Im glad crowdabout have implemented a fully embeddable version of their exciting features. I considered using them for my videoblogweek stuff, but I rushed the hosting/formats side of things, and personally I feel like crowdabouts sucess might be hampered by their choice of layout of their features visually. Id like a smaller version of thee player where the stuff that currently opens in windows at the side, is overlayed on top of the video. And a smaller timeline thats still just as functional because it can be zoomed in or out when theres a lot of conversation markers on a clip. But thats would take quite a bit of work to achieve all that Im sure. I am a huge fan of the concept, thats for sure, just not the GUI.
Dont give me too much credit for talking about 'whole blog in a player' stuff for ages, its only been a month or so I guess. Anyway it does seem to be happening, but its unclear how much of the blog will make it into mainstream implementations of this sort of thing, so it would be nice if some vloggers who care about the blog part could help add momentum for this stuff. Im up for it, I enjoyed vlogging the other week and Im tired of listening to myself waffle and never do anything, . But right now when I go to get Flash I seem to be stuck ina bad moment before the new version of flash is released. Doh, can I get a trial of the previous version? Meanwhile on the radar of whats out there in terms of code people can download and install themselves, some fine efforts such as vPiP seem rather more closed when it comes to the flash player, which is fair enough, thats up to them. So Ive een seeign what else is out ther, this looks promising: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player This wordpress plugin version of that is currently floating my boat, off to have a look at it in more detail: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=20 Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a lot of these players coming out now. > > If it were possible to create permalinks so that a link would take > you to the site AND make the player play a certain episode, that'd be > perfect. > > Crowdabout.us have recently released a similar large Show player - 2 > weeks ago - and allowed anonymous commenting without logging into > their site (which you had to do before). So you and your viewers can > use their commenting and posting system, putting information and > conversations at specific points along the timeline of your videos > (with great RSS). I strongly advise you to check it out. It runs > straight off your Blip RSS - they just pull in your flv files from > Blip and then allow their commenting. > > At the moment, though, I want people to be able to link to specific > episodes, not just watch the latest by default. > > I wrote to Crowdabout.us and asked them if they could produce another > player, which allowed specific episodes to be played within > individual permalinked blog posts. I hope they're going to do it. > If they do, I will switch straightaway to using their players. The > show player on the Home page and the individual players within the > individual post pages. > > This kind of functionality is moving towards what Steve Elbows has > talked about here for a long time and which I am always very excited > about the possibility of - everything contained within one player - a > multipurpose blog tool. > > The idea of making the videos themselves richer with easy custom > hyperlinks and hotspots is also something I salivate over. > > I think people will start to build all this stuff in as the more > advanced players get more popular. Wish it would all happen right > now, though. Technologically, I can't see any reason why it > shouldn't. Surely just a question of incentive, energy and > inspiration. Maybe Elbows will come up with some blueprints - now > he's overcome his Flashphobia ;) If I can help at all, even just as > a sounding board, let me know. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > On 15 Apr 2007, at 19:45, joshpaul wrote: > > Yes, metadata is key. There are already hooks available, it just > seems that > the vast majority of people aren't using them. In other words, the major > video containers provide methods to embed metadata, so that it > travels with > the file itself. > > Maybe this is something the video vertigo team would be willing to > tackle? ( > i.e. key/value pairs) > > On 4/15/07, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected] <videoblogging% > 40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Steve Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > > > Some details here: > > > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > I think this is probably one of the most important examples of where > > video is headed: the containment of all information in the video > > container. Containing descriptive text, links, comments, etc. Video > > travels outside the website to mobile devices, internet TVs, etc. It > > needs to contain all it's information along the way and this feature > > shows this capability. > > > > -- Enric > > -======- > > http://cirne.com > > > > > > > > -- > joshpaul > > o: 818-237-5200 > c: 818-667-0900 > w: joshpaul.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
