
Plays fine with sound from both locations, but I'm using flip4mac on a macbook pro, so that might have something to do with it. Flip4mac allows wmv files to play in Quicktime. Tried to download the file to have a look at its guts, but it crashed Firefox :( Try posting the file with blip's copy and past inline player and see how that goes for you. Report back :) Jan On Dec 24, 2007 11:12 AM, s_scoggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted a film that I made on the writer J.G.Ballard in 1983 here: http://ommane.blogspot.com/ The video file is hosted on blip.tv were it runs fine. When I click on the image on my new blog it doesn't go through to blip but launches Windows Media Player were it runs very small and without sound. One of my friends says that when they click on it it goes through to blip and runs fine. It should be running inline in the blog. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? -Sam Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin
Re: [videoblogging] Help
I posted a film that I made on the writer J.G.Ballard in 1983 here: http://ommane.blogspot.com/ The video file is hosted on blip.tv were it runs fine. When I click on the image on my new blog it doesn't go through to blip but launches Windows Media Player were it runs very small and without sound. One of my friends says that when they click on it it goes through to blip and runs fine. It should be running inline in the blog. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? as Jan said, WMV will not play emdedded (that I know of). It would probably be best to use the Flash version that blip makes for you. they give you embed code that you can copy and paste into your Blogger post. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
Re: [videoblogging] HELP: iTunes displaying wrong title
were you able to get this resolved? On 10/26/07, wazman_au [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For our last couple of posts I'm seeing a weird problem in iTunes. Instead of using the title of the episode that's contained in the RSS feed that our vlog spits out, iTunes is using the title of the original QuickTime file that I saved on my computer. Here's our iTunes URL: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast? id=73831930s=1434\44 and here's our feed URL: http://www.crashtestkitchen.com/wp-rss2.php For example, our latest post should have the title Trifle Part 1: The Spongeblob Redemption, but instead it's trifle part 1, which is the name of the original QuickTime file that I uploaded to Blip (it's not even the name that Blip gave the file after processing it). Anyone know why this might be happening? Waz from Crash Test Kitchen http://www.crashtestkitchen.com -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] HELP: iTunes displaying wrong title
For our last couple of posts I'm seeing a weird problem in iTunes. Instead of using the title of the episode that's contained in the RSS feed that our vlog spits out, iTunes is using the title of the original QuickTime file that I saved on my computer. Here's our iTunes URL: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast? id=73831930s=1434\44 and here's our feed URL: http://www.crashtestkitchen.com/wp-rss2.php For example, our latest post should have the title Trifle Part 1: The Spongeblob Redemption, but instead it's trifle part 1, which is the name of the original QuickTime file that I uploaded to Blip (it's not even the name that Blip gave the file after processing it). Anyone know why this might be happening? Waz from Crash Test Kitchen http://www.crashtestkitchen.com
Re: [videoblogging] help needed
I have it somewhere ... But you should be able to find it at archive.org in the Prelinger Archives. On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 9:14 am, Heath wrote: Do you remember those old film leader that would have the 3,2,1 countdown? does anyone have that as an avi or .mov file? Or does anyone know where I can get one? Thanks Heath http://batmangeek.com Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://whatthecast.com - http://www.3chip.com
RE: [videoblogging] help needed
HYPERLINK http://www.archive.org/details/BLACKandWHITE_countdown_leaderhttp://www.ar chive.org/details/BLACKandWHITE_countdown_leader HYPERLINK http://www.archive.org/details/Countdow1960http://www.archive.org/details/ Countdow1960 _ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heath Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:11 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] help needed Do you remember those old film leader that would have the 3,2,1 countdown? does anyone have that as an avi or .mov file? Or does anyone know where I can get one? Thanks Heath HYPERLINK http://batmangeek.comhttp://batmangeek.-com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.1/1051 - Release Date: 10/5/2007 12:27 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.1/1051 - Release Date: 10/5/2007 12:27 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help! I Need to Rename My Video Blog!
Hey everyone, Recently, I got an email from a fine gentleman out in Chicago notifying me that he's been doing an audio podcast by the name of Cheap Date (http://www.4thtimearound.net/) - a name he trademarked officially - for the last two years. Alas! Cheap Dates needs a new name! If inspiration strikes, and you're feeling generous, send along some fun suggestions. Audrey and I would be more than grateful. Peace, love and happiness. Mark* http://cheapdatesphilly.blogspot.com http://thepovertyjetset.com
[videoblogging] Help me spread video blogging in Cambodia for $23!
Hi folks, Taking my inspiration for the work that Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson are doing right now in Cambodia and Southeast Asia, I'm need 30 people to donate $23 to help get me and three video blogging kits to Cambodia by the end of the month. (along with suitcases of donated t-shirts) You can read the details here: http://cambodiabloggingsummit.wikispaces.com/ - Consider making a donation of $23 - Blog about this campaign and repost the fundraising badge on your blog - Forward the url to your colleagues and friends and ask them to contribute or repost. - Have some new t-shirts from a tech or nonprofit tech organization? I'd love to pack them in my suitcasehttp://cambodiabloggingsummit.wikispaces.com/Suitcase+Project ! - Digg ithttp://digg.com/tech_deals/Cambodia_Bloggers_Summit_Campaignnotice that Virak, one of the Cambodian Bloggers, set this up - Follow the links to the Cambodian Bloggers on this side bar or on the Summit http://cloggersummit.wikispaces.com/ page, drop a comment encouraging them! No money, no T-shirts? I'll be posting in a bit for some advice/feedback on instructional materials I'm prepping. Thank you everyone! -- Beth Kanter Social Media and Nonprofits: Trainer, Coach, and Consultant Beth's Blog: http://beth.typepad.com Beth's Wiki: http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help with: Inconsistent Audio Sample Rate
I'm also having this issue -- I think it was due to the recent QuickTime update. I'll post again if I'm able to completely resolve! On 7/21/07, Bookmarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow videobloggers: Every week for more than a year I have created about a five minute video of a poet reading his or her poetry. Each week the video is exported from iMovie into .mov, .wmv and .m4v formats. This week when I attempted to export the latest video into the .wmv format I get the alert message, Inconsistent Audio Sample Rate. The media you are exporting contains audio with multiple sample rates. The video will compress (export) properly to .mov and .m4v, but not to .wmv. I have tried exporting from iMovie, Final Cut Express HD, and QuickTime and the same message and failure occurs. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Michael www.poetryvlog.com
[videoblogging] Help: Delete pics off Xacti from Mac?
Hey folks, As some of you might have read, I switched to a Mac a couple weeks back. First off, and sorry Heath, but... I Love the Mac! When I have the Xacti hooked to the Mac and I delete the pictures, they go poof, gone. But did they? When I look at that Xacti through the Mac to the SD card in the Xacti, it is empty. But when I use the camera, all the video is still there. How do I delete (real delete, erase, gone from the memory card, poof, no more, gonzo.)videos on my Xacti USB camera, through the Mac? Thanks, Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net
Re: [videoblogging] Help: Delete pics off Xacti from Mac?
Hey Mike, Almost certainly... but not certainly... you need to empty the trash can on the Mac dock after deleting the files. Give that a go. Rupert On 9 Jul 2007, at 23:09, Mike Moon wrote: Hey folks, As some of you might have read, I switched to a Mac a couple weeks back. First off, and sorry Heath, but... I Love the Mac! When I have the Xacti hooked to the Mac and I delete the pictures, they go poof, gone. But did they? When I look at that Xacti through the Mac to the SD card in the Xacti, it is empty. But when I use the camera, all the video is still there. How do I delete (real delete, erase, gone from the memory card, poof, no more, gonzo.)videos on my Xacti USB camera, through the Mac? Thanks, Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help: Delete pics off Xacti from Mac?
Be very careful with transferring to the Mac and then deleting files on the Xacti. I burned myself a few years ago by believing I had transferred everything to my Mac, and then doing a Delete All on the Xacti itself. I haven't used the Xacti for about a year, but if I recall correctly, I used the PictBridge function which only transferred JPEG images and not videos. When I did a Delete All on the camera it deleted photos and videos, so I lost my latest batch of videos. You may be seeing a similar issue. Are you using PictBridge (or whatever it's called)? I can't offer much help since my Xacti has died and I've forgotten the details, maybe someone more experienced with the Xacti can rephrase my warning a little more accurately. I found that by using the USB Disk option, iPhoto could be used to import photos and videos. I wish I could be more sure what the gotcha was, but please be careful. -- Sean Mike Moon wrote: Hey folks, As some of you might have read, I switched to a Mac a couple weeks back. First off, and sorry Heath, but... I Love the Mac! When I have the Xacti hooked to the Mac and I delete the pictures, they go poof, gone. But did they? When I look at that Xacti through the Mac to the SD card in the Xacti, it is empty. But when I use the camera, all the video is still there. How do I delete (real delete, erase, gone from the memory card, poof, no more, gonzo.)videos on my Xacti USB camera, through the Mac? Thanks, Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Help: Delete pics off Xacti from Mac?
When I have the Xacti hooked to the Mac and I delete the pictures, they go poof, gone. But did they? When I look at that Xacti through the Mac to the SD card in the Xacti, it is empty. But when I use the camera, all the video is still there. How do I delete (real delete, erase, gone from the memory card, poof, no more, gonzo.)videos on my Xacti USB camera, through the Mac? Im not sure I follow how youre doing it, but here's how I do it. Plug in the Xacti. It shows up on my desktop as an external hard drive. I simply drag the videos/photos I want into a new folder on my desktopeverything is now copied. Now I drag all the media in the Xacti drive to my trash...and empty the trash...removing all media from the SD card. Or I can unplug the Xacti camera from the computer...and delete all the media on the SD card through the Xacti menu. Jay -- Here I am http://jaydedman.com Check out the latest project: http://politicalvideo.org 500 hours of George Bush speeches Search, download, use
Re: [videoblogging] Help: Delete pics off Xacti from Mac?
Hey Mike, If I recall, it is recommended not to delete from computer as it does not really free up space on card. I always delete from the camera AFTER being certain that I have copied everything over. Don't trust iPhoto or other apps to grab ALL your files, I have seen it miss a few. I just use finder and drag over all the files from C5, eject and then use delete all on the camera. Markus On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Mike Moon wrote: Hey folks, As some of you might have read, I switched to a Mac a couple weeks back. First off, and sorry Heath, but... I Love the Mac! When I have the Xacti hooked to the Mac and I delete the pictures, they go poof, gone. But did they? When I look at that Xacti through the Mac to the SD card in the Xacti, it is empty. But when I use the camera, all the video is still there. How do I delete (real delete, erase, gone from the memory card, poof, no more, gonzo.)videos on my Xacti USB camera, through the Mac? Thanks, -- http://tools.ourmedia.org/blog http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help with Premiere
Hello! I'm looking for anyone with any experience using Premiere Elements. I have a sort of complicated problem that needs solving asap. I used to use a Canon SD400 digital still camera that I imported AVIs on to my computer with. All the files are stored on one external disk. I have been working on a project in Premiere with all this footage for a few months now. I just got a new camera, that uses mini-DVDs. In order to read the DVD-RAM disc, I had to install a special driver. I still had some problems because the files were IFO files. I downloaded some freeware and some more codecs, trying to be able to use these files. Meanwhile, I'm use my old camera and when I got to take my AVIs off of the card, I notice I have no thumbnails. When I open the file, it plays, with no video image. Same in Premiere. When I open up this old project I was working on, all of my AVIs are without video... in the timeline and also on my harddrive. I removed all my video-type programs, except Premiere, including all the drivers and DivX and Xvid. Then I could see all of my files when I viewed them straight off of my hard disk but I couldn't see them in my timeline. I don't want to revert and I don't want to delete Premiere. I want to do something like refresh all of my clips that are placed in the timeline but can't figure out how to do it. I'm not sure this is the fix I need, but I'm getting desperate cause I need that project. Any suggestions, advice would be greatly appreciated! Please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks in advance. joanna.
