That rocks, Sull. Really nice presentation.
How'd you do it? I'm going to take a look at it via firebug, but most of the time I haven't a clue what I'm looking at. What video display app is it based on? What's running it? I'll take the answer privately if you think that's better. peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:56 PM, @sull wrote: > back when i was playing with the showinabox people, one of my > propositions was to utilize your wordpress rss feed (or other xml > flavor) using the simplepie wordpress plugin (parser) and then build > templates however you want and inject whatever data from the feed that > you want. this was an alternative to staying within the confines of > the wordpress theming engine. > > an example of this is located here: http://videobloggers.org/vlogwall/ > although this is not using the wordpress feed, instead using a > mefeedia feed. > > the nice thing about it is that you can leave your blog as is and have > an alternative presentation of your content made available to > visitors. > > i also like just uisng the flash player + playlisting approach with > some javascript api usage to handle contextual content and comments > etc. > > sull > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM, J. N. P. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I had a project last year that actually didn't went forward > enough to > > go public, but i had started building the concept and tried the > geeky > > details of it. > > > > What i ended up doing was: > > > > 1) The wordpress was used to create the content with the categories > > and tags and from that i extracted various things: > > 1.1) (video) RSS per categorie; > > 1.2) archives with the videos on it just as wordpress show content > > by categories; > > 1.3) the wordpress view of things is the second way of watch/search > > the content (very blog like always) > > > > 2) But i took the various RSS and with those i created a first page > > that is actually the Jeroen FLV player ( > > http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player > > ), because that playes is very flexible and is capable of being feed > > with our RSS wordpress... I think you can build a nice TV like that. > > > > In alternative you could just use the play lists from blip and > use the > > blip player, but doing it the other way you can integrate the flash > > player in such a way that when you are playing a particular video > you > > end up with that wordpress post/article also showing up somewhere > in a > > frame, so that you can still have comments and such. > > > > This concept is nothing new and unfortunately i never build it up > > completely to test it further but i hope some day i will have a new > > project to build and test it further and hopefully add more to this > > conversation theme. > > > > thats my 2 cents of Euro. ;) > > > > Rgds, > > ZN > > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 17:20 , Jay dedman wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rupert <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> One of the options I'm considering is still using my WP > backend, and > >>> having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots > >>> leading to different videos, categories & pages - either a picture > >>> that I could either draw & scan & make amendments to, or a collage > >>> I'd make in Illustrator/Photoshop. > >>> I've made some sites for clients like this - eg http:// > >>> www.sydneyraewhite.com - it'd be like a manual version of your > drag > >>> & drop desktop idea, Jay. > >> > >> im looking forward t what people come up with. > >> http://www.vbs.tv/ is another example of making the page looks > >> interesting. > >> (though i hate the autoload video). > >> the whole background image is part of the actual function of the > page. > >> > >> Jay > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://jaydedman.com > >> 917 371 6790 > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
