> I would guess that its partly the extra work the publisher has to go through > like you say, but also some other technical issues to do with how the plugin > works in practice, along with whatever the story is regarding what happened > to ShowInABox and other video module plugins that it tried to promote, most > of which Ive long since forgotten. What remains active of these prior > efforts? There was some very nice functionality in these things but they > needed polishing to gain wider use.
People got understandably burnt out developing themes and plugins. Also it was a time when Wordpress was updating itself every couple weeks. Too difficult to keep up. Eric (aka UnholyKnight) was cool enough to update recently the plugins for the latest Wordpress: http://unholyknight.com/VideoWrangler/ But as youve mentioned, commercial services have come along way to providing the services people want. David Jones just clued me into how easy Youtube has made viewing. Upload one version and they trasncode into multiple formats, plus seem to provide different RSS feeds for different devices. That's all we were ever trying to do with http://showinabox.tv/ > I wanted stuff to evolve whereby people could mix a variety of different > services from different companies together in a standard and modulaar way, > where it would be trivial to switch service providers for any part of the > system without having a nightmare, where the user had full control over their > data, and where there was still room for indie developers to add > functionality to the basic service offerings. Well in reality we sometimes > get sort of some of the above, but not in a way that makes me feel there is a > cohesive platform >I can build on without placing undue trust on a single > corporate platform such as writing a facebook app or whatever. I always wanted to build a frontend for Amazon S3. It'd be an app that connected to your S3 account. You'd just drag a video into the app...and it'd transcode and upload the video into multiple versions. It'd provide a nice interface to your library of videos, including DV/HD copies of all your work. Hosting is cheap enough to do this. So instead of relying on free commercial hosting sites, you'd have control. Not sure if many people want this control though. Youtube makes it so easy. Plus some people seem to actually be making money from Adsense through Youtube. > Never mind, personally Im hungry to work on something so shall likely return > to Drupal and see what can be done with that in conjunction with video > hosting services & html5. I like the possibilities in HTML5. What will be interesting is if we can find different ways to tell stories beyond just a short video posted in a Flash player. All this could be more than just TV on the internet. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