Re: [videoblogging] Help with Premiere
The good news is, I don't think this is a problem with Premiere The bad news is, I think its a problem with your codecs. That canon camera (the same one I use) stores its AVIs in MJPEG format. It sounds like one of your installs/updates changed (or perhaps even removed) the MJPEG video codec from your system. If you fix that, the rest will fall into place (I think). Do you have QuickTime Player installed? Will the clips play in QuickTime Player? (Right click your clip and use open with to try and open them in Quicktime Player.)I believe QT uses an apple codec for these other than the one Windows probablly was using. I'm not 100% sure, but I think windows uses the cinepak codecs for MJPEG AVIs by default. This comes with DirectX I believe ... you might try updating/reinstalling directX and see if that fixes it. You can also run dxdiag (from the start- run) to see if Windows can find any problems with your DirectX install (look especially on the DirectX Files Tab). Alternatively, I found a place where you can download a free MJPG codec which might work (I haven't tested with this codec myself): *http://tinyurl.com/39em64* You can use the below steps, btw, to find out what video codecs you have on your system (Although they aren't always named in such a way that you can tell which one handles what). # Go to the START MENU # Select CONTROL PANEL # Select SOUNDS AUDIO DEVICES ... (I know its strange, but this is actually where you'll find the video codecs =P) # Select the Hardware Tab # Hightlight Video Codecs # Hit properties - Dave On 7/8/07, rusted.gate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm looking for anyone with any experience using Premiere Elements. I have a sort of complicated problem that needs solving asap. I used to use a Canon SD400 digital still camera that I imported AVIs on to my computer with. All the files are stored on one external disk. I have been working on a project in Premiere with all this footage for a few months now. I just got a new camera, that uses mini-DVDs. In order to read the DVD-RAM disc, I had to install a special driver. I still had some problems because the files were IFO files. I downloaded some freeware and some more codecs, trying to be able to use these files. Meanwhile, I'm use my old camera and when I got to take my AVIs off of the card, I notice I have no thumbnails. When I open the file, it plays, with no video image. Same in Premiere. When I open up this old project I was working on, all of my AVIs are without video... in the timeline and also on my harddrive. I removed all my video-type programs, except Premiere, including all the drivers and DivX and Xvid. Then I could see all of my files when I viewed them straight off of my hard disk but I couldn't see them in my timeline. I don't want to revert and I don't want to delete Premiere. I want to do something like refresh all of my clips that are placed in the timeline but can't figure out how to do it. I'm not sure this is the fix I need, but I'm getting desperate cause I need that project. Any suggestions, advice would be greatly appreciated! Please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks in advance. joanna. Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] HELP: Content Runneth Over On My Sidebar
Hi everyone: Boy I could sure use a little help. On my page for The Pat Cook Show (Video Version) @ http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ I've got content that just simply runs off the edge of the sidebar, causing it to be partially chopped off. I've tried resizing what I can, but some of it simply can't be resized to fit into the sidebar without being chopped off. On the page for my audio podcast @ http://thepcradioshow.blogspot.com/ I've got a section for webrings that gets chopped off because of the way the JavaScript from Webring.com is set up. And the frustrating part of that is I can't alter the size of that either. The same thing happens in the main message body area as well, but I can control that with little to no problem at all. The sidebar however is a completely different issue altogether. So, short of either switching hosts or experimenting with the Blogger templates in an effort to find the right one, what might you guys suggest I do to fix this problem (BTW I am aware I need to add the RSS feed to my video page. I will do that as soon as I post this)? Any help and/or suggestions you can provide would be appreciated :D Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado BLOGS PODCASTS - AS MY WACKED OUT WORLD TURNS - http://pchamster.livejournal.com/ PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Blogger Page) - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ THE PAT COOK SHOW (Audio Podcast) - http://thepcradioshow.blogspot.com/
Re: [videoblogging] Help! I destroyed my left side bar
Hi everyone: On 6/23/07, amani_c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to add a widget to the bottom of my sidebar and must have deleted some code. Now my arhive is all screwed up. I need a blog doctor. What's the URL to your blog and who is your host (e.g. Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, yourself with Typepad, Wordpress or other setup)? We need more info. before we can attempt to diagnose your problem. Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado BLOGS PODCASTS - AS MY WACKED OUT WORLD TURNS - http://pchamster.livejournal.com/ PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Blogger Page) - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ THE PAT COOK SHOW (Audio Podcast) - http://thepcradioshow.blogspot.com/
[videoblogging] Help with Motion graphics 16:9 back into FinalCutPro
Hi, Needing help with Motion and Final Cut Pro integration. We've created a full screen Motion graphic. Originally created it at the default 720x480 NTSC DV format. It contains background graphics, text, and motion graphics. In Final Cut we imported our DV widescreen video clips which also have a 720x480 format. The exported video will be 640x360. If we import the Motion .motn file into FCP, it's a different size than the FCP clips. If we resize the original Motion file to 640x360 and import into FCP it's too small and pixelates when we scale it up. We know if has something to do with the anamorphic nature of the 16:9 format. But the 4 FCP and Motion books we have only talk about lower third titles and 4:3 aspect vid clips. Many searches on Google only turned up tutorials on how to send video clips from FCP to Motion, not how to properly size and format Motion for use in FCP 16:9 projects. We asked a couple of people that use FCP but no one uses Motion? Any help or a point to a tutorial would be greatly appreciated. Aloha and Mahalo, Rox and Shane -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian 808-384-5554 http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling http://www.beachwalks.tv http://www.barefeetshop.com http://www.barefeetstudios.com
Re: [videoblogging] help watching on tv
steve .. I was looking for something that inputs to s-video and it doesn't look like this does, but I may not understand it. ... richard On 3/6/07, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought an HDMI DVI Cable for $5.03. http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/03/steve-tv-ii-hdmi-dvi- cable.html or http://tinyurl.com/ytxvn4 On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: Maureen and I always watch vlogs on TV using the iPod. My iPod quite working ... very sad ... tried the reboot thing, that's worked before a zillion times I thought I'd connect the mac book pro using audio and s-video, but no s-video on mac book pro. Maybe it would work with AV cable for iPod by sticking it in the ear phone jack ... nope Maybe I could burn stuff to dvd and watch ... not too good of an option Ok, I admit it, actually tonight I was going to watch an episode of lost I got from iPod store in .m4v I can't believe that would work in my dvd player. Quicktime pro didn't seem to want to convert that file into anything else, maybe copy protection, I don't know. ... any ideas apprecaited ... richard -- Richard http://richardhhall.org Shows http://richardshow.org http://inspiredhealing.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com -- Richard http://richardhhall.org Shows http://richardshow.org http://inspiredhealing.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] help watching on tv
Maureen and I always watch vlogs on TV using the iPod. My iPod quite working ... very sad ... tried the reboot thing, that's worked before a zillion times I thought I'd connect the mac book pro using audio and s-video, but no s-video on mac book pro. Maybe it would work with AV cable for iPod by sticking it in the ear phone jack ... nope Maybe I could burn stuff to dvd and watch ... not too good of an option Ok, I admit it, actually tonight I was going to watch an episode of lost I got from iPod store in .m4v I can't believe that would work in my dvd player. Quicktime pro didn't seem to want to convert that file into anything else, maybe copy protection, I don't know. ... any ideas apprecaited ... richard -- Richard http://richardhhall.org Shows http://richardshow.org http://inspiredhealing.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] help watching on tv
I just bought an HDMI DVI Cable for $5.03. http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/03/steve-tv-ii-hdmi-dvi- cable.html or http://tinyurl.com/ytxvn4 On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: Maureen and I always watch vlogs on TV using the iPod. My iPod quite working ... very sad ... tried the reboot thing, that's worked before a zillion times I thought I'd connect the mac book pro using audio and s-video, but no s-video on mac book pro. Maybe it would work with AV cable for iPod by sticking it in the ear phone jack ... nope Maybe I could burn stuff to dvd and watch ... not too good of an option Ok, I admit it, actually tonight I was going to watch an episode of lost I got from iPod store in .m4v I can't believe that would work in my dvd player. Quicktime pro didn't seem to want to convert that file into anything else, maybe copy protection, I don't know. ... any ideas apprecaited ... richard -- Richard http://richardhhall.org Shows http://richardshow.org http://inspiredhealing.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com
[videoblogging] Help me understand
I just read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16978938/ Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this article please.I read things like this and I am tornon one hand who am I to judge a culture or another country's lawsbut on the other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane. It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the power of education, the power, the hope that things can changeby making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can happen... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com
Re: [videoblogging] Help me understand
We all have every right to judge other people, countries, and customs. They may not agree with our judgements - they have that right. I am absolutely not shy to say that laws like these are barbaric and medieval. We can only hope that the people of Saudi Arabia some day succeed in rebelling against this idiocy - it's clear that many of them aren't particularly happy about it, either. However... the arrestees, while foreigners, broke local laws. You must live by the laws of the country you are in, no matter how stupid they are, and you can't expect to get away with anything just because you're a foreigner. Last year there were several highly-publicized cases of Australians sentenced to death for smuggling drugs into Indonesia. I don't agree with the death sentence for anything, let alone drug smuggling. However, it seemed a bit much for the Australian government to expect these people to be let off just because the laws are more lenient at home. If you're going to smuggle drugs, you ought to at least be smart enough to research the local laws and understand exactly what you're risking! Similarly, a foreign teenager (I forget what nationality, maybe American) was sentenced to lashing in Singapore some years ago, for graffiti. Again, that's the local law - why should he get special treatment because he's foreign? The lesson here is that other countries are decidedly NOT like our home countries in all sorts of ways, and it's a good idea to learn the ropes before you go there. On 2/5/07, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16978938/ Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this article please.I read things like this and I am tornon one hand who am I to judge a culture or another country's lawsbut on the other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane. It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the power of education, the power, the hope that things can changeby making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can happen... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help me understand
