Re: [videoblogging] Myspace blocking embeds in profile?

2007-01-18 Thread John Dowdell
itself yet. http://mashable.com/2007/01/18/myspace-disables-flash/ 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 privat

Re: [videoblogging] Re: I am quilty of shiny object distraction disorder or SODD

2007-03-07 Thread John Dowdell
to the desktop... you browse to a site same as before, but it asks you if you'd like to use that page for offline use, system tray, doubleclickable, the works. Doesn't require Flash or Flex skills... Ajax or even classic JS/webapp stuff works as well. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe D

Re: [videoblogging] Re: flash video

2007-03-12 Thread John Dowdell
tent, less on the formats. It will take awhile to finish and deploy, though. (Good point about the compression process itself being a key determinant in final video quality, thanks.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macro

Re: [videoblogging] Re: flash video

2007-03-14 Thread John Dowdell
this accurately enough to the product team to make sure they address the correct "chipmunks" scenario, but you can submit the change-request to the team yourself: http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish (It's an old address, but redirects correctly... choose "Flash Player"

Re: [videoblogging] NYPD Arrest Video on Rocketboom

2007-04-02 Thread John Dowdell
Joshua Kinberg wrote: > Working with Jen Myronuk, we produced/edited a short video/field > segment for Rocketboom in response to the NYTimes articles about > illegal NYPD surveillance during the 2004 RNC convention. So... you were the good surveillers, doing surveillance on the bad surveillers, i

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is Flash the answer?

2005-12-09 Thread John Dowdell
h the answer?", I'm actually not real sure of the question, sorry, hard for me to usefully reply on that one yet ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technot

Re: [videoblogging] Flash, video iPod and offering MP3 podcasts

2005-12-21 Thread John Dowdell
; mean any particular aggregator...? (I'm not sure whether you're referring to a particular serverside aggregator, like Google Video or an RSS-notified server, or whether you're concerned about a particular set of clientside readers, etc.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Develo

Re: [videoblogging] Re: I did THIS to embed Flash onto Wordpress

2006-01-05 Thread John Dowdell
when omitting the EMBED tag they document.) 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 be

Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)

2006-04-21 Thread John Dowdell
e 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:

Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX

2006-04-21 Thread John Dowdell
gin' 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 US

Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)

2006-04-21 Thread John Dowdell
t; (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.

Re: [videoblogging] Lobbyists Trying to Destroy Internet Freedom?

2006-05-02 Thread John Dowdell
Monique Danielle wrote: > Got this in my email. Thought I would pass it on: What I'm really looking for is the recipe for those great cookies they sell at Niemann-Marcus, got any of those...? jd SPONSORED LINKS Fire

Re: [videoblogging] Voxmedia wiki: Flash video

2006-05-23 Thread John Dowdell
faithful for the sake of being faithful ;-) (iow, look at the evidence, please don't automatically discount a speaker just because what they say also benefits them.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.c

Re: [videoblogging] Interesting News... (YouTube cam capture)

2006-12-11 Thread John Dowdell
Human Torch, or have snowflakers settle on your arms: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/11/flash_8_webcam_1.html http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/flash_8_webcam.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.m

Re: [videoblogging] 2007: A Year to Start to Worry about Public Policy

2006-12-19 Thread John Dowdell
dex.php/2006/12/18/guardian-column-making-mistakes/ ) I do think we need new rules, but less about what people are allowed to say, more about how we'll each give them our attention and belief or not. Production prohibitions may not be as important as consumption codes-of-conduct...? jd

Re: [videoblogging] Re: A question for this group ...

2006-12-22 Thread John Dowdell
rote: > Yeah, keeping things around is a real problem. I had a chat > with archiving expert Jeff Ubois about just this topic recently. > The first two years of my blog are gone, by the way. Bums me > out that I didn't back anything up back then. Fortunately, Brewster Kahle and

Re: [videoblogging] Flash Player Express Install Experience?

2006-04-04 Thread John Dowdell
lists, but I know that lots of people like to customize any standard routine too. 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 kille

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flash Player Express Install Experience?

2006-04-05 Thread John Dowdell
"Best Practices for Flash Player Detection" http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fp8_detection.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://

Re: [videoblogging] Eolas

2006-04-06 Thread John Dowdell
e. I've seen lots of people hacking together their preferred solutions over the past month, but the best set of general links and recommendations I've seen is still at the Adobe Active Content Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer

Re: [videoblogging] Veoh transcoding feeds?

2006-04-07 Thread John Dowdell
Stephanie Bryant wrote: > Actually, they're outright infringing on my husband's videoblog. I empathize, and I appreciate that you wrote them directly, but how is all this different from the way netculture has treated musicians via MP3, or how the net has treated Hollywood via BitTorrent? jd

Re: [videoblogging] Who owns culture?

2006-04-07 Thread John Dowdell
ght to repurpose them? Suppose they ignore your precious little Creative Commons text, what recourse do you have to that breach of an assumed social contract?) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://we

Re: [videoblogging] Veoh transcoding feeds?

2006-04-07 Thread John Dowdell
ps off your website, blog, search history, financial data, does it matter if they get something other than little green tickets in return? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com

Re: [videoblogging] the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer

2006-04-17 Thread John Dowdell
y=bySimpleSearch&searchsortby=date (I agree with "twhid" that there has been much inaccurate reporting and subsequent confusion on this issue.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs

Re: [videoblogging] the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer

2006-04-17 Thread John Dowdell
s display just as before. Video still plays, no difference. It's only the passing of user events (mouse, keyboard) from browser to plugin which first has that new "click to activate" requirement. (The Adobe site also has screencasts on the browser change, before/after pages you can

Re: [videoblogging] Video web chat with Mac and Windows

2006-04-17 Thread John Dowdell
age of the webcam controls in recent versions of the Adobe Flash Player. Search terms like "flash video chat service" pull up a number of offerings. I haven't evaluated the field personally, but have consistently heard good things about Userplane. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe

Re: [videoblogging] From MOV, WMV, AVI ... to the Flash format

2005-09-07 Thread John Dowdell
flv convert": http://swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=711 jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my

Re: [videoblogging] Everybody Hates Chris

2005-09-27 Thread John Dowdell
it was a general usability and outreach change, rather than a change from a particular client request. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://ww

Re: [videoblogging] flash video formats

2005-10-24 Thread John Dowdell
, it can then specifically call up "device video" formats, such as QVGA MPG4.) The key question remains how much your audience must pay to see your work. Development costs are subsidiary to viewing costs here. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco