Re: [videoblogging] Power of video
Been in China since July 24, blogging over various sites. Index of blogs here: http://www.caltechscience.com/08solareclipse/index.html Uaing hotels w/Internet access, friends computers. No Internet cafes used! Blip.tv is blocked from China (!), so no go there. Flickr Kyte.tv are the 2 favorites of mine: http://www.kyte.tv/solareclipse2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/collections/72157606352221774/ because of bulk uploading capability Blogger works: http://08solareclipse.blogspot.com/ BTW, Wordpress sites are blocked! Made a MONUMENTAL effort to find a suitable eclipse observation site (private secluded to capture eclipse against nice scenic background), but had a little bad luck! Eclipse partially obscured by clouds. a few miles away in Yiwu, it was clear (ironically, my tour agency had mistakenly bought me a pass for this area). I went to Santanghu (Chinese military area) in the Inner Mongolian desert. Pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/sets/72157606500933717/
[videoblogging] China solar eclipse blog-a-thon
Been in China since July 24, blogging over various sites. Index of blogs here: http://www.caltechscience.com/08solareclipse/index.html Uaing hotels w/Internet access, friends computers. No Internet cafes used! Blip.tv is blocked from China (!), so no go there. Flickr Kyte.tv are the 2 favorites of mine: http://www.kyte.tv/solareclipse2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/collections/72157606352221774/ because of bulk uploading capability Blogger works: http://08solareclipse.blogspot.com/ BTW, Wordpress sites are blocked! Made a MONUMENTAL effort to find a suitable eclipse observation site (private secluded to capture eclipse against nice scenic background), but had a little bad luck! Eclipse partially obscured by clouds. a few miles away in Yiwu, it was clear (ironically, my tour agency had mistakenly bought me a pass for this area). I went to Santanghu (Chinese military area) in the Inner Mongolian desert. Pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/sets/72157606500933717/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
When I get back to SF this week, I'll start to figure out how to make a tracker for moneythong.com I see it as a tracker for underground/independent visual work. Figured if the Internets didn't have one of these yet, where people can go through lists of artistic torrents, then now is the time!!! Maybe, like Jackson mentioned, we put up Broadcast Machine to help people figure out and use bittorrents. (we teach and entertain!) I just need to find someone who knows how to create and maintain a tracker that can teach me the ropes. Should be able to find that somebody -- if you know anyone, send em my way! On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, ractalfece [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Schlomo, that would be awesome if you created a tracker for underground video. This latest video was my first attempt at ever putting anything on bittorrent. The public tracker I used seemed to conk out after about 12 hours. I asked one of my sixteen year old fans what I should do. Put it on Demonoid. So I did and it started working again. Only problem, now it's searchable. I wanted it to be underground, distributed via email and bittorrent. You'd have to know somebody who knows somebody to get it. So far nobody has blabbed that it's public. So my youtube fans are still sending me emails. It's such a relief to be in contact with them. I'm learning my audience isn't exclusively moron. I've got faculty. I've got art students. I've got Europeans. Shutins. Life strugglers. I feel much more connected. I email the torrent out and I see another leecher sucking it off my computer. It feels great not to be hosted anywhere. So if anybody wants my new online video you can do it the fun way and send me an email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] John%40totalvom.com Or you can just search for Information Dystopia and grab it off Demonoid. This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on this list? It's that time again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -john%40totalvom.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John from TotalVom, whose work has often discussed his role within a world of online content creators (as well as comment on them), has had enough of the youtube comments and decides to go BitTorrent only. I can see a whole slew of bittorrents by small artists that dont need the ubiquitous nature of posting content everywhere and just put out a torrent that you send to friends. http://totalvom.blip.tv/file/1127884/ I envision a bittorrent tracker only for original longish form video content; people friending each other in Vuse to share the workload (does anyone actually friend each other in their trackers? I dont, seems weird). Awesome and easy to set up, where creators create to dialog with each other without the need/care of Views and Comments. I own moneythong.com, sounds like a good name for an Underground Video Bittorrent tracker site. Does someone know how to make one of these? And yes, I'm inspired and serious. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