He's in jail because American laws about sex are incredibly stupid. The fact that he's black probably doesn't help. Most countries have at least a few really stupid, cruel, backward-thinking laws, though some have many of them. Just to show that I'm am equal-opportunity bitch: In Italy you could get into trouble for making a satirical video about the Pope - there is a law specifically protecting religions against insult. A website showing mock-up pictures of Ratzinger in a Nazi uniform was taken down by the Italian police as an offense against the Church. On 2/5/07, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read this http://www.wilsonappeal.com/index.php ( In jail because he is black ? a vlogger ? Or because stupid laws ?) Peace, love, solidarity Loiez -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help me understand
The United States is not so far along from having religious police. As late as the early 1960's - while there were not police acting under laws - social convention / pressure dictated strict behavioral codes among men and women. Hell, in the late 60's we girls were not permitted to wear coulottes (skirt/shorts) to school. On some level, I do understand it - and that understanding scares me. So long as individuals are free to find information about alternative choices and thereafter choose where on the planet they live, I see no problem with radically different cultures enforcing their codes of behavior how ever they choose. That said, female circumcision and stoning for adultery, and the story you mention, etc., need serious attenuation / attention and protections from a human rights perspective. Freedom is freedom, no? In the future, I see lots of people choosing where to live based on culture, based upon what is and is not permitted. It's already happening in the U.S. where homosexuals must surely be flocking to states that recognize gay marriage, and folks who do not accept gay marriage moving elsewhere as appropriate. That's one reason States Rights as opposed to Federal control are important. What needs to be opened up is access to information so folks have informed choice. Censorship of information in China for example is a bad thing. I like how the Amish let their kids out of the fold for a time so if and when they return to the community it's not because they know no other way. Don't have the brain power to write thoroughly on this subject, but...it's an important question you raise Deirdre. Thanks for the diversion. Jan On 2/5/07, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all have every right to judge other people, countries, and customs. They may not agree with our judgements - they have that right. I am absolutely not shy to say that laws like these are barbaric and medieval. We can only hope that the people of Saudi Arabia some day succeed in rebelling against this idiocy - it's clear that many of them aren't particularly happy about it, either. However... the arrestees, while foreigners, broke local laws. You must live by the laws of the country you are in, no matter how stupid they are, and you can't expect to get away with anything just because you're a foreigner. Last year there were several highly-publicized cases of Australians sentenced to death for smuggling drugs into Indonesia. I don't agree with the death sentence for anything, let alone drug smuggling. However, it seemed a bit much for the Australian government to expect these people to be let off just because the laws are more lenient at home. If you're going to smuggle drugs, you ought to at least be smart enough to research the local laws and understand exactly what you're risking! Similarly, a foreign teenager (I forget what nationality, maybe American) was sentenced to lashing in Singapore some years ago, for graffiti. Again, that's the local law - why should he get special treatment because he's foreign? The lesson here is that other countries are decidedly NOT like our home countries in all sorts of ways, and it's a good idea to learn the ropes before you go there. On 2/5/07, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16978938/ Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this article please.I read things like this and I am tornon one hand who am I to judge a culture or another country's lawsbut on the other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane. It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the power of education, the power, the hope that things can changeby making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can happen... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help me understand
Here's the HDNet video about Wilson's case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzj-akxD7n0 Bunch more videos on the subject if you Google Genarlow Wilson. Jan On 2/5/07, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read this http://www.wilsonappeal.com/index.php ( In jail because he is black ? a vlogger ? Or because stupid laws ?) Peace, love, solidarity Loiez Le 5 févr. 07 à 15:32, Heath a écrit : I just read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16978938/ Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this article please.I read things like this and I am tornon one hand who am I to judge a culture or another country's lawsbut on the other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane. It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the power of education, the power, the hope that things can changeby making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can happen... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help me understand
I just read this http://www.wilsonappeal.com/index.php ( In jail because he is black ? a vlogger ? Or because stupid laws ?) Peace, love, solidarity Loiez Le 5 févr. 07 à 15:32, Heath a écrit : I just read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16978938/ Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this article please.I read things like this and I am tornon one hand who am I to judge a culture or another country's lawsbut on the other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane. It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the power of education, the power, the hope that things can changeby making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can happen... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help me understand
I think what's going on here has more to do with what people decide to emphasize in the news and how we take that information in and use it. Often, when I see many major news programs and articles, I marvel at which stories they choose to emphasize (or don't). For every sensational or extremest story from there, I can find an equally insane one from here. I don't think that is helping me get a fair and balanced picture of what is going on however. Historically, if you look back at the media published about the Japanese before WWII, you'll see that Americans portrayed them as less than human, with strange customs and incapable of feeling love as we westerners know it. same old, same old except, as you say Heath, we now have the power of the net to change this. I think that we need to balance big media articles like this with more personal media from around the world before making too many judgments and generalizing them to an entire culture. markus On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Heath wrote: Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this article please.I read things like this and I am tornon one hand who am I to judge a culture or another country's lawsbut on the other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane. It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the power of education, the power, the hope that things can changeby making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can happen... --- Markus Sandy http://feeds.feedburner.com/havemoneywillvlog http://feeds.feedburner.com/apperceptions http://feeds.feedburner.com/digitaldojo http://feeds.feedburner.com/spinflow [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help watching videoblogs on TV - confused
We have both Mac and PC in our house and although I hate Microsoft, it seems like Apple TV doesn't include access to live TV or using a HD recorder, which would lead me towards Windows Media Center. Combine Apple TV with Elgato EyeTV for the Mac and it looks like you have the solution you're looking for: http://www.elgato.com/ Best, Josh On 2/5/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone set up with Apple TV, Windows Media Center (or the new Sony LocationFree thing), to integrate their home systems? What's the best choice for tying everything together? I'm looking for largest range of functions and easiest to use, obviously. Our CD player and DVD player have both finally packed up. Our TV is a 15 year old blurry 14 inch unportable portable. I have been trying to persuade my technophobic wife that instead of replacing these things separately, we could get an integrated media system. She thinks I just want to watch videoblogs on TV. She's right - that's definitely a driving motivation - but I also like the idea of having one system to access: - Our music, both CD and online - Films, both DVDs and downloaded - The 100 or so vlogs that I subscribe to, and podcasts - Live digital broadcast TV with guide - Hard disk recorder and live TV pausing/rewinding Can I get ALL of these things through one nice TV with nice speakers? We have both Mac and PC in our house and although I hate Microsoft, it seems like Apple TV doesn't include access to live TV or using a HD recorder, which would lead me towards Windows Media Center. If there is a better third party system to use, I'd rather use that - but I need an easy navigation remote control system that won't piss off Kate. Does anyone have any views or experience? Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Help watching videoblogs on TV - confused
Thanks, Josh. Interesting - I just read some reviews online and people were complaining that the new Elgato interface is clunkier than the previous one, and subsequently not nearly as good as Tivo or Sky+. And that there were problems switching between it and Front Row/Apple TV. Sigh. I wish it was all in the same interface like MS Media Center seems to be. The open source option, MythTV, looks amazing - and when set up it can be extended to do everything I need, but who's got the time or the expertise to set it up? I'm no computer genius, but i'm more technical than most people i know in real life and the idea of setting up a Myth box depresses me. I guess if I was a real man, the challenge of it would excite me. God dammit, it's 2006 and I just want to buy something out of the box that lets me and my luddite family do everything - TV, DVDs, CDs, Vlogs, Pics, Radio, etc, and with one remote control. I'm annoyed that it looks like the best option is a PC running Vista. Vista should die. Quite amusing though, that Apple should let Microsoft beat it at its own game, just because it wants to build a wall around itself to protect revenues. Why can't these sodding people see how they hurt themselves with their bullshit 20th century empire building? I mean, they're supposed to be forward looking Silicon Valley types! And you'd think Apple would have learned, after the disastrous result of being too insular in the 80s, ditto Sony's failure with Betamax. I'll rantily jump cut vlog the results if I ever get it sorted. R On 5 Feb 2007, at 17:14, Joshua Kinberg wrote: We have both Mac and PC in our house and although I hate Microsoft, it seems like Apple TV doesn't include access to live TV or using a HD recorder, which would lead me towards Windows Media Center. Combine Apple TV with Elgato EyeTV for the Mac and it looks like you have the solution you're looking for: http://www.elgato.com/ Best, Josh On 2/5/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone set up with Apple TV, Windows Media Center (or the new Sony LocationFree thing), to integrate their home systems? What's the best choice for tying everything together? I'm looking for largest range of functions and easiest to use, obviously. Our CD player and DVD player have both finally packed up. Our TV is a 15 year old blurry 14 inch unportable portable. I have been trying to persuade my technophobic wife that instead of replacing these things separately, we could get an integrated media system. She thinks I just want to watch videoblogs on TV. She's right - that's definitely a driving motivation - but I also like the idea of having one system to access: - Our music, both CD and online - Films, both DVDs and downloaded - The 100 or so vlogs that I subscribe to, and podcasts - Live digital broadcast TV with guide - Hard disk recorder and live TV pausing/rewinding Can I get ALL of these things through one nice TV with nice speakers? We have both Mac and PC in our house and although I hate Microsoft, it seems like Apple TV doesn't include access to live TV or using a HD recorder, which would lead me towards Windows Media Center. If there is a better third party system to use, I'd rather use that - but I need an easy navigation remote control system that won't piss off Kate. Does anyone have any views or experience? Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help watching videoblogs on TV - confused
On 5 Feb 2007, at 19:30, Rupert wrote: God dammit, it's 2006 and I just want to buy something out of the box that lets me and my luddite family do everything and now it's 2007 already. that's even worse. there's a book that came out in the uk a couple of years ago called Is it just me, or is everything shit? (a broadside against consumer capitalism). this year they published Is it just me, or is everything shit, volume 2 (because if anything, it all just keeps getting worse).
