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Is Ogg Theora The Savior of Online Video?

Ogg Theora, the magical, mystical, savior of the online video movement? Tapped to be part of the Open Video Standards and set to take its position at center stage in the push for widespread online video acceptance, but is it all it can be and ...

Brightcove Dives Into Mobile Video With Qik

Brightcove, has decided to test the waters of mobile video and determined that it's warm enough to dive into. So they recently announced, via their blog, that Qik has signed on as a partner service.

How To Fix Aspect Ratio On Youtube Videos - Remove Black Bars

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 ...

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 ...

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. Thanks to Mozilla the site will now support Ogg video files and is the first major video ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JW Player and Long Tail Video Platform Overview - The #1 Open Source Video Player

http://www.reelseo.com/long-tail-video/ - Long Tail Video Ad Solutions - An overview of longtailvideo.com and the JW Players - JW FLV Player and JW Media Players.

Remove Video Title and 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.

Upload HD Videos to Youtube and Embed High-definition Youtube Videos

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 ...

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, ...

Youtube Embed Tip - Remove Embedded Player Search

As you know, many video content producers are utilizing free hosting platforms and video sharing websites like Youtube to power online video on their own websites.  There are clearly many benefits to utilizing these services, primarily the fact that video hosting is free and reliable. ...