You can use uTorrent to set up your own private tracker at your own domain name or IP address. I'd be happy to help if you need it, but it should be super easy. Details here: http://filesharefreak.com/tutorials/utorrent-make-your-own-bittorrent- tracker/ When people create a torrent file, they would create it with the Tracker URL: http://moneythong.com/yourport#/announce This covers the tracker part of the process, but not the index/ sharing of the torrent files. You can then share the torrent files privately by email, or create an index that's either public or accessible only to members, or use something like Pownce. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 10:34 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: When I get back to SF this week, I'll start to figure out how to make a tracker for moneythong.com I see it as a tracker for underground/independent visual work. Figured if the Internets didn't have one of these yet, where people can go through lists of artistic torrents, then now is the time!!! Maybe, like Jackson mentioned, we put up Broadcast Machine to help people figure out and use bittorrents. (we teach and entertain!) I just need to find someone who knows how to create and maintain a tracker that can teach me the ropes. Should be able to find that somebody -- if you know anyone, send em my way! On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, ractalfece [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Schlomo, that would be awesome if you created a tracker for underground video. This latest video was my first attempt at ever putting anything on bittorrent. The public tracker I used seemed to conk out after about 12 hours. I asked one of my sixteen year old fans what I should do. Put it on Demonoid. So I did and it started working again. Only problem, now it's searchable. I wanted it to be underground, distributed via email and bittorrent. You'd have to know somebody who knows somebody to get it. So far nobody has blabbed that it's public. So my youtube fans are still sending me emails. It's such a relief to be in contact with them. I'm learning my audience isn't exclusively moron. I've got faculty. I've got art students. I've got Europeans. Shutins. Life strugglers. I feel much more connected. I email the torrent out and I see another leecher sucking it off my computer. It feels great not to be hosted anywhere. So if anybody wants my new online video you can do it the fun way and send me an email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] John%40totalvom.com Or you can just search for Information Dystopia and grab it off Demonoid. This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on this list? It's that time again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -john%40totalvom.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John from TotalVom, whose work has often discussed his role within a world of online content creators (as well as comment on them), has had enough of the youtube comments and decides to go BitTorrent only. I can see a whole slew of bittorrents by small artists that dont need the ubiquitous nature of posting content everywhere and just put out a torrent that you send to friends. http://totalvom.blip.tv/file/1127884/ I envision a bittorrent tracker only for original longish form video content; people friending each other in Vuse to share the workload (does anyone actually friend each other in their trackers? I dont, seems weird). Awesome and easy to set up, where creators create to dialog with each other without the need/care of Views and Comments. I own moneythong.com, sounds like a good name for an Underground Video Bittorrent tracker site. Does someone know how to make one of these? And yes, I'm inspired and serious. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Tom Hanks Pickle Sandwich
Hello, We make a series of videos called SUPPENDAPO (Supplies for the Pending Apocalypse) that are all based on voicemails people leave us on our automated phone line: 206-666-2621. Call the number, leave a message, and we make a video based on the random things you order. The latest video is below. It's one of the best calls we've ever received. If you're at work, you may want to use headphones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im-77zcsgZ0 I highly recommend putting our number in your address book, and dialing it late at night after several drinks. It's all automated, and you can erase the message if you don't like what you said. No pressure. *Adam Quirk* / Wreck Salvage http://wreckandsalvage.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / +1 551.208.4644 (m) / imbullemhead (aim) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
Great info, Rupert. I guess this wont be hard to use; what I want to try to figure out is how to make the torrent pages pretty/accessible so it doesnt feel so l33t. I used to be very confused with trackers because of their l33t layouts. I want screenshots of vids, and easy learning curve for the newbie. Everyone is saying that bittorrent is getting more and more use, then lets have an underground vid tracker that displays works in a way that is inviting and helps push something different than just More Shows. Fuck Shows, Make Art On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use uTorrent to set up your own private tracker at your own domain name or IP address. I'd be happy to help if you need it, but it should be super easy. Details here: http://filesharefreak.com/tutorials/utorrent-make-your-own-bittorrent- tracker/ When people create a torrent file, they would create it with the Tracker URL: http://moneythong.com/yourport#/announce This covers the tracker part of the process, but not the index/ sharing of the torrent files. You can then share the torrent files privately by email, or create an index that's either public or accessible only to members, or use something like Pownce. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 10:34 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: When I get back to SF this week, I'll start to figure out how to make a tracker for moneythong.com I see it as a tracker for underground/independent visual work. Figured if the Internets didn't have one of these yet, where people can go through lists of artistic torrents, then now is the time!!! Maybe, like Jackson mentioned, we put up Broadcast Machine to help people figure out and use bittorrents. (we teach and entertain!) I just need to find someone who knows how to create and maintain a tracker that can teach me the ropes. Should be able to find that somebody -- if you know anyone, send em my way! On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, ractalfece [EMAIL PROTECTED] john%40detrimentalinformation.com wrote: Schlomo, that would be awesome if you created a tracker for underground video. This latest video was my first attempt at ever putting anything on bittorrent. The public tracker I used seemed to conk out after about 12 hours. I asked one of my sixteen year old fans what I should do. Put it on Demonoid. So I did and it started working again. Only problem, now it's searchable. I wanted it to be underground, distributed via email and bittorrent. You'd have to know somebody who knows somebody to get it. So far nobody has blabbed that it's public. So my youtube fans are still sending me emails. It's such a relief to be in contact with them. I'm learning my audience isn't exclusively moron. I've got faculty. I've got art students. I've got Europeans. Shutins. Life strugglers. I feel much more connected. I email the torrent out and I see another leecher sucking it off my computer. It feels great not to be hosted anywhere. So if anybody wants my new online video you can do it the fun way and send me an email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] John%40totalvom.com John% 40totalvom.com Or you can just search for Information Dystopia and grab it off Demonoid. This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on this list? It's that time again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -john%40totalvom.com -john%40totalvom.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John from TotalVom, whose work has often discussed his role within a world of online content creators (as well as comment on them), has had enough of the youtube comments and decides to go BitTorrent only. I can see a whole slew of bittorrents by small artists that dont need the ubiquitous nature of posting content everywhere and just put out a torrent that you send to friends. http://totalvom.blip.tv/file/1127884/ I envision a bittorrent tracker only for original longish form video content; people friending each other in Vuse to share the workload (does anyone actually friend each other in their trackers? I dont, seems weird). Awesome and easy to set up, where creators create to dialog with each other without the need/care of Views and Comments. I own moneythong.com, sounds like a good name for an Underground Video Bittorrent tracker site. Does someone know how to make one of these? And yes, I'm inspired and serious. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . -- Schlomo
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
If it were me, I'd build it on Wordpress. There's a catalog/ directory tool for Wordpress called Scriblio. http://about.scriblio.net/ It was designed by a team of librarians to be an open source OPAC - Open Public Access Catalog for libraries. But if you look at it, it basically turns Wordpress into an editable catalog with pictures/screenshots and all sorts of other data. It'd be searchable, cataloguable. It's free and it's supported by grants and used by a few libraries, so chances are it'll be well-supported as Wordpress gets upgraded. And Wordpress, obviously, has the benefit of so many developers and plugins - it keeps getting better. You can allow people to register as Contributors and upload their own files. Set different levels of permissions. And you'd have a variety of feed options - Wordpress makes a main feed and one for each category. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 11:11 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Great info, Rupert. I guess this wont be hard to use; what I want to try to figure out is how to make the torrent pages pretty/accessible so it doesnt feel so l33t. I used to be very confused with trackers because of their l33t layouts. I want screenshots of vids, and easy learning curve for the newbie. Everyone is saying that bittorrent is getting more and more use, then lets have an underground vid tracker that displays works in a way that is inviting and helps push something different than just More Shows. Fuck Shows, Make Art On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use uTorrent to set up your own private tracker at your own domain name or IP address. I'd be happy to help if you need it, but it should be super easy. Details here: http://filesharefreak.com/tutorials/utorrent-make-your-own- bittorrent- tracker/ When people create a torrent file, they would create it with the Tracker URL: http://moneythong.com/yourport#/announce This covers the tracker part of the process, but not the index/ sharing of the torrent files. You can then share the torrent files privately by email, or create an index that's either public or accessible only to members, or use something like Pownce. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 10:34 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: When I get back to SF this week, I'll start to figure out how to make a tracker for moneythong.com I see it as a tracker for underground/independent visual work. Figured if the Internets didn't have one of these yet, where people can go through lists of artistic torrents, then now is the time!!! Maybe, like Jackson mentioned, we put up Broadcast Machine to help people figure out and use bittorrents. (we teach and entertain!) I just need to find someone who knows how to create and maintain a tracker that can teach me the ropes. Should be able to find that somebody -- if you know anyone, send em my way! On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, ractalfece [EMAIL PROTECTED] john%40detrimentalinformation.com wrote: Schlomo, that would be awesome if you created a tracker for underground video. This latest video was my first attempt at ever putting anything on bittorrent. The public tracker I used seemed to conk out after about 12 hours. I asked one of my sixteen year old fans what I should do. Put it on Demonoid. So I did and it started working again. Only problem, now it's searchable. I wanted it to be underground, distributed via email and bittorrent. You'd have to know somebody who knows somebody to get it. So far nobody has blabbed that it's public. So my youtube fans are still sending me emails. It's such a relief to be in contact with them. I'm learning my audience isn't exclusively moron. I've got faculty. I've got art students. I've got Europeans. Shutins. Life strugglers. I feel much more connected. I email the torrent out and I see another leecher sucking it off my computer. It feels great not to be hosted anywhere. So if anybody wants my new online video you can do it the fun way and send me an email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] John%40totalvom.com John% 40totalvom.com Or you can just search for Information Dystopia and grab it off Demonoid. This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on this list? It's that time again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -john%40totalvom.com -john%40totalvom.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John from TotalVom, whose work has often discussed his role within a world of online content creators (as well as comment on them), has
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Goes Underground
AHH! Worlds colliding! I know the guys that make scriblio - it's pretty cool (and the creators are too). Interesting to see a library dealie turn up in this list - cool. David King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it were me, I'd build it on Wordpress. There's a catalog/ directory tool for Wordpress called Scriblio. http://about.scriblio.net/ It was designed by a team of librarians to be an open source OPAC - Open Public Access Catalog for libraries. But if you look at it, it basically turns Wordpress into an editable catalog with pictures/screenshots and all sorts of other data. It'd be searchable, cataloguable. It's free and it's supported by grants and used by a few libraries, so chances are it'll be well-supported as Wordpress gets upgraded. And Wordpress, obviously, has the benefit of so many developers and plugins - it keeps getting better. You can allow people to register as Contributors and upload their own files. Set different levels of permissions. And you'd have a variety of feed options - Wordpress makes a main feed and one for each category. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 11:11 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Great info, Rupert. I guess this wont be hard to use; what I want to try to figure out is how to make the torrent pages pretty/accessible so it doesnt feel so l33t. I used to be very confused with trackers because of their l33t layouts. I want screenshots of vids, and easy learning curve for the newbie. Everyone is saying that bittorrent is getting more and more use, then lets have an underground vid tracker that displays works in a way that is inviting and helps push something different than just More Shows. Fuck Shows, Make Art On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED]rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: You can use uTorrent to set up your own private tracker at your own domain name or IP address. I'd be happy to help if you need it, but it should be super easy. Details here: http://filesharefreak.com/tutorials/utorrent-make-your-own- bittorrent- tracker/ When people create a torrent file, they would create it with the Tracker URL: http://moneythong.com/yourport#/announce This covers the tracker part of the process, but not the index/ sharing of the torrent files. You can then share the torrent files privately by email, or create an index that's either public or accessible only to members, or use something like Pownce. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 10:34 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: When I get back to SF this week, I'll start to figure out how to make a tracker for moneythong.com I see it as a tracker for underground/independent visual work. Figured if the Internets didn't have one of these yet, where people can go through lists of artistic torrents, then now is the time!!! Maybe, like Jackson mentioned, we put up Broadcast Machine to help people figure out and use bittorrents. (we teach and entertain!) I just need to find someone who knows how to create and maintain a tracker that can teach me the ropes. Should be able to find that somebody -- if you know anyone, send em my way! On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, ractalfece [EMAIL PROTECTED] john%40detrimentalinformation.comjohn% 40detrimentalinformation.com wrote: Schlomo, that would be awesome if you created a tracker for underground video. This latest video was my first attempt at ever putting anything on bittorrent. The public tracker I used seemed to conk out after about 12 hours. I asked one of my sixteen year old fans what I should do. Put it on Demonoid. So I did and it started working again. Only problem, now it's searchable. I wanted it to be underground, distributed via email and bittorrent. You'd have to know somebody who knows somebody to get it. So far nobody has blabbed that it's public. So my youtube fans are still sending me emails. It's such a relief to be in contact with them. I'm learning my audience isn't exclusively moron. I've got faculty. I've got art students. I've got Europeans. Shutins. Life strugglers. I feel much more connected. I email the torrent out and I see another leecher sucking it off my computer. It feels great not to be hosted anywhere. So if anybody wants my new online video you can do it the fun way and send me an email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] John%40totalvom.com John% 40totalvom.com John% 40totalvom.com Or you can just search for Information Dystopia and grab it off Demonoid. This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on this list? It's
[videoblogging] Assistive Hiking Experiment
Brought a camera/monopod along for a hike recently. My uncle is in a wheelchair and I guess I was thinking of him not being able to hike, or those in the city. HiRes 800bps/30fps Flash: http://www.techtrek.tv HiRes h.264 2000bps/30fps. http://blip.tv/file/1133050?filename=Techtrek-E17NorthPackMonadnockMountainExperimentInVirtualHiking595.mov My uncle liked it, he said the sound at the top of the mountain was the best. It's much different then the sounds he's heard for most of his life. There's a sense of height and far off wind that he said he could feel even after all the added noise and such from the mics/compression/output, etc.
Re: [videoblogging] Tom Hanks Pickle Sandwich
Okay, this is an incredibly cool idea. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We make a series of videos called SUPPENDAPO (Supplies for the Pending Apocalypse) that are all based on voicemails people leave us on our automated phone line: 206-666-2621. Call the number, leave a message, and we make a video based on the random things you order. The latest video is below. It's one of the best calls we've ever received. If you're at work, you may want to use headphones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im-77zcsgZ0 I highly recommend putting our number in your address book, and dialing it late at night after several drinks. It's all automated, and you can erase the message if you don't like what you said. No pressure. *Adam Quirk* / Wreck Salvage http://wreckandsalvage.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / +1 551.208.4644 (m) / imbullemhead (aim) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Assistive Hiking Experiment
Nice! On 4-Aug-08, at 12:19 PM, Caleb J. Clark wrote: Brought a camera/monopod along for a hike recently. My uncle is in a wheelchair and I guess I was thinking of him not being able to hike, or those in the city. HiRes 800bps/30fps Flash: http://www.techtrek.tv HiRes h.264 2000bps/30fps. http://blip.tv/file/1133050?filename=Techtrek- E17NorthPackMonadnockMountainExperimentInVirtualHiking595.mov My uncle liked it, he said the sound