Re: [videoblogging] Help watching videoblogs on TV - confused
i'm a believer in the everything is shit and it keeps getting worse theory. sad. On 2/5/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Feb 2007, at 19:30, Rupert wrote: God dammit, it's 2006 and I just want to buy something out of the box that lets me and my luddite family do everything and now it's 2007 already. that's even worse. there's a book that came out in the uk a couple of years ago called Is it just me, or is everything shit? (a broadside against consumer capitalism). this year they published Is it just me, or is everything shit, volume 2 (because if anything, it all just keeps getting worse). -- Sull http://vlogdir.com (a project) http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) http://interdigitate.com (otherly) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help watching videoblogs on TV - confused
Hi Rupert, I'm part of the team that develops TVTonic, the free vlog aggregator for Windows Media Center. Check us out at www.tvtonic.com -- I think you'll find that it's a pretty easy way to watch vlogs on your TV, via remote control. I currently use the DVR from my cable company at home, along with a Windows Media Center machine that's used exclusively for vlogs on TVTonic and watching stuff from bittorrent. At some point I'm going to buy a Vista MCE machine that will record HD and I'll get rid of the cable box. I don't have any personal experience with using Elgato EyeTV, but Front Row is beautiful on a big screen TV, and the price of a Mac Mini is pretty tough to beat. I think those two options are better than building your own open-source linux based MythTV box. I'd recommend going to Best Buy and playing with a Windows Media Center machine, and comparing it to an EyeTV setup at the apple store. In the end, it's probably whatever you think looks the best. Hope that helps. - André On 2/5/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone set up with Apple TV, Windows Media Center (or the new Sony LocationFree thing), to integrate their home systems? What's the best choice for tying everything together? I'm looking for largest range of functions and easiest to use, obviously. Our CD player and DVD player have both finally packed up. Our TV is a 15 year old blurry 14 inch unportable portable. I have been trying to persuade my technophobic wife that instead of replacing these things separately, we could get an integrated media system. She thinks I just want to watch videoblogs on TV. She's right - that's definitely a driving motivation - but I also like the idea of having one system to access: - Our music, both CD and online - Films, both DVDs and downloaded - The 100 or so vlogs that I subscribe to, and podcasts - Live digital broadcast TV with guide - Hard disk recorder and live TV pausing/rewinding Can I get ALL of these things through one nice TV with nice speakers? We have both Mac and PC in our house and although I hate Microsoft, it seems like Apple TV doesn't include access to live TV or using a HD recorder, which would lead me towards Windows Media Center. If there is a better third party system to use, I'd rather use that - but I need an easy navigation remote control system that won't piss off Kate. Does anyone have any views or experience? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help watching videoblogs on TV - confused
Thanks a lot, Andre. Checking out EyeTV at the Apple Store. Why didn't I think of that? Because I'm an idiot. Right now, I think I'm headed in the Windows direction, though. It seems like the best fit. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have any part of their attempt to extort billions more dollars from people who don't know any better (and while they're at it, force those same people to buy new boxes to cope with Vista's ridiculous system requirements). But TVTonic looks very cool, and just what I'm looking for, so that'll sweeten the pill. :-D Good work Rupert On 5 Feb 2007, at 19:22, André Sala wrote: Hi Rupert, I'm part of the team that develops TVTonic, the free vlog aggregator for Windows Media Center. Check us out at www.tvtonic.com -- I think you'll find that it's a pretty easy way to watch vlogs on your TV, via remote control. I currently use the DVR from my cable company at home, along with a Windows Media Center machine that's used exclusively for vlogs on TVTonic and watching stuff from bittorrent. At some point I'm going to buy a Vista MCE machine that will record HD and I'll get rid of the cable box. I don't have any personal experience with using Elgato EyeTV, but Front Row is beautiful on a big screen TV, and the price of a Mac Mini is pretty tough to beat. I think those two options are better than building your own open-source linux based MythTV box. I'd recommend going to Best Buy and playing with a Windows Media Center machine, and comparing it to an EyeTV setup at the apple store. In the end, it's probably whatever you think looks the best. Hope that helps. - André On 2/5/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone set up with Apple TV, Windows Media Center (or the new Sony LocationFree thing), to integrate their home systems? What's the best choice for tying everything together? I'm looking for largest range of functions and easiest to use, obviously. Our CD player and DVD player have both finally packed up. Our TV is a 15 year old blurry 14 inch unportable portable. I have been trying to persuade my technophobic wife that instead of replacing these things separately, we could get an integrated media system. She thinks I just want to watch videoblogs on TV. She's right - that's definitely a driving motivation - but I also like the idea of having one system to access: - Our music, both CD and online - Films, both DVDs and downloaded - The 100 or so vlogs that I subscribe to, and podcasts - Live digital broadcast TV with guide - Hard disk recorder and live TV pausing/rewinding Can I get ALL of these things through one nice TV with nice speakers? We have both Mac and PC in our house and although I hate Microsoft, it seems like Apple TV doesn't include access to live TV or using a HD recorder, which would lead me towards Windows Media Center. If there is a better third party system to use, I'd rather use that - but I need an easy navigation remote control system that won't piss off Kate. Does anyone have any views or experience? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help Needed - In Search of the Third Dimension
Someone posted this video to LiveVideo.com in response to a video I made: http://tinyurl.com/2n9fal The video that I made... the one they are responding to... is here: http://tinyurl.com/328obx Obviously, they need some serious stereoscopic help. Since I've never worked with USB cams, I *especially* need help in that department. Please help. I also posted my video (a better quality version), along with this message, to my site, if anyone would like to respond there, and I can relay the information: http://www.puppetkites.net/320 Thanks. Roger
Re: [videoblogging] Help Needed - In Search of the Third Dimension
thats one funny response :) speaking of LiveVideo.com... here is a video review from 'I Do It Digital' http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/01/30/i-test-drive-livevideo/ On 1/31/07, Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone posted this video to LiveVideo.com in response to a video I made: http://tinyurl.com/2n9fal The video that I made... the one they are responding to... is here: http://tinyurl.com/328obx Obviously, they need some serious stereoscopic help. Since I've never worked with USB cams, I *especially* need help in that department. Please help. I also posted my video (a better quality version), along with this message, to my site, if anyone would like to respond there, and I can relay the information: http://www.puppetkites.net/320 Thanks. Roger -- Sull http://vlogdir.com (a project) http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) http://interdigitate.com (otherly) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
Hey all. My recent cartoon called Screw Google may help someone who is trying to find a method to download and edit Google, Youtube and other videos. It's available on blip at: http://blip.tv/file/134228 or on my blogger site: hassleheadnews.blogspot.com. The idea behind the video is this: Google has been digitizing NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) videos into a proprietary format. These materials are public domain and instead of making them broadly available, Google is presenting them in a way that allows us to look but not touch. To get these same materials from NARA you have to jump through fiery hoops. If you don't have a screenscraper, you can use the methods presented in the video I referenced above to get footage of, say, the Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima or any other of a hundred thousand Public Domain videos. It's axiomatic that Public Domain material can never be copyrighted by inclusion in another format, so when you convert these videos, the underlying data is yours to use. Hope this contribution is fun and helpful. -David
Re: [videoblogging] Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
Not to play devils advocate (but I'm going to) your anger at google seems unjustified. I'm not sure what hoops you have to jump through to gain access to a file or video in the NARA but I'm willing to bet there is a cost associated with retrieving said information. Even if it's as simple as paying a guy or gal to pull the tape off a rack. Should the archive itself pay those fees? Maybe. They probably make you jump through hoops as a deterrent. I'm willing to bet that google pays a fee to obtain copies of those films. Or has hired lawyers and others to jump through the hoops. That being said who are you to dictate how google retransmits that data. Google isn't making any money off of putting that video up on Google Video. In fact, if anything they are losing money just by making it available in the first place. Bandwidth costs etc. So who should you be upset with? probably the NARA for not putting the content on line and free for people to download. On 23/01/07, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. My recent cartoon called Screw Google may help someone who is trying to find a method to download and edit Google, Youtube and other videos. It's available on blip at: http://blip.tv/file/134228 or on my blogger site: hassleheadnews.blogspot.com. The idea behind the video is this: Google has been digitizing NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) videos into a proprietary format. These materials are public domain and instead of making them broadly available, Google is presenting them in a way that allows us to look but not touch. To get these same materials from NARA you have to jump through fiery hoops. If you don't have a screenscraper, you can use the methods presented in the video I referenced above to get footage of, say, the Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima or any other of a hundred thousand Public Domain videos. It's axiomatic that Public Domain material can never be copyrighted by inclusion in another format, so when you convert these videos, the underlying data is yours to use. Hope this contribution is fun and helpful. -David Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] help
how do u post videos?..im confuse.
Re: [videoblogging] help
around the 23/1/07 lil_reema mentioned about [videoblogging] help that: how do u post videos?..im confuse. that's a big question :-) Start at www.freevlog.org/tutorial/ and then ask questions here on what you don't understand from there :-0 -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] hypertext.RMIT URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html
[videoblogging] Help with compression formats
I want to start off by saying that this group is great. The help I've received in this forum has been phenomenal to my learning process. But I need to ask for some additional help that goes beyond this forum. Here's my situation. I agreed to help someone by showing them a bit about how I compress my videos on my blog. Now I totally hacked my way through this stuff myself...so I don't really know what I'm doing nor feel comfortable explaining this to someone else because I don't know the how or why it works. Is anyone willing to take a paypal payment, where I can send you a few bucks to sit down with me, on the phone, and help me explain this whole compression and codec thing? You set the price. I've already read a few different books where they attempt to explain compression...I don't know if the ADD is kickin in or what but I'm confused myself and trying to explain it to someone seems out of reach. Thanks, Tobey
[videoblogging] Help Me Choose A New Camera
Hey all I get to buy a new videocamera for some work and wondered what people recommend. I get to purchase one of those snazzy HD type cameras. Don't tell me to get some tiny Xacti, I'm looking for something that will look good on the telly. As the boss says, Tell me what to buy and I'll bring the AMEX card. Yippie!! It's Christmas for Schlomo!! So yes, tell me what you use/like. I know I'm going to blow at least a couple thousand dollars, so lets play Gear Porn and show me something to drool over. Thanks! Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com
Re: [videoblogging] Help Me Choose A New Camera
schlomo rabinowitz wrote: [...] tell me what you use/like. I know I'm going to blow at least a couple thousand dollars, so lets play Gear Porn and show me something to drool over. You might be interested in the camera that I use, the Sony HVR-A1U HDV Camcorder which is around $2,500. If you don't need the XLR audio inputs and other pro features, the consumer version, the Sony HDR- HC1, sells for around $1,600. In terms of image quality the two are practically identical. I've written about the HVR-A1U on my blog: The little camcorder that could: http://kino-eye.com/2006/03/14/a1u/ How does the 'little camcorder that could' compare to its larger siblings? http://kino-eye.com/2006/03/22/a1u-fx1-z1u/ The achilles heel of this 1 CMOS chip camera camera is that the low- light performance is not as good as 3-chip CCD cameras. Have fun shopping, there is a growing number of HDV camcorders starting to hover down at the $2,000 price point. Cheers, David. David Tames, Filmmaker Media Technologist http://kino-eye.com | 617.216.1096
Re: [videoblogging] Help Me Choose A New Camera
Schlomo- If I was in the market for getting an HD camera.. I would go with the Panasonic HVX200. You've got the option of shooting w/ P2 cards, or tape. It also shoots in various frame rates, including 24p. http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Panasonic-Announces-AG-HVX200-HD-Flash-Media-Camcorder-with.htm or http://tinyurl.com/am7j6 -Chris -- -- http://www.ChrisDanielVideos.com (video blog) http://nTune.tv On 12/6/06, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all I get to buy a new videocamera for some work and wondered what people recommend. I get to purchase one of those snazzy HD type cameras. Don't tell me to get some tiny Xacti, I'm looking for something that will look good on the telly. As the boss says, Tell me what to buy and I'll bring the AMEX card. Yippie!! It's Christmas for Schlomo!! So yes, tell me what you use/like. I know I'm going to blow at least a couple thousand dollars, so lets play Gear Porn and show me something to drool over. Thanks! Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Help Me Choose A New Camera
Chris Daniel wrote: If I was in the market for getting an HD camera.. I would go with the Panasonic HVX200. You've got the option of shooting w/ P2 cards, or tape. It also shoots in various frame rates, including 24p. In response to schlomo rabinowitz: I get to buy a new videocamera for some work and wondered what people recommend [...] The HVX200 is an amazing camera, and I have sung it's praises in articles and on my blog, so I will be brief here (though it's hard when it comes to this amazing camera), however, it's over the price- point that schlomo quoted in his post, however, if you've got the budget, the HVX200 is an excellent choice. I used one for six months this year and I fell in love with the camera. I even like the P2 workflow, which is controversial. And I suggest, if you have budget for it, get a camera capable of 24P or 30P, as progressive imaging produces better web video. Interlace is a holdover from analog video broadcast. And the new Sony HVR-V1U camcorder (around $3,500) claims to finally bring true 24P to a moderately priced Sony camcorder. Here are two links to some of what I've written about the HVX200: Taking the Panasonic HVX200 out for a spin, Part 3 http://kino-eye.com/2006/03/06/taking-the-panasonic-hvx200-out-for-a- spin-part-3/ To P2 or not P2, that is the question… http://kino-eye.com/2006/04/30/to-p2-or-not-to-p2/ It's so fun to shop for cameras! David. David Tames, Filmmaker Media Technologist http://kino-eye.com | 617.216.1096 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Help us with a system test: webcams wanted! at 11 AM PST today
Hey, I need your help today. We're playing around with ways to improve our online live video system. Can you join me in our online studio (just click on the link below) at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern) TODAY? We're running a test of a new audio and video set up that we want to use for our live talk shows. We need as many people as possible to join the test at the same time -- 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern) today. Just click here at 11am PT (2pm ET) TODAY -- http://events.avacast.com/Phovi1/ava_player.php ALL WEBCAMS ARE WELCOME for the test. If you have a webcam, please use it. If you have a microphone, please use it. Thanks! Jonny P.S .Feel free to forward this to other folks. We want to try to load up our system as much as we can.
