Re: [videoblogging] NYPD Arrest Video on Rocketboom
Joshua Kinberg wrote: Working with Jen Myronuk, we produced/edited a short video/field segment for Rocketboom in response to the NYTimes articles about illegal NYPD surveillance during the 2004 RNC convention. So... you were the good surveillers, doing surveillance on the bad surveillers, is that it...? (Me, I think that if you're in the public record, you're in the public record, and it's strange to try to apply different rules to different people. But I'm probably being insufficiently nuanced again) jd
Re: [videoblogging] Re: flash video
caroosky wrote: Now, if only the portable device manufacturers would get on the ball. I'd love to load up a portable media device with a bunch of flash video from YouTube, Revver, Blip and others... This is coming, but it's not here yet. The next version of the Adobe Flash Lite engine will include support for regular web-video formats: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200702/021207FlashVideo.html Right now Adobe Flash Lite 2 is being baked into phones, and this supports device video, where the Player asks the operating system to play a video, and where different devices could require different video formats. The next version of Adobe Flash Lite will smooth over the differences between pocket devices, and also smooth over the difference between pocket devices and laptop computers, so that you can focus more on your content, less on the formats. It will take awhile to finish and deploy, though. (Good point about the compression process itself being a key determinant in final video quality, thanks.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: I am quilty of shiny object distraction disorder or SODD
Steve Watkins wrote: Adobe Apollo stuff would be of particular interest to me if I was already versed in Flash and/or Flex development. Sidenote: The Adobe Apollo project, due to enter preview release on labs.adobe.com real soon now, is a way to bring either SWF or HTML/JS work to the desktop... you browse to a site same as before, but it asks you if you'd like to use that page for offline use, system tray, doubleclickable, the works. Doesn't require Flash or Flex skills... Ajax or even classic JS/webapp stuff works as well. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: A question for this group ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here in Japan most people feel no desire to immortalize themselves outside of their small circle. Maybe it's a vestige of Buddhist fatalism. Deru kugi wa utareru translates as the nail which sticks out gets hammered down, similar to the tall poppy saying in Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome Tom Gosse wrote: My former employer decided to move all their documentation (procedures, schematics, etc) to electronic media and thrash all the paper copies. In less than five years they found they had WordPerfect files they couldn't open, and Adobe dxf files that wouldn't open in newer versions of AutoCAD. The engineers on board the USS Ronald Reagan are having problems with the later today. Ongoing support for fileformats is indeed a real issue. Autodesk's Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) has changed dramatically over the years, tied as it is to the AutoCAD application (a few Adobe apps have worked with DXF, but not many). There's a particular profile of Adobe's PDF format which became an ISO standard for archiving purposes... it removes the collaboration, authentication, media features of PDF specifically for longterm storage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A For video, you might want to archive uncompressed versions, beyond just the compressed deliverable versions... gives more options into the future. Robert Scoble wrote: Yeah, keeping things around is a real problem. I had a chat with archiving expert Jeff Ubois about just this topic recently. The first two years of my blog are gone, by the way. Bums me out that I didn't back anything up back then. Fortunately, Brewster Kahle and crew did: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://scobleizer.manilasites.com jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [videoblogging] 2007: A Year to Start to Worry about Public Policy
Jeff Pulver wrote: The reason I mention this here on this list is that sometime in the next year or so, with all of the new found attention this space is getting and will continue to get, I fully expect some lobbyists to whisper to someone of political influence in the US or elsewhere to come forward once again and try to declare that there is very little difference between the experience a consumer has with TV on the Net as compared to TV delivered by Broadcast, Cable or Satellite and that people who deliver TV over the Net should be subjected to some of the legacy rules that everyone else who is in the broadcasting industry needs to deal with. Chances are that such persons who start this fire will be paid lobbyists who are trying to take a preemptive strike against the future evolution of this emerging industry sector. This may be true... it is in lobbyists' interest to think this way. But Fairness Doctrine and the rest came out of an age of communicational scarcity, and the rules don't seem like they'd flex far enough to cover the problems of our current age of overabundance. Still, logic may not have much to do with it... we've already seen the BBC construct a story on conduct rules for bloggers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6191988.stm (Ironically, that story itself was a forgery, as shown by, gasp, bloggers: http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/12/18/guardian-column-making-mistakes/ ) I do think we need new rules, but less about what people are allowed to say, more about how we'll each give them our attention and belief or not. Production prohibitions may not be as important as consumption codes-of-conduct...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [videoblogging] Interesting News... (YouTube cam capture)
