Joshua Kinberg wrote:
I think it is a good tactic. Its good to see the people behind the
software... or the people behind the company for that matter. True
fans/geeks love this stuff. It does build trust and I think this is a
good thing. Of course you are correct in insinuating that it could
Im not Eric and dont know anything about Audioblog, but I googled
ffmpeg flv and got quite a lot of results, so I guess it can be done.
Just one example:
http://www.lvp-site.nl/flv/flvconvert.txt
Im glad flv's can be created by 3rd party software, because I believe
Macromedia really wanted
Steve,
Thanks for the search. I am currently using FFMPEG and I have a lot of problems with it: more than half of the videos are not transcoded well. Some not at all and some without the sound.
Definitely AudioBlog and YouTube have great conversion systems so I wondered what they were using.
YouTube and Audioblog are proprietary services. Why should they give
away their trade secrets because you want to build a competing
service? I don't understand...
-josh
On 9/8/05, Chris Baudry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the search. I am currently using FFMPEG and I
Joshua Kinberg wrote:
YouTube and Audioblog are proprietary services. Why should they give
away their trade secrets because you want to build a competing
service? I don't understand...
perhaps understanding breads customer trust and loyalty?
consider microsoft's channel 9
things are
I still think back to the days when the videoblogging tools were first
appearing, and people got carried away with using the term opensource.
I was cynical then, suggested the term opensource was just being used
as trendy rhetoric by some, or because it seemed in keeping with the
way the
Believe me, I agree with you that knowledge should be free. And in
fact it is quite astounding the amount of free information that is out
there already... with a little googling expertise I'm sure you can
find several FLV encoders that can be used on the server side for
exactly the purpose you
Hi Josh:
It may be a trade secret. Inever thought about that.If it is they can just say so. I would understand their point of view. At the same time it is probably an existing software well known by people who do transcoding.
And in both cases their strength is probably much more in their
Well, many months later and theres still virtually no videoblogging
tools of any kind that are opensource. There are a few exceptions, and
maybe Im out of date, but generally even free services seem to be
keeping their code to themselves.
Are you referring specifically to hosting services
I was specifically referring to software and services made
specifically for videobloggers. ourmedia, fireant, mefeedia, vlogmap
would be examples of the sorts of things I mean.
Now its certainly true that it doesnt make much sense for some of
these services to be opensource, at least on face
this is the first media aggregator to be truly open sourced:
http://openvision.tv/home/home.html
give it some more time, and you will see many more come out as 'yet another media aggregator' similar to p2p apps.
also, as far as I know, ourmedia code is avail... uses drupal and some modules
Your points are good and true.
Unless its just their website being out of date, that openvision link
you sent, that stuff isnt the first to be truly opensourced either as
far as Im concerned, becaause it hasnt happened yet. One of my big
points was the difference between saying something will be
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:43:17 +0200, Michael Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i dont think fireant intends to release code nor should they if they
plan to work out business strategies.
When the first versions of ANT was being developed we were told it would
be open source. The
i hear ya. i suppose their is also a difference between an organized effort to be opensource verses 'sharing code' ;-)
the trend these days is to have an open API, but not share source code.
also, the opensource movement, in relation to code, can be looked
at as overrated. their is prob a 9 to
And here is the solution to the very specific question I asked Eric: there are at least three good commercial solutions: Squeeze from Sorenson,Agility from Anystream and Cleaner from Discreet - they are the ones mentioned on theMacromedia website. They all use a watch folder solution.
Squeeze
i purchased php turbine for my employer about a year ago, but we have not used it at all since the project spec changed.
still is useful, just has not fit into our projects there... but i
would like to use it... except i would need to buy a license myself and
it aint cheap.
Joshua Kinberg wrote:
Microsoft and Channel 9 are in a much different position than these
other two services. Microsoft is educating developers on how to use
Microsoft's tools -- how to develop for the Windows platform with
Microsoft core technologies. That is definitely in Microsoft's
interest,
I have no problem with Microsoft and the way they try to market their products.
I'm not always a big fan of Microsoft usually... I've been an Apple
user my whole life until recently buying a Windows laptop to help test
and develop FireANT on Windows.
I'm glad MIcrosoft chooses to use a videoblog
Joshua Kinberg wrote:
I don't see how me stating the obvoius -- that Microsoft clearly uses
Channel 9 to educate developers about Windows core technologies --
means that I am somehow drinking the Kool-Aid on this one. Sure its
marketing... the best kind of marketing educates people about your
I think it is a good tactic. Its good to see the people behind the
software... or the people behind the company for that matter. True
fans/geeks love this stuff. It does build trust and I think this is a
good thing. Of course you are correct in insinuating that it could be
used to build a false
around the 8/9/05 Chris Baudry mentioned about Re: [videoblogging]
Re: To Eric Rice / Audioblog about file that:
Squeeze is $450. I bet YouTube and AudioBlog are using it. I do not
think it is a trade secret at all. Everyone in the transcoder
business probably knows this... except me. But I am
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