[videoblogging] Help with Wordpress background/sidebar glitch?
Can any Wordpress experts out there help with a problem? I'm using the Kubrick header, which I've modified a bit on my own. All I did was update a post by selecting all the text and making it left- justified and when the site updated, the whole whole background turned the color of my border and the sidebar was pushed to the bottom of the page. I assume the answer lies in adjusting one of the style sheets but I'm by no means an expert on Wordpress. Any advice? --Greg SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] Help with Wordpress background/sidebar glitch?
Hi Greg, Did you cut and paste something from word or another document? If so, the formatting may be conflicting with your stylesheet. The quickest fix it to simply reformat the text. Look at the source code and you'll find the problem. Cheers Monique _ Monique Danielle, President Referrals comprise the majority of our business. Please tell others about us. DivaDesignWorld Oregon PH: 971.285.3118 Florida PH: 239.963.1243 Fax: 206.309.0088 www.divadesignworld.com www.divadirectories.com -Original Message- From: gmjoyce_y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:19 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Help with Wordpress background/sidebar glitch? Can any Wordpress experts out there help with a problem? I'm using the Kubrick header, which I've modified a bit on my own. All I did was update a post by selecting all the text and making it left- justified and when the site updated, the whole whole background turned the color of my border and the sidebar was pushed to the bottom of the page. I assume the answer lies in adjusting one of the style sheets but I'm by no means an expert on Wordpress. Any advice? --Greg Yahoo! Groups Links SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] Help with Wordpress background/sidebar glitch?
I think the answer lies in modifying the code in your post -- which is also easier than changing the whole site. But it's hard to know without seeing what's happening -- what's the URL? jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 23, 2006, at 10:19 AM, gmjoyce_y wrote: Can any Wordpress experts out there help with a problem? I'm using the Kubrick header, which I've modified a bit on my own. All I did was update a post by selecting all the text and making it left- justified and when the site updated, the whole whole background turned the color of my border and the sidebar was pushed to the bottom of the page. I assume the answer lies in adjusting one of the style sheets but I'm by no means an expert on Wordpress. Any advice? --Greg SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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.
[videoblogging] Help us get to Vloggercon!
I found a great last minute deal on a flight to San Francisco last night. I had no hope of going to Vloggercon at all until finding this! The thing is, the flight is an excellent deal.. but the additional costs still add up to money we still don't really have. I really hope to make it to Vloggercon to meet you all :) If you would like to help me out.. read more here. http://nealey.blogspot.com/2006/05/help-us-get-to-vloggercon.html Erin Nealey Mom's Brag Vlog nealey.blogspot.com PLEASE? :) SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] Help us get to Vloggercon!
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Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
Same thing has happened to me on and off and yes, a recent upsurge, but no
blocking so far as I can tell. You must be at your wits' end, Jen. Will
follow this thread with interest to be sure.
Good luck, sweet woman!
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From: Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:49 PM
Subject: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic,
but...)
I seem to have a serious problem that needs some heavy duty geek
advice, so I ask forgiveness for this off-topic post. It's just you all
are my favorite geeks, and I don't know where else to turn :-(
The spammers have snatched up my jensimmons.com domain, and used it to
forge addresses on their emails. It's been happening for a long long
time, but in the last month, they've _really_ used my domain a LOT (I
know this because I am daily getting dozens of rejected email notices
for spam emails sent from ajdiv @ jensiimmons.com, baovzmr @
jensions.com, etc etc. All crap fake email addresses... well,
except with my name spelled right -- I'm writing it wrong here to
prevent more spam.)
The thing is, now all the email I send from jen aat jenssimmons.com is
being rejected from the big email houses. Like I just tried to send an
email to a gmail account -- rejected. I've apparently been completely
banned from gmail. The other day I sent an email to 10 addresses at one
time, including yahoo and hotmail and gmail addresses, and it bounced
from almost all of them. It's very annoying and getting scary --
basically I'm getting labeled by everyone as a spammer and I'm not a
spammer!
I have my own server (Redhat Linux) which hosts jensimmons.com among
other sites. I do not have Spam Assassin installed ('cause I don't know
how to do it / I don't know UNIX), so I get a ton of spam. I expect
that spammers are not actually running anything through my box, so I
can't block them or stop them from my end -- is this right?? Or maybe
I'm misunderstanding what is happening, and I can do something --
install something / report something
so that's my question, what can I do to stop these spammers from
stealing my identity, and to get back to where I can email people again
at gmail / hotmail / yahoo / aol / etc??
HELP!!
thanks,
jen
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Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
There's actually a few things that could cause this ... but assuming it is in fact unauthorized use of your mail server there are a few things you should do:First off, make sure your mail server is not an open relay. An open relay is where a mail server will forward on email even when nither the recipient nor the sender are its local users. You'll have to read a bit on your mail server to see how to configure it properly.
There are some webbased tools to test if your an open relay or not. (http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-relay-test.htm#web) 2nd, you should be able to setup your email server so that authentication is required to send email from it. This way the only people who can send email from your server are users who have a mail account on the server. Now, even if they forge the source address in an attempt to fool the 1st safeguard ... your server will additionaly insist they provide a username / password.
(I dont know much about linux (or mail servers honestly) so I cant really provide much more detail than that)3rd, run a good Anti-virus sweep on all your machines. Some viruses will send mass mail with variants of your email address ... and often generate bounce messages. If its a virus, the problem may not be on your linux box but another on your lan.
4th, make sure you have a decent firewall in place
After all thats said and done you should be ok. If you're still being blocked by spam services (because of past spam) you may need to send a request to some of the spam / open relay databases saying you've taken the above steps and ask to be removed.
- DaveOn 5/18/06, Jen Simmons
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wrote:
I seem to have a serious problem that needs some heavy duty geekadvice, so I ask forgiveness for this off-topic post. It's just you allare my favorite geeks, and I don't know where else to turn :-(The spammers have snatched up my
jensimmons.com domain, and used it toforge addresses on their emails. It's been happening for a long long
time, but in the last month, they've _really_ used my domain a LOT (I
know this because I am daily getting dozens of rejected email noticesfor spam emails sent from ajdiv @ jensiimmons.com
, baovzmr @jensions.com
, etc etc. All crap fake email addresses...well,except with my name spelled right -- I'm writing it wrong here toprevent more spam.)The thing is, now all the email I send from jen aat
jenssimmons.com isbeing rejected from the big email houses. Like I just tried to send anemail to a gmail account -- rejected. I've apparently been completelybanned from gmail. The other day I sent an email to 10 addresses at one
time, including yahoo and hotmail and gmail addresses, and it bouncedfrom almost all of them. It's very annoying and getting scary --basically I'm getting labeled by everyone as a spammer and I'm not aspammer!
I have my own server (Redhat Linux) which hosts jensimmons.com amongother sites. I do not have Spam Assassin installed ('cause I don't know
how to do it / I don't know UNIX), so I get a ton of spam. I expect
that spammers are not actually running anything through my box, so Ican't block them or stop them from my end -- is this right?? Or maybeI'm misunderstanding what is happening, and I can do something --install something / report something
so that's my question, what can I do to stop these spammers fromstealing my identity, and to get back to where I can email people againat gmail / hotmail / yahoo / aol / etc??HELP!!thanks,
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Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
Aloha Jen,Shane here (Rox's secret cameraman). We have 14 servers around the country and manage thousands of accounts for our clients. All the suggestions above are great and definitely what should be done, if you have the know-how to do them and your hosting provider allows it. :-) Right now you don't actually know if your server has been hijacked or is operating as an open relay. Since your mail.jensimmons.com server is at Go Daddy, I really doubt it's an open relay. But it's possible. If you can send me, offlist, the full headers from several of those bounced messages, I can quickly get a sense of what's going on. The message itself isn't important but the entire header is. Send a few of them, each in its own email, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll let you know what I find. This is a problem and got to be so bad that we now use both a third party spam filtering system and a dedicated email hosting provider. We still manage it for all our clients 'cause they don't care how things work, they just want it to work. But we no longer have issues with spam (I get 2-3 leaking through a day while several hundred get snagged in the filter before it even gets to our servers and desktops) and I don't have to worry about patches and keeping the mail servers secure. It's definitely worth a few bucks a month to us and our client to not have to deal with it! :-) -shanehttp://www.beachwalks.tvhttp://www.barefeetstudios.comhttp://www.barefeetshop.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
I'm not sure how to know if I've got an open relay or not. I think Shane is going to help me figure that out -- I tried the spamlinks.net adress, but its not working.
I think I've got an authentication thing-a-ma-gig in place (i hope). I'm always wrestling with smtp servers and getting through various firewalls to send mail through the smtp servers with the right password and I always expected that those technologies were keeping anybody but me from sending out email on my domain, but again, I'm over my head with this. I was guessing the spammers are just using my domainname.com to slap on their email, not that they were actually using my server. Is that possible?
Anti-virus -- I've got a Mac, so I don't think there's any way for there to be a virus on my own machine sending spam or authorizing spam or leaking passwords to spammers. (Is that naive? Or just a great thing about the Mac OS?)
FIrewalls... again. I am overwhelmed by understanding all this. My server is at GoDaddy (in a bunker in Arizona, not in my bedroom closet) so I've just been relying on their services to protect me. Hopefully that's working -- but since I know the spammers are persistent and constantly getting savvier, so...
thanks for all this info and suggestions! I'll keep working on learning so I can understand better --
thanks to David for taking time to respond
jen
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On May 18, 2006, at 1:48 PM, David Meade wrote:
There's actually a few things that could cause this ... but assuming it is in fact unauthorized use of your mail server there are a few things you should do:
First off, make sure your mail server is not an open relay. An open relay is where a mail server will forward on email even when nither the recipient nor the sender are its local users. You'll have to read a bit on your mail server to see how to configure it properly. There are some webbased tools to test if your an open relay or not. (http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-relay-test.htm#web)
2nd, you should be able to setup your email server so that authentication is required to send email from it. This way the only people who can send email from your server are users who have a mail account on the server. Now, even if they forge the source address in an attempt to fool the 1st safeguard ... your server will additionaly insist they provide a username / password.
(I dont know much about linux (or mail servers honestly) so I cant really provide much more detail than that)
3rd, run a good Anti-virus sweep on all your machines. Some viruses will send mass mail with variants of your email address ... and often generate bounce messages. If its a virus, the problem may not be on your linux box but another on your lan.
4th, make sure you have a decent firewall in place
After all thats said and done you should be ok. If you're still being blocked by spam services (because of past spam) you may need to send a request to some of the spam / open relay databases saying you've taken the above steps and ask to be removed.
- Dave
On 5/18/06, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
advice, so I ask forgiveness for this off-topic post. It's just you all
are my favorite geeks, and I don't know where else to turn :-(
The spammers have snatched up my jensimmons.com domain, and used it to
forge addresses on their emails. It's been happening for a long long
time, but in the last month, they've _really_ used my domain a LOT (I
know this because I am daily getting dozens of rejected email notices
for spam emails sent from ajdiv @ jensiimmons.com , baovzmr @
jensions.com , etc etc. All crap fake email addresses... well,
except with my name spelled right -- I'm writing it wrong here to
prevent more spam.)
The thing is, now all the email I send from jen aat jenssimmons.com is
being rejected from the big email houses. Like I just tried to send an
email to a gmail account -- rejected. I've apparently been completely
banned from gmail. The other day I sent an email to 10 addresses at one
time, including yahoo and hotmail and gmail addresses, and it bounced
from almost all of them. It's very annoying and getting scary --
basically I'm getting labeled by everyone as a spammer and I'm not a
spammer!
I have my own server (Redhat Linux) which hosts jensimmons.com among
other sites. I do not have Spam Assassin installed ('cause I don't know
how to do it / I don't know UNIX), so I get a ton of spam. I expect
that spammers are not actually running anything through my box, so I
can't block them or stop them from my end -- is this right?? Or maybe
I'm misunderstanding what is happening, and I can do something --
install something / report something
so that's my question, what can I do to stop these spammers from
stealing my identity, and to get back to where I can email people again
at gmail / hotmail / yahoo / aol / etc??
HELP!!
thanks,
jen
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Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
Shane is awesome. I've send some emails with the headers to help figure out what's happening... Thanks! - jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Shane Robinson wrote: Aloha Jen, Shane here (Rox's secret cameraman). We have 14 servers around the country and manage thousands of accounts for our clients. All the suggestions above are great and definitely what should be done, if you have the know-how to do them and your hosting provider allows it. :-) Right now you don't actually know if your server has been hijacked or is operating as an open relay. Since your mail.jensimmons.com server is at Go Daddy, I really doubt it's an open relay. But it's possible. If you can send me, offlist, the full headers from several of those bounced messages, I can quickly get a sense of what's going on. The message itself isn't important but the entire header is. Send a few of them, each in its own email, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll let you know what I find. This is a problem and got to be so bad that we now use both a third party spam filtering system and a dedicated email hosting provider. We still manage it for all our clients 'cause they don't care how things work, they just want it to work. But we no longer have issues with spam (I get 2-3 leaking through a day while several hundred get snagged in the filter before it even gets to our servers and desktops) and I don't have to worry about patches and keeping the mail servers secure. It's definitely worth a few bucks a month to us and our client to not have to deal with it! :-) -shane http://www.beachwalks.tv http://www.barefeetstudios.com http://www.barefeetshop.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
On 5/18/06, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was guessing the spammers are just using mydomainname.com to slap on their email, not that they were actuallyusing my server. Is that possible?Yes that's possible. Its easy to spoof the from address. (However for this to work they need to have an open relay.) If this is what is happening there is one other thing you can do to help the situation ... you can implement Sender Policy Framework (SPF) on your domain ( http://new.openspf.org/Introduction). It's simple, and whoever manages your DNS servers should be able to set it up very quickly. It basically provides a way for your domain to tell the rest of the world look no matter what the email says, its only REALLY from my domain if it came from my mail server which has the following ip address. As long as you are not the open relay yourself ... this allows for the REAL email from your domain to be granted a higher level of trust by the systems that recieve it. While SPF will not prevent people from trying to spoof your domain in their emails ... it will make any such spoof easily recognizable as a spoof.- Dave-- http://www.DavidMeade.comfeed:http://www.DavidMeade.com/feed SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
David's correct, Jen. I checked and you don't have a SPF record and it would definitely help. Do you know how to do that in your Go Daddy/DomainsByProxy DNS interface? We use DNS Made Easy ( http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com) to manage several hundred domains and thousands of sub-domains and it's very easy to add (and we do) SPF records for our clients that don't host their email with us. I don't know how to do this in Go Daddy/DomainsByProxy but am sure I can find out. I have a few domains registered with them just to know how their system works so we can provide tech support when needed. This would be the single best thing you could do, right now, to curb the use of your domain. You'll then have to contact the blacklists to get your domain removed. LMK if this isn't clear and I can look around. -shanehttp://www.beachwalks.tvhttp://www.barefeetstudios.comhttp://www.barefeetshop.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
around the 18/5/06 Jen Simmons mentioned about [videoblogging] help
needed with spam identity theft !! (of that:
I have my own server (Redhat Linux) which hosts jensimmons.com among
other sites. I do not have Spam Assassin installed ('cause I don't know
how to do it / I don't know UNIX), so I get a ton of spam. I expect
that spammers are not actually running anything through my box, so I
can't block them or stop them from my end -- is this right?? Or maybe
I'm misunderstanding what is happening, and I can do something --
install something / report something
you probably have open mail relay on your mail server. this lets
anyone use it to send their email through from anywhere else, much
beloved of spammers. URL:
http://www.mail-abuse.com/enduserinfo.html should be able to help
(if this is the problem). you need to ensure your mail server only
sends from known (legitimate) accounts.
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Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
I'm pretty sure I do not have an opern mail relay -- but instead the mail is coming from other servers, with labels as if it's from my server. Shane Robinson has been a huge help today read the headers of a bnuch of reject notices and confirmed that yes, those spam emails were being sent to people from computers in Canada/Oklahoma, the Netherlands, etc. Perhaps from people's home computers that are infected with spam, and made up emails from my domain are getting slapped into the from slot. I know this is happening because any email sent to any address on my domain gets forwarded to my real email account -- so people are lying and saying their spam is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a real favorite) or other bogus names. David's advice, seconded by Shane is to register my domain with my ip addresses with SPF technology... basically letting the world know, hey, all email from this domain can only come from MY box. (I thought the internet was already set up that way, but apparently not. Apparently anyone can say, yeah... I'm sending this email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's good to know spammers are NOT using my server's energy to do their work. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: you probably have open mail relay on your mail server. this lets anyone use it to send their email through from anywhere else, much beloved of spammers. URL: http://www.mail-abuse.com/enduserinfo.html should be able to help (if this is the problem). you need to ensure your mail server only sends from known (legitimate) accounts. -- SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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.
[videoblogging] Help with iTunes upload
Vloggers: Looking for some help uploading my vlog to iTunes. Usually with enough time I can figure these things out, but not this time. The instructions I followed were to: 1. create an account on blogger.com, 2. upload my vlogs to that account, then 3. create an account on feedburner.com, 4. paste in the url of my blogger.com account and feedburner.com generates a new url http://feeds.feedburner.com/Poetryvlogcom 5. paste that into the ³submit a podcast to iTunes directory² window and click on the continue button. Each time I do that I get the message, ³the feed has no episodes². Well that is true, each week a new poet is featured and the site¹s url http://www.poetryvlog.com remains the same, so there are no episodes per se, but the featured poet is different each week even though the url remains the same (the browser opens the index.html page). Is there a known work around that will allow the upload of a url for this site that iTunes will recognize as episodic? Thanks, Michael poetryvlog.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] Help with iTunes upload
Hey Michael,Here's the problem. Your feed just has links back to poetryvlog.com instead of links to video files. It looks like your site is a few static html pages. What are you doing with blogger? Here are some ways to set it up:1. Make your blogger blog your index.html page and have it set to show only one post at a time. This is essentially what I have done on my site, though it's a wordpress blog instead of blogger ( http://michaelverdi.com ).2. Post videos to a blogger blog but don't link it to the front index.html - just use it to generate the feed. That second option is not a good though because you won't be able to do things like have people comment on posts. -VerdiOn 5/16/06, M. Mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vloggers:Looking for some help uploadingmy vlog to iTunes. Usually with enough timeI can figure these things out, but not this time.The instructions I followed were to:1. create an account on blogger.com,2. upload my vlogs to that account, then3. create an account on feedburner.com,4. paste in the url of my blogger.com account and feedburner.com generates anew urlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/Poetryvlogcom5. paste that into the ³submit a podcast to iTunes directory² window and click on thecontinue button. Each time I do that I get the message, ³the feed has no episodes². Well that is true, each week a new poet is featured and the site¹s url http://www.poetryvlog.com remains the same, so there are no episodes perse, but the featured poet is different each week even though the url remainsthe same (the browser opens the index.html page). Is there a known work around that will allow the upload of a url forthis site that iTunes will recognize as episodic?Thanks,Michaelpoetryvlog.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Everything you need is oneclick away. Make Yahoo! your home pagenow.http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM~- Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- Author of the book Secrets Of VideobloggingMe -- http://michaelverdi.com Learn to videoblog -- http://freevlog.orgI'm Going To Vloggercon, June 10 11 -- http://vloggercon.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad 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: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX
An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise youve got ActiveX employed on your Web site? Its causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com 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] Help with ActiveX
Hey Nathan,You can use the Freevlog pop-up maker http://freevlog.org/popupor Enric's vPIP plug-inhttp://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/ Both of these address the ActiveX thing by embeded videos via an external _javascript_.-VerdiOn 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employedon your Web site? It's causing these really annoyingpop-up messages to appear in my browser every time Iaccess your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this?Can anyhow send me in the right direction.Any help will be rewarded.Nathan Millerwww.bicycle-sidewalk.comYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- Me: http://michaelverdi.comRD: http://evilvlog.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.orgLearn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org 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] Help with ActiveX
you can also search this group for 'activex' or 'eolas' -- there were two big threads about it a few days back On 4/21/06, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Nathan, You can use the Freevlog pop-up maker http://freevlog.org/popup or Enric's vPIP plug-in http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/ Both of these address the ActiveX thing by embeded videos via an external _javascript_. -Verdi On 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com RD: http://evilvlog.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org 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. -- twhidwww.mteww.com/twhid 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] Help with ActiveX
You should also let them know that it's not you, it's them. In other words-- you didn't change anything. Their web browser changed, and they're going to get those popups on other sites as well. Then point them to a real web browser, like Firefox. --Stephanie On 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs 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] Help with ActiveX
Right on.Also, i should google for this but a friend told me their is a hack that people can do on their windows machines to get around this issue and the activex prompt wont popup on sites that have not changed to workaround it. Anyone know about this? She didnt send me a link yet.SullOn 4/21/06, Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:You should also let them know that it's not you, it's them. In other words-- you didn't change anything. Their web browser changed, andthey're going to get those popups on other sites as well.Then point them to a real web browser, like Firefox.--StephanieOn 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links --Stephanie Bryant[EMAIL PROTECTED]Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at:http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- Sullhttp://vlogdir.com http://SpreadTheMedia.org SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual 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] Help with ActiveX
nathan, they probably have their security settings in IE set to do this go to the Tools menu and select Internet Options go to the Security Settings tab and press advanced check the ActiveX controls and plugins settings they are probably set to prompt, probably on the Download signed activex controls they can change the setting to get rid of the message if they feel that is appropriate (might not be if they are surfing from work) markus p.s. using one of the pop-up maker tools will not change this Nathan Miller wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you’ve got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It’s causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links . -- Markus Sandy http://apperceptions.org http://spinflow.org Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX
it's a settings issue in IE he would have the same problem with these pop-up makers the issue is that their browser is set to prompt or warn anytime an activex object shows up Michael Verdi wrote: Hey Nathan, You can use the Freevlog pop-up maker http://freevlog.org/popup or Enric's vPIP plug-in http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/ Both of these address the ActiveX thing by embeded videos via an external _javascript_. -Verdi On 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com RD: http://evilvlog.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org 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. -- Markus Sandy http://apperceptions.org http://spinflow.org 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] Help with ActiveX
exactly! Stephanie Bryant wrote: You should also let them know that it's not you, it's them. In other words-- you didn't change anything. Their web browser changed, and they're going to get those popups on other sites as well. Then point them to a real web browser, like Firefox. --Stephanie On 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . -- Markus Sandy http://apperceptions.org http://spinflow.org SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual 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] Help with ActiveX
i don't think this has anything to do with that issue T.Whid wrote: you can also search this group for 'activex' or 'eolas' -- there were two big threads about it a few days back On 4/21/06, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Nathan, You can use the Freevlog pop-up maker http://freevlog.org/popup or Enric's vPIP plug-in http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/ Both of these address the ActiveX thing by embeded videos via an external _javascript_. -Verdi On 4/21/06, Nathan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An avid watcher of my stuff dropped me this comment: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Can anyhow send me in the right direction. Any help will be rewarded. Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com RD: http://evilvlog.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org 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. -- twhidwww.mteww.com/twhid Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Markus Sandy http://apperceptions.org http://spinflow.org 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] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
[ FYI: This thread was started as a response to another conversation, in the What's The Perfect Vlogging Software? thread. This means that the new topic will be invisible to those whose emailer follows threading conventions, and made the archive misthreaded too: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/39116 Hitting New for new conversations and pasting in the Yahoo Groups mailing address is cleaner than hitting Reply to start a new discussion, thanks in advance. ] Nathan Miller asked for help in understanding this incoming message:: Hey Nathan, do you realise you’ve got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It’s causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Not knowing the literal alert the person saw makes it hard for any of us to be definitive. If this person is using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, then they are by definition using ActiveX Controls to render some of their content. I visited your site in Firefox/WinXP, and also saw alerts. I have an older version of QuickTime installed, but did not have the codecs necessary to view that QT content. Here's what's going on: When someone visits your video page in a plugin-using browser (Mozilla, Safari, Opera, others) then the server identifies the media type of this extended content via the MIME type abbreviations. The browser then checks which plugins it has that can display this video type, invokes the plugin, and displays the content. In Microsoft's Window browser, the OBJECT tag identifies the ActiveX Control which the designer wants to use (via the CLSID), and identifies any minimum version (via the CODEBASE argument). In both cases, the browser will throw up an alert if the plugin or control is not installed. IE/Win will also do a version check, and will also do a background-download of the necessary Control. Some plugins (such as QuickTime, I believe) will also throw up their own alert if the renderer is too old to render more modern content. Bottom line: If your visitor's browser cannot yet render your content, they will see an alert, and the browser will try to guide them to an updated browser extension, in either Netscape Plugin or ActiveX wrapper. What to do? This person will be seeing lots of similar alerts in IE/Win... it's not solely your responsibility. Your *site* doesn't use ActiveX so much as his *browser* uses ActiveX, and your site tries to accommodate their choice. How to minimize? This is self-serving of me, admitted, but it's easiest to use video in the Adobe Flash video architecture. More people have this browser extension than any other, and more people have the current version than have the current versions of any other WWW technology. This will not eliminate all browser-incapability alerts, but will reduce them greatly... in its first three months over 50% of consumers tested had already updated to Flash Player 8, so the odds are much better that your audience will not see any update alerts. Sorry I took so long, but I hope the above background helps figure out what they're objecting to. (And like other folks in this thread, I don't see any connection to the Eolas behavior change in IE/Win... only commonality seems to be the word ActiveX in the title.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX
Michael Verdi wrote: If the alert that they user is seeing is related to the recent IE security update then won't they see it even if the video is Flash since it will use the Object tag? huh? Let me pour another cup of coffee here ;-) [ Later: ah, got it, I think... for Is use of Flash affected by the recent Microsoft browser change? then yes, it is, with lots more info here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent ] When I go to a page where someone has posted a flash movie with code they get from blip I get a Click to activate and use this control message when I mouse over it. Also, for example the website for my theater uses flash for thier navagation and I get that same thing on each page I navagate too. The solution I beleive lies not in what format you choose but in how you write it into the page. The way I understand it and have experienced it so far is that any use of the Object, Embed or Applet tags gets you the alert in IE 6. Hmm, if an underlying question Is the new 'click to activate' tooltip in Microsoft Internet Explorer like the 'missing plugin' or 'update your plugin' alerts browsers sometime show?, then I don't think so... different issues. But I'm not sure I pulled the right question-mark out of the paragraph of periods. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Help with ActiveX
Doh! We're in two different theads now somehow.Anyway, all I was trying to say is it looks like Nathan's problem is the click to activate thing - not a missing plugin. So using Flash wouldn't solve the problem - rather it's about how the media file is embeded. -VerdiOn 4/21/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Verdi wrote: If the alert that they user is seeing is related to the recent IE security update then won't they see it even if the video is Flash since it will use the Object tag?huh? Let me pour another cup of coffee here ;-) [ Later: ah, got it, I think... for Is use of Flash affected by therecent Microsoft browser change? then yes, it is, with lots more infohere: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent ]When I go to a page where someone has posted a flash movie with code they get from blip I get a Click to activate and use this control message when I mouse over it. Also,for example the website for my theater uses flash for thier navagation and I get that same thing on each page I navagate too. The solution I beleive lies not in what format you choose but in how you write it into the page. The way I understand it and have experienced it so far is that any use of the Object, Embed or Applet tags gets you the alert in IE 6.Hmm, if an underlying question Is the new 'click to activate' tooltipin Microsoft Internet Explorer like the 'missing plugin' or 'update your plugin' alerts browsers sometime show?, then I don't think so...different issues. But I'm not sure I pulled the right question-mark outof the paragraph of periods.jd--John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jdAggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxnaTechnotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- Me: http://michaelverdi.comRD: http://evilvlog.comLearn to videoblog: http://freevlog.orgLearn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org 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] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: And (more importantly) Flash isn't an open format (like HTML, XML, PNG, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, etc) that everyone has the freedom to implement and do whatever they want with. Actually, since about 1998 or so, anyone can create SWF: http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/developer/ What's controlled is the Macromedia source code for the rendering engine, so that there aren't the forking and compatibility difficulties we see among the various WWW browsers. Flash is a proprietary format owned by Adobe/Macromedia. And Adobe/Macromedia restricts what can and can't be done with their free/gratis Flash player. Not to mention Adobe/Macromedia seems to be the only ones allowed to create server side software for Flash... for example, the RTMP protocol is completely closed and proprietary... and it's yet to be seen if Adobe/Macromedia would invoke the DMCA against anyone who reverse engineered it. There are many non-Adobe servers which work with SWF: http://osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects#servers_and_remoting The RTMP issue is trickier, because Adobe *licenses* third-party codecs (Fraunhoffer, Nelly-Moser, Sorenson, Duck) for inclusion... it's hard to document what others own. For that cussword proprietary itself, it starts to get fuzzier the closer you look at it: Is 'Open and Shut' actually open-and-shut? (March 2003) http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/jd_forum/jd026.html But having said all that, I do think it is acceptable to have Flash as one of many different options of watching a vlog. But it should NOT be the only one. I agree... arbitrary prohibitions aren't useful. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