sull wrote: blogcheese.com has had there videoblogging by webcam service out for probably almost 2 years now. johnleeke wrote: Chris Car in Montreal has had his video posting website: http://stars-of-the-web.net/en up for nearly a year, where you can now post replies by audio and video too. This is vloging and video replies directly from your webcam. That's true... the Macromedia Flash Communications Server (now the Adobe Flash Media Server) has enabled two-way audio/video communication for years. The first person to do a commenting app like this was Phillip Kerman, back in May 2002: http://www.phillipkerman.com/machine/ For me, the signficance of this piece of YouTube news is the movement past static, one-way video, into true multi-party, interactive communications. The TV model helped during the first stages of casual video, but there's an awful lot of room to grow yet. Grant Skinner has been doing some of the most innovative interactive webcam work... if you've got a webcam on your computer, and a recent version of Adobe Flash Player 9, then see how he adds interactive graphics programming to turn you into The Human Torch, or have snowflakers settle on your arms: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/11/flash_8_webcam_1.html http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/flash_8_webcam.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [videoblogging] Lobbyists Trying to Destroy Internet Freedom?
Monique Danielle wrote: Got this in my email. Thought I would pass it on: What I'm really looking for is the recipe for those great cookies they sell at Niemann-Marcus, got any of those...? jd SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
[ FYI: This thread was started as a response to another conversation, in the What's The Perfect Vlogging Software? thread. This means that the new topic will be invisible to those whose emailer follows threading conventions, and made the archive misthreaded too: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/39116 Hitting New for new conversations and pasting in the Yahoo Groups mailing address is cleaner than hitting Reply to start a new discussion, thanks in advance. ] Nathan Miller asked for help in understanding this incoming message:: Hey Nathan, do you realise you’ve got ActiveX employed on your Web site? It’s causing these really annoying pop-up messages to appear in my browser every time I access your page. I use IE 6. Can you do something about this? Not knowing the literal alert the person saw makes it hard for any of us to be definitive. If this person is using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, then they are by definition using ActiveX Controls to render some of their content. I visited your site in Firefox/WinXP, and also saw alerts. I have an older version of QuickTime installed, but did not have the codecs necessary to view that QT content. Here's what's going on: When someone visits your video page in a plugin-using browser (Mozilla, Safari, Opera, others) then the server identifies the media type of this extended content via the MIME type abbreviations. The browser then checks which plugins it has that can display this video type, invokes the plugin, and displays the content. In Microsoft's Window browser, the OBJECT tag identifies the ActiveX Control which the designer wants to use (via the CLSID), and identifies any minimum version (via the CODEBASE argument). In both cases, the browser will throw up an alert if the plugin or control is not installed. IE/Win will also do a version check, and will also do a background-download of the necessary Control. Some plugins (such as QuickTime, I believe) will also throw up their own alert if the renderer is too old to render more modern content. Bottom line: If your visitor's browser cannot yet render your content, they will see an alert, and the browser will try to guide them to an updated browser extension, in either Netscape Plugin or ActiveX wrapper. What to do? This person will be seeing lots of similar alerts in IE/Win... it's not solely your responsibility. Your *site* doesn't use ActiveX so much as his *browser* uses ActiveX, and your site tries to accommodate their choice. How to minimize? This is self-serving of me, admitted, but it's easiest to use video in the Adobe Flash video architecture. More people have this browser extension than any other, and more people have the current version than have the current versions of any other WWW technology. This will not eliminate all browser-incapability alerts, but will reduce them greatly... in its first three months over 50% of consumers tested had already updated to Flash Player 8, so the odds are much better that your audience will not see any update alerts. Sorry I took so long, but I hope the above background helps figure out what they're objecting to. (And like other folks in this thread, I don't see any connection to the Eolas behavior change in IE/Win... only commonality seems to be the word ActiveX in the title.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX
