If you upload as iPod compatible H264 M4V files (.M4V is Apple's extension for iPod compatible MP4 files), you can customise your Blip Show Player to show them in their original form. However, even so, I've been noticing a deterioration in quality and colour recently, and I'm not sure why that is.
Blip's flash conversion has always been a bit grey and pixelly - as Jay says, you can always just upload your own flv file - converted using MPEGStreamclip or your editing software. There was a point when people loved Blip because they had the best quality and best feature set, back when YouTube's quality was appalling. They seem to be losing that advantage now. I heard someone I didn't know really complaining about their reliability at an event last week. Add to that the uncertainty about what's acceptable under their T&Cs as discussed here before. It must be a very expensive & competitive business, and seems they're defining a different niche for themselves: a home for Web TV serials, rather than home movies. In my experience, Vimeo has very good quality - but as Jay said, Blip allows you to link to the original file for podcasting. A solution I've been using recently is uploading to Vimeo and Blip at the same time using Pixelpipe, then embedding the Vimeo player and linking to the file on Blip for podcasting/iTunes. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 30-Nov-09, at 2:53 PM, Chad Boeninger wrote: > Hi all, > I've been using Blip.TV for quite some time for nearly all of my > video blog > posts and other video projects, for both work and fun. I love the > service > and the features, but have started to become a little disappointed > with the > final flash video after conversion. If you upload the same video to > Blip, > Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook, the Blip version that is converted > seems to be > the worst in the bunch. I'm generally only uploading SD video, if that > makes any difference. I don't plan on moving away from Blip any time > soon, > as the other features (playlists, cross posting, customized player, > custom > thumnails, etc) are the reasons I stay with Blip. However, I was > wondering > if any of you have any suggestions for getting better quality out of > the > Blip video player. Are there tricks I can employ on my end to make > my file > more friendly to conversion? I'm a low budget windows user, so > typically my > files are WMV (Flip video SD) or Mov (Canon SD 780 IS), and I > occasionally > still shoot video with and older Canon MiniDV (edit in moviemaker > and output > as WMV). Is there a file type or size that Blip may like better for > better > quality conversion to flash? The other three seem to take WMVs just > fine > and crunch them well, but perhaps there's something better I should be > looking at when uploading to Blip. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > --Chad > > -- > Chad F. Boeninger > libraryvoice.com - blog > libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog > twitter.com/cfboeninger > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
