On 4/4/07, J. Rhett Aultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. Making QT my main format caused no end of headaches from people > telling me they had trouble with QT, so I decided to go with Flash. > Dreamhost also offers their own Flash transcoder, but I felt that > Blip.tv offered more in the way of social support, such as serving as > the mouthpiece of vloggers when video got scraped against people's CC > licenses, that I went with them for my new show. Blip has its ups and > downs, but I've been pleased overall.
Really!? Any more info on Dreamhost's flash based transcoding? So many possibilities there. I've always been a proponent of building server side transcoding into wordpress as a plugin to allow for one click publishing of videos to slash. There are several open source packages floating around now but I have yet to see one integrated into wordpress as a plugin. Maybe a future version of vPIP perhaps? I must say though... increasinly I see web based distribution as picking a suite of hosting options. I'm a big fan of Blip and vimeo's ability to cross post to many hosting platforms. BTW, somone said they had to have a different blip account for each of several projects!? This is just wrong... unless you're using blip for your vlog too... Blip is best when used as a HOST... with blip's extensive crossposting features to cross post from everything from flickr, to delicious to wordpress, MT, Blogger.com blogs, Archive.org and others. This means you can use blip to host all your videos even if you do have three vlogs and cross post different videos to different vlogs. Blip needs to work more on improving their metadata cross posting though. As aggregators we've found cross-posts from blip to other videoblogging platforms are sorely lacking in meta information such as. -support for cross posted multiple video formats, particularly flash -support for cross posted thumbnails -support for cross posted geographic information and a whole lot more. This is causing people using wordpress, MT, and blogger blogs with blip not to have as nice of video feeds nor have as effective a vlog as they potentially could. That said... blip is still way ahead of the curve, noone else even comes close in my opinion, but there's a long way to go. I'd love to see for example vlogmap.org to have even better tracking geographic blog posts. Someone mentioned http://twittermap.com earlier this week. That sort of metadata exists on blip and elsewhere in the vlogosphere... it's just not making it through all the feeds. The problem isn't great markup for RSS like Media RSS... it's that the metadata is never making it into the feeds. Specifically that users can't mark it up in the code. The easiest example is there is a way to mark tags in your posts... rel="tag", but there is no way to specify a thumbnail for a video, no rel="thumbnail" or other. Anyway, I'm geeking out. Peace, -Mike > I now host Greentime on Blip and have it crosspost to a Wordpress blog I > keep on Dreamhost. It is a pretty good arrangement, and I don't know > that I'd go back to doing everything completely off Dreamhost. > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime > > Daniel Foster wrote: > > >New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should > go > >with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a > host > >such as blip.tv. > > > >This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so > >I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than > >100) as I already have lots of content. > > > >I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I > >could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? > >Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! > > > >Thanks. > > > >* DF > > > > > > > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