Michael Verdi wrote: If the alert that they user is seeing is related to the recent IE security update then won't they see it even if the video is Flash since it will use the Object tag? huh? Let me pour another cup of coffee here ;-) [ Later: ah, got it, I think... for Is use of Flash affected by the recent Microsoft browser change? then yes, it is, with lots more info here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent ] When I go to a page where someone has posted a flash movie with code they get from blip I get a Click to activate and use this control message when I mouse over it. Also, for example the website for my theater uses flash for thier navagation and I get that same thing on each page I navagate too. The solution I beleive lies not in what format you choose but in how you write it into the page. The way I understand it and have experienced it so far is that any use of the Object, Embed or Applet tags gets you the alert in IE 6. Hmm, if an underlying question Is the new 'click to activate' tooltip in Microsoft Internet Explorer like the 'missing plugin' or 'update your plugin' alerts browsers sometime show?, then I don't think so... different issues. But I'm not sure I pulled the right question-mark out of the paragraph of periods. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Help with ActiveX (is: browser extension alerts)
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: And (more importantly) Flash isn't an open format (like HTML, XML, PNG, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, etc) that everyone has the freedom to implement and do whatever they want with. Actually, since about 1998 or so, anyone can create SWF: http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/developer/ What's controlled is the Macromedia source code for the rendering engine, so that there aren't the forking and compatibility difficulties we see among the various WWW browsers. Flash is a proprietary format owned by Adobe/Macromedia. And Adobe/Macromedia restricts what can and can't be done with their free/gratis Flash player. Not to mention Adobe/Macromedia seems to be the only ones allowed to create server side software for Flash... for example, the RTMP protocol is completely closed and proprietary... and it's yet to be seen if Adobe/Macromedia would invoke the DMCA against anyone who reverse engineered it. There are many non-Adobe servers which work with SWF: http://osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects#servers_and_remoting The RTMP issue is trickier, because Adobe *licenses* third-party codecs (Fraunhoffer, Nelly-Moser, Sorenson, Duck) for inclusion... it's hard to document what others own. For that cussword proprietary itself, it starts to get fuzzier the closer you look at it: Is 'Open and Shut' actually open-and-shut? (March 2003) http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/jd_forum/jd026.html But having said all that, I do think it is acceptable to have Flash as one of many different options of watching a vlog. But it should NOT be the only one. I agree... arbitrary prohibitions aren't useful. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer
robert a/k/a r wrote: Does the Microsoft problem extend to the embed for Flash? Any use of OBJECT, EMBED, or APPLET tags in updated Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and beta IE7 will display just as before, but will require an initial click before accepting user interactivity. This is similar to how you'd have to click an extension in any browser in order to achieve focus for keystrokes. The general solution is to dynamically write the OBJECT and EMBED tags from an external JavaScript file. This is similar to how advertisers and standardistas already dynamically write their tags. FAQs, scripts, updates, examples, comparisons, test pages and more: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ Ongoing news: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mtadmin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=28search=eolas http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/index.cfm?searchterms=eolasquery=bySimpleSearchsearchsortby=date (I agree with twhid that there has been much inaccurate reporting and subsequent confusion on this issue.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] the activex/eolas patent bug in Explorer
Ryan Ozawa wrote: I've started a wiki page where, hopefully, we can collaboratively build something directed specifically at vloggers to help 'em understand this whole mess, and implement various workarounds: http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/MSIE_Active_Content_Issue Thanks. I tried to correct this line, but realized I would need to do Yet Another Password to do so: active content that is embedded in HTML pages in certain ways will not play or respond to user input until users click to specifically activate the control. Actually, content does display just as before. Video still plays, no difference. It's only the passing of user events (mouse, keyboard) from browser to plugin which first has that new click to activate requirement. (The Adobe site also has screencasts on the browser change, before/after pages you can test, etc.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Video web chat with Mac and Windows
Richard wrote: What is the best way to have a video web chat with Mac and Windows? I'm not sure of the best way (seems like the solution would be tied to the problem), but I do know that many services now offer platform-neutral, no-install video chatting by taking advantage of the webcam controls in recent versions of the Adobe Flash Player. Search terms like flash video chat service pull up a number of offerings. I haven't evaluated the field personally, but have consistently heard good things about Userplane. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Veoh transcoding feeds?
