Glad to see the question. Glad to here people using democracy and blip together.
more comments below. On 3/29/07, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a bad question--one of the purposes of this list is for newbie > questions. > > Actually I think the premise of your question is slightly off. Blip > doesn't "use" the Democracy Player, you use the Democracy Player to > get Blip.tv content. You can also use other aggregators like FireAnt > and iTunes to get Blip.tv content. If you subscribe to a Blip feed > directly in iTunes and configure ipod to automatically sync podcasts > then your Blip.tv content will make it to your ipod as podcasts. > > I should also point out that this only works when the original > content is in an ipod compatible format. Blip.tv doesn't require all > their users to submit or publish iPod compatible files so not > everything from blip will necessarily work on your ipod. I'd like to add that iTunes cannot convert all videos to an ipod compatible format also. It will not play or convert WMV's or SWF's which are two of the most common formats. THat said... wmv's are statistically pretty rare among videoblogs. Just how rare I don't know... and even rarer perhaps among blip users. Flash is also pretty oncommon in subscription feeds too depending on how advanced you are and where you look. For example... I doubt there are even a handful of feeds coming from blip that have a Flash as the default video format coming from RSS, and if you look in the iTunes podcasting directory you'll certainly find none. This is because flash is usualy used only for web based playback and is not easily downloadable and syndicateable, especially to 3rd party hardware. On the other hand the biggest video site on the web, Youtube ONLY offers Flash in their feeds. Both Mefeedia and Democracy do support flash and I can't speak for democracy, but on Mefeedia the probability of finding video feeds that are using flash is increasingly pretty rapidly, while WMV's and all other non-Quicktime/non-iTunes/non-iPod compatible formats are on the decrease. In fact... "just what formats are vloggers using?" is a great question for Frank Sinton over at mefeedia.com. I can think of noone else who can dig up such info as to the state of the video blogging space. Perhaps he'll read this and do a little reasearch, take a slice of all the last months activity and let us here know what percentage of what videoblogs and podcasts were in what format. I think MANY here would really like to know. All this is to say. Gromik, welcome to the videoblogging group... great question... I hope you like democracy and blip... and if you have any videos that iTunes won't convert to an iPod compatible format on the fly or any trouble whatsoever let us know. We're definitely interested. Also... one last thing... Not that there could be anything better then Democracy --> iTunes --> iPod... for watching vlogs on your iPod. But does anyone else have any solutions that might cover 100% of the video formats and work simpler for vlog aggregation and watching on your ipod? I assume you're on mac right Gromik? While it's a superb competitor to Democracy I don't think the mac version of Fireant.tv has transcoding either. Also... Can anyone verify wether you have to have Quicktime Pro or not in order for iTunes to automatically convert video formats to an ipod compatible format? -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog > Bill Streeter > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS > www.lofistl.com > www.billstreeter.net > > --- In [email protected], Gromik Tohoku > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Blip.tv uses democracy player as a distribution for > > videoblog films. > > > > I was wondering once I download a movie via democracy > > player, can I upload it on my iPod? > > > > sorry this is a really newbie question. > > > > Thanks for providing an answer, > > sincerely > > Nicolas > > > > -------------------- > > Gromik Nicolas > > Tohoku University > > Sendai, Japan > > fax=81-22-7647 > > ==================== > > http://www.filmedworld.com/page.php?3 > > http://nag-productions.blip.tv/? > > http://sendai-city-tourism-tohoku-university.blip.tv/ > > http://eflresources.wikispaces.com/ > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends > http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
