Topic - Online Video & embed
How to Fix Aspect Ratio on Youtube Videos
Long, long ago, YouTube was 4:3 only. Then the age of widescreen came and so they changed everything to 16:9. This left many videos in a square peg oblong hole situation (as in the video just doesn’t fit the player window properly). So here are a few ways that you can change the aspect ratio on your YouTube videos and NOT have to re-upload.
Five Launches Syndicated Player With Brightcove Platform
Five, the UK broadcast company, has taken the plunge into online ad-supported video for embedding on other websites. They are the first broadcaster in the country to do so and look to lead the way for catch-up viewing on the web.
Creating Persuasive Interactive Video for E-Commerce
There’s been a lot of buzz recently in the blogosphere surrounding the use of interactive elements to drive up the performance of video, so it begs the question – how should video interactivity be applied to e-commerce video? The answer, I believe, is that interactive techniques should be applied to video when shoppers are both highly motivated to engage in a behavior we as marketers are trying to drive (usually, but not always, this is a purchase), and when those same shoppers simultaneously have a high ability to complete the behavior.
Dailymotion Supports Open Video Formats
Dailymotion, you know, the video entertainment site where you can share your videos on pretty much almost any topic, is now accepting Open Video formats and HTML tags.
Vimeo is Better Than YouTube For Sharing Video?
Someone recently dropped me a line to tell me that Vimeo was better than YouTube. Me, being the easy-going guy I am, said “OK.” Of course this might have been a clever plot on their part to get me to check it out for one reason or another. Again, I’m easy-going, so I did.
Online Video Dating Widget, No Joke
CAMEyeO, Inc. has released their online video dating widget, FaCetalk. Come on, we can’t makes this stuff up. Well we can, but this isn’t one of those times so check it out.
I’m going to pare down one of the longest press releases I’ve ever seen (their PR guy must be paid per word) and distill it into the most basic of information for you. faCetalk is a complete, “Out-Of-The-Box” online video dating component with built-in date scheduling and anonymous communication features ready for implementation in online dating service websites.
Video Blogging Gets Easy – Wordpress Steps up with VideoPress
A picture is worth a thousand words. According to Grant a video is worth millions. So when the content management system (CMS) that is used in millions of websites around the planet switches over to video you can expect billions of words to be transformed into video.
Bits on the Run Updates Video CMS Services and Site
Bits on the Run has been doing some work to update their service. After about a year it seems like they’ve got over 10,000 users now and a goodly amount of video to serve up. In order to serve that video up around the planet without problems they’ve teamed up with BitGravity CDN (content delivery network). Their presence at dozens of datacenters around the world ensures Bits on the Run users that their video will always be delivered instantly and swiftly, no matter where the audience is located.
Remove Video Title & Ratings Info in YouTube’s Embedded Player
Today, Youtube introduced another small change to the Youtube emdedded player. Youtube videos that are embedded within pages will now display a prominent title of the video along with the video ratings information at the top of the embedded player.
JW Player & Long Tail Video Platform Overview – The #1 Open Source Video Player
Longtail Video was co-founded by Jeroen “JW” Wijering and started with his incredibly popular open-source JWplayer embeddable media player that has been downloaded more than 7 million times since 2005. In fact, the JWPlayer was the first player used by online video powerhouse YouTube, purchased from Jeroen for $20 Euros. Over the years the JW player has grown, expanded and increased in versatility and usability. It’s even fully skinnable now so you can make it look exactly how you need it to and has a plug-in and modular architecture.
Youtube HD Update – Large High-Definition Video Player Layout
A few weeks back, we posted news about the fact that Youtube was testing HD (high-definition) video playback. Shortly after that, Youtube officially launched HD video playback on their site. When it was first launched, videos in HD would play within the new widescreen 16:9 default player on Youtube. Now, when you choose the HD playback, the layout of the page is modified to display a much larger video player that expands the width of the page. The new video size is a huge 855*480 pixels (actual resolution is 1280×720) and the player is 855*505 pixels. Apparently this change was made back on December 5, but some users are just now seeing the update.
Hulu Delivers Primetime Online Video to Social Networks
For the first time and for free, social network users will be able to embed and watch entire seasons of popular shows on their MySpace.com and Facebook pages using SplashCast’s “social TV player” technology. As more TV viewers continue to find their favorite shows online, Hulu, an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites for free, anytime in the U.S., is teaming with content syndication service SplashCast® to distribute primetime television on MySpace.com and Facebook. Whenever new episodes are available on Hulu, SplashCast automatically syndicates the content directly to a viewer’s social network pages. Viewers also have access to the entire network of premium channels after installing a single SplashCast player. Additionally, viewers will be able to meet and interact with other fans watching the same shows.