Stephanie Bryant wrote: Actually, they're outright infringing on my husband's videoblog. I empathize, and I appreciate that you wrote them directly, but how is all this different from the way netculture has treated musicians via MP3, or how the net has treated Hollywood via BitTorrent? jd Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Who owns culture?
David Dundas wrote: Lawrence Lessig did an introductory talk at the New York Public Library about copyright law and technology on April 7, 2005. He says that copyright laws stifle creativity, and democracy. It's an idea that begs the question. Would you stop creating what you create if someone could just take it and do whatever they wanted with it? Like, say, the Veoh issue...? Some folks seem to conjugate the verb I have privacy rights, you have terms-of-service, he has evil DRM. Humans produce digital bits, and to be full citizens I think we need to respect the privacy/copyright decisions of others. (I think the Sonny Bono extensions to US copyright law were pretty bogus, but more and more I'm realizing that creativity and privacy are inextricably linked... if you create some digital bits, does that mean anyone else has the right to repurpose them? Suppose they ignore your precious little Creative Commons text, what recourse do you have to that breach of an assumed social contract?) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Veoh transcoding feeds?
Peter Van Dijck wrote: Let's say I rip my Prince CD's (yes, I have some), transcode them into crappy quality, then put them online at peterprice.com and put ads around them? That's qualitatively and legally different from me downloading a song and listening to it on my iPod. Little green tickets of money are one way to be selfish. Being the center of attention is another way to be selfish. There are incentives for Slashdot and Digg, just as for any commercial entity. You're still not respecting the rights of creators. If someone rips off your website, blog, search history, financial data, does it matter if they get something other than little green tickets in return? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Eolas
Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: Should we be concerned about Microsoft's making changes to IE to conform to the Eolas decision? I haven't installed the optional Microsoft update to IE6 yet (or the IE7 beta), but from all I've heard, video plays just the same as before... it's interactivity which requires that initial click before receiving focus. If you've got a pause/play/volume interface within your video (as with FLV skins) then someone in a new Microsoft system will see a Please click message during mouseover, and then they'll be able to shuttle the video. (I'm not sure what happens if you use house chrome for playback controls, a la QuickTime, Real, or WMP... suspect it's the same.) Summary: Should display fine regardless, but it's interactivity with the video which is at the center of the dispute. I've seen lots of people hacking together their preferred solutions over the past month, but the best set of general links and recommendations I've seen is still at the Adobe Active Content Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flash Player Express Install Experience?
Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: The major problem I know of with Express Install is the admin permissions on networks. Yes, that's true... if someone does not have permission to change the machine they're using, then changing it becomes difficult. Is this the core of the conversation, right here...? I have no idea in the world how to implement the FlashObject code into my blogs or videos. Hmm, if the core of this conversation is instead How can I set up Express Install for auto-updating the Flash Player? then does this article help? Best Practices for Flash Player Detection http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fp8_detection.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Flash Player Express Install Experience?
Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: Has anyone had any experience using the Express Install to update to Flash 8 Players? I am using TypePad with Flash 8 videos and am very pleased with the way it is working out. The only problem is that some of the public are having problems updating to the new Flash player. There are Windows IE issues, etc. I'm not sure what error text members of your audience have seen, but if I were guessing, it would be about admin permissions on that computer, that seems to be the most frequent issue these days. But there's a short guide to Windows troubleshooting here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15511#install_win I would like to stick with the Flash 8 videos because the quality is so good and I know that pretty soon the Flash 8 market penetration will be enough to get the players out there. I think I am just a bit ahead of the curve right now. Maybe not. ;-) Here's a chronology of some really amazing adoption rates: Aug 31 05: Flash Player 8 released to general public, and immediately sees 4-5 million *completed* installations per day. Dec 15 05: NPD/MediaMetrix discovers 50% of consumers tested could see SWF8 content. Today: The March consumer audit won't be live on the site for awhile yet, but the new On2 codec should be up about 70% general consumer viewability by now, I'd wager. Results of the December consumer audit: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html There is some FlashObject code that developers are using to generate an Express Install that seems to work very well and solves the update problems. I have no idea in the world what to do with it and I cannot, quite frankly, make heads or tails of most of links that deal with it. I want to, somehow, get it into TypePad. Anyone have any experience with this? Not sure... got link? The Express Install docs on the Adobe site seems to be working pretty smoothly for people on the mailing lists, but I know that lots of people like to customize any standard routine too. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: I did THIS to embed Flash onto Wordpress
Andreas Haugstrup wrote: It's still not valid. Hiding the tags from the validator doesn't make the code valid. object might be made valid xhtml, but embed can never be valid xhtml. That's because the HTML 4.0 spec itself did not validate to existing browsers -- EMBED was used before Microsoft introduced OBJECT, and the W3C later followed a form of OBJECT but without advice on bringing the world's existing browsers on board. (Me, I don't care about whatever tag the browsers use for extended content, just so long as it calls up the Netscape Plugin correctly, without loss of other functionality. Drew's Satay article a few years back noted how some of the current browsers did with only OBJECT, but he only tested for visibility, not for adverse effects on streaming, printing, data-transfer or other issues in the varied browsers when omitting the EMBED tag they document.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Flash, video iPod and offering MP3 podcasts
bucqui8 wrote: I videoblog for the Detroit News political blog - http://spartanedge.com/blogs/detroitnews/index.html - But because I use Flash, it seems that I can't get on on aggregators. Is that still true? I'm not sure. Does the aggregators mean any particular aggregator...? (I'm not sure whether you're referring to a particular serverside aggregator, like Google Video or an RSS-notified server, or whether you're concerned about a particular set of clientside readers, etc.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is Flash the answer?
Background info below: What plug in version of flash does the user need? 7 or 8? Macromedia Flash Player 6 and above include the Sorenson Sparc video codec, and Macromedia Flash Player 8 also includes the On2 VP6 video codec. (Audio codecs include MP3, Nelly-Moser for speech, one or two others... audio decompression has been pretty stable the last few versions.) Pretty much anyone on the web has FP6 or above... FP8 has seen massive, massive installaiton rates, already above Firefox or Windows XP SP2, although there hasn't been time for consumer audits of SWF8 viewability yet. People do complain that they'd like a scrubber/progress bar and other video controls. The webs search term flv skins pulls up a bunch of such controls (no coding necessary)... the term flv player pulls up an overlapping set of sites with such resources. what process do you use to create your videos? Could you give me some inside on how can I start? Here's a Flash Video Learning Guide and many, many more resources: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/video.html Making flash video, embedding it inside a SWF controller, and then posting it on a blog is not easy for a casual user who has no experience. Not easy to learn a general authoring tool, true, but lots and lots of newbies post web video these days with ease: http://www.videoegg.com/ For the title's Is Flash the answer?, I'm actually not real sure of the question, sorry, hard for me to usefully reply on that one yet ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Everybody Hates Chris
Joshua Kinberg wrote: This is not using Google's VLC plugin, which is still Windows only. This episode seems to use Flash Player on both Windows and Mac. I wonder if this was a request of the content owner wanting broadest penetration and recognizing limitations of Google's player, not to mention the extra (Windows-only) download and install. For what it's worth, the entire Google Video library has moved to Flash Video: http://video.google.com/video_help.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/everybody-wont-hate-this.html This makes me suspect it was a general usability and outreach change, rather than a change from a particular client request. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] From MOV, WMV, AVI ... to the Flash format
chrbaudry wrote: Anyone has an idea of existing conversion systems into .FLV files? There are many, but I haven't personally evaluated them all yet. Here is one collection of such utilities, although it doesn't show all the resources that came up when I searched with term flv convert: http://swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=711 jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