Hello,IE7 is suppose to finally support transparent and translucent PNG's.But even with older version of IE, you can have transparent and translucent PNG's if you add a little CSS hack. (This hack actually seemed to piss some people off, because there's no reason that MS couldn't have done this by default in IE.) If you run all the images on your page through a certain DirectX filter (using CSS) you can get PNG transparency and translucency. See yaOn 4/21/06, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice idea, but given how long it's taken to get support for just JPEG, GIF and PNG in the img tag, i'm not too hopeful about a universal video tag that supports multiple video formats i think we're on our own on this > does IE know how to *properly* display a transparent PNG yet? I doubt it :p Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Hello John, Honestly, I'd rather see browsers (and other software) support video natively. (The same way that, for example, PNG's are supported natively and do NOT require a plug-in to be viewed.) And have it so all you need is to use a video element to embed videos... like the how HTML img element embeds images. (SMIL already has a video element.) I like Flash. (And I really don't want to get into a heated debate but,) (Although alot of people can) Not everyone can view Flash. And (more importantly) Flash isn't an open format (like HTML, XML, PNG, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, etc) that everyone has the freedom to implement and do whatever they want with. Flash is a proprietary format owned by Adobe/Macromedia. And Adobe/Macromedia restricts what can and can't be done with their free/gratis Flash player. Not to mention Adobe/Macromedia seems to be the only ones allowed to create server side software for Flash... for example, the RTMP protocol is completely closed and proprietary... and it's yet to be seen if Adobe/Macromedia would invoke the DMCA against anyone who reverse engineered it. But having said all that, I do think it is acceptable to have Flash as one of many different options of watching a vlog. But it should NOT be the only one. You have to have a way for completely Free access to vlogs and Internet TV. (There should NOT be a tax on vlogs and Internet TV.) Please, refer to this for something related: http://maketelevision.com/log/why_ogg_theora_matters_for_internet_tv See ya On 4/21/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ FYI: This thread was started as a response to another conversation, in the What's The Perfect Vlogging Software? thread. This means that the new topic will be invisible to those whose emailer follows threading conventions, and made the archive misthreaded too: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/39116 Hitting New for new conversations and pasting in the Yahoo Groups mailing address is cleaner than hitting Reply to start a new discussion, thanks in advance. ] Nathan Miller asked for help in understanding this incoming message:: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Not knowing the literal alert the person saw makes it hard for any of us to be definitive. If this person is using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, then they are by definition using ActiveX Controls to render some of their content. I visited your site in Firefox/WinXP, and also saw alerts. I have an older version of QuickTime installed, but did not have the codecs necessary to view that QT content. Here's what's going on: When someone visits your video page in a plugin-using browser (Mozilla, Safari, Opera, others) then the server identifies the media type of this extended content via the MIME type abbreviations. The browser then checks which plugins it has that can display this video type, invokes the plugin, and displays the content. In Microsoft's Window browser, the OBJECT tag identifies the ActiveX Control which the designer wants to use (via the CLSID), and identifies any minimum version (via the CODEBASE argument). In both cases, the browser will throw up an alert if the plugin or control is not installed. IE/Win will also do a version check, and will also do a background-download of the necessary Control. Some plugins (such as QuickTime, I believe) will also throw up their own alert if the renderer is too old to render more modern content. Bottom line: If your visitor's browser cannot yet render your content, they will see an alert, and the browser will try to guide them to an updated browser extension, in either Netscape Plugin or ActiveX wrapper. What to do? This person will be seeing lots of similar alerts in IE/Win... it's not solely your responsibility. Your *site* doesn't use ActiveX so much as his *browser*
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
Hello JohnOn 4/21/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: And (more importantly) Flash isn't an open format (like HTML, XML, PNG, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, etc) that everyone has the freedom to implement and do whatever they want with. Actually, since about 1998 or so, anyone can create SWF:http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/developer/When I say open format I mean it essentially as described in this document: http://www.goland.org/buyingopenstandards (Although, I'd probably go even further than what this document says for what I'd say is open.)Adobe/Macromedia requires that you agree to all sorts of conditions before you look at or use those documents. (Which is their legal prerogative to do.) But, for example, one could NOT create a alternative Flash player using that information. (For example, Gnash could NOT use those documents.)And because of that it is NOT open. (Although, please note that I think Macromedia has been very good with the developer community. And I like Macromedia and their products. But I think it's important to point out that SWF isn't an open format. Doesn't mean it's bad. Doesn't mean people shouldn't use it. But it's important to note make that note.) What's controlled is the Macromedia source code for the renderingengine, so that there aren't the forking and compatibility difficulties we see among the various WWW browsers.Yeah, I do understand that side of it. (Compatibility is important.) And I understand Adobe/Macromedia's business motivations. (Last I heard, most of Macromedia's income was from licensing the Flash player for devices like cell phones. Not sure what things are like now after the merger.) (And just to say it explicitly, there is NOTHING wrong with having business motivations.) But other people have other motivations too. For example, the people on the Free software side of things wants a Free (as in Freedom) Flash player.(And honestly, I think their concerns are very important. No one really classifies them as this, but the Free software movement is really a Civil Rights movement. It's about protecting people's freedom. And getting back freedoms we lost. The Free software movement is as important to all this stuff as the hippocratic oath is to the field of medicine. But again,... I don't want to get into a heated debute.) I know if Adobe/Macromedia released the Flash player under the GNU GPL (or a license compatible to it) it would make them happy. But... I have a feeling Adobe/Macromedia might be reluctant to do this given the revenue stream their getting from it. I suppose I'm getting off-topic here though :-) Flash is a proprietary format owned by Adobe/Macromedia.And Adobe/Macromedia restricts what can and can't be done with their free/gratis Flash player.Not to mention Adobe/Macromedia seems to be the only ones allowed to create server side software for Flash... for example, the RTMP protocol is completely closed and proprietary... and it's yet to be seen if Adobe/Macromedia would invoke the DMCA against anyone who reverse engineered it.There are many non-Adobe servers which work with SWF: http://osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects#servers_and_remotingThe RTMP issue is trickier, because Adobe *licenses* third-party codecs (Fraunhoffer, Nelly-Moser, Sorenson, Duck) for inclusion... it's hard todocument what others own.Would it be possible for Adobe/Macromedia to document the non-codec part of it? (And if possible, would Adobe/Macromedia be willing to make that documentation an open specification.) (Going off on a tangent) Thinking about it, would Adobe/Macromedia be willing to use an Free codec (in addition to these). For example, would Adobe/Macromedia be willing to use the Theora codec too?That way there could be an open SWF, RTMP, etc. (Although there'd be the non-open stuff too.) For that cussword proprietary itself, it starts to get fuzzier the closer you look at it:Is 'Open and Shut' actually open-and-shut? (March 2003)http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/jd_forum/jd026.html You're correct. There is alot of ambiguity with the word open. Again, I'll refer you to the following document to let you know what I mean: http://www.goland.org/buyingopenstandards (But again, please keep in mind that I'd probably go even further than what this document says for what I'd say is open.)See ya But having said all that, I do think it is acceptable to have Flash as one of many different options of watching a vlog.But it should NOT be the only one.I agree... arbitrary prohibitions aren't useful. jd[...]-- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.charles @ reptile.casupercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___ Make Televisionhttp://maketelevision.com/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
i said *properly* for IE 6 problems with PNG', see Microsoft's own bug reports: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294714 that hack does not always work, sometimes you need a "hot fix" (oh my, sounds exciting): http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822071 as to IE 7, the Microsoft developer who implemented per-pixel alpha in the PNG support himself admits that things are only "looking good" but notes a few exceptions http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/26/412263.aspx note the interesting comment about how the hack you mention may bite people on upgrading to IE7 http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/26/412263.aspx#412361 remember: no good deed goes unpunished :) Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Hello, IE7 is suppose to finally support transparent and translucent PNG's. But even with older version of IE, you can have transparent and translucent PNG's if you add a little CSS hack. (This hack actually seemed to piss some people off, because there's no reason that MS couldn't have done this by default in IE.) If you run all the images on your page through a certain DirectX filter (using CSS) you can get PNG transparency and translucency. See ya On 4/21/06, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice idea, but given how long it's taken to get support for just JPEG, GIF and PNG in the img tag, i'm not too hopeful about a universal video tag that supports multiple video formats i think we're on our own on this > does IE know how to *properly* display a transparent PNG yet? I doubt it :p Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Hello John, Honestly, I'd rather see browsers (and other software) support video natively. (The same way that, for example, PNG's are supported natively and do NOT require a plug-in to be viewed.) And have it so all you need is to use a video element to embed videos... like the how HTML img element embeds images. (SMIL already has a video element.) I like Flash. (And I really don't want to get into a heated debate but,) (Although alot of people can) Not everyone can view Flash. And (more importantly) Flash isn't an "open format" (like HTML, XML, PNG, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, etc) that everyone has the freedom to implement and do whatever they want with. Flash is a proprietary format owned by Adobe/Macromedia. And Adobe/Macromedia restricts what can and can't be done with their free/gratis Flash player. Not to mention Adobe/Macromedia seems to be the only ones allowed to create server side software for Flash... for example, the RTMP protocol is completely closed and proprietary... and it's yet to be seen if Adobe/Macromedia would invoke the DMCA against anyone who reverse engineered it. But having said all that, I do think it is acceptable to have Flash as one of many different options of watching a vlog. But it should NOT be the only one. You have to have a way for completely Free access to vlogs and Internet TV. (There should NOT be a "tax" on vlogs and Internet TV.) Please, refer to this for something related: http://maketelevision.com/log/why_ogg_theora_matters_for_internet_tv See ya On 4/21/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ FYI: This thread was started as a response to another conversation, in the "What's The Perfect Vlogging Software?" thread. This means that the new topic will be invisible to those whose emailer follows threading conventions, and made the archive misthreaded too: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/39116 Hitting "New" for new conversations and pasting in the Yahoo Groups mailing address is cleaner than hitting "Reply" to start a new discussion, thanks in advance. ] Nathan Miller asked for help in understanding this incoming message:: Hey Nathan, do you realise you've got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It's causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Not knowing the literal alert the person saw makes it hard for any of us to be definitive. If this person is using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, then they are by definition using ActiveX Controls to render some of their content. I visited your site in Firefox/WinXP, and also saw alerts. I have an older version of QuickTime installed, but did not have the codecs necessary to view that QT content. Here's what's going on: When someone visits your video page in a plugin-using browser (Mozilla, Safari, Opera, others) then the server identifies the media type of this extended content via the MIME type abbreviations. The browser then checks which plugins it has that can display this video type, invokes the plugin, and displays the content. In Microsoft's Window browser, the OBJECT tag identifies the ActiveX Control which the designer wants to use (via the CLSID), and
Re: [videoblogging] help with video blogs on my site
Hello,On 4/17/06, nycrayhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everyone, i am new at video blogging but just like myspace.comand other website where you can add the embeded codes to your profilei have been trying to do the same except on another site where they frame of the video shows but does not play or shows the play button.If anyone knows what to do please feel free to help.. thanksSomeone here might be able to help you if gave a link to your site. See ya-- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/___ Make Televisionhttp://maketelevision.com/ 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] help with video blogs on my site
Anyone. Is it my route to http://reptile.ca/ or does this site never actually load? Buehler? On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Someone here might be able to help you if gave a link to your site.
Re: [videoblogging] help with video blogs on my site
ahhh, reptile.ca is not your site. my mistake. On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:31 AM, robert a/k/a r wrote: Anyone. Is it my route to http://reptile.ca/ or does this site never actually load? Buehler? On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Someone here might be able to help you if gave a link to your site.
Re: [videoblogging] help with video blogs on my site
Hello,I took the web server for that domain down for a while. (There's nothing wrong with your route.)GMail turns it into a link automagically. (Regardless of whether I want it to or not.) See yaOn 4/17/06, robert a/k/a r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone. Is it my route to http://reptile.ca/ or does this site neveractually load?Buehler?On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Someone here might be able to help you if gave a link to your site.-- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.casupercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___ Make Televisionhttp://maketelevision.com/ 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] help with video blogs on my site
Hello Robert,reptile.ca is my site.I used to own a consulting company named Reptile. However, I moved out of the consulting business, but I still kept the e-mail address and domain. (I've been working on building a new company the last couple of years.) See yaOn 4/18/06, robert a/k/a r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ahhh, reptile.ca is not your site. my mistake.On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:31 AM, robert a/k/a r wrote: Anyone. Is it my route to http://reptile.ca/ or does this site never actually load? Buehler? On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Someone here might be able to help you if gave a link to your site. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.charles @ reptile.casupercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___ Make Televisionhttp://maketelevision.com/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual 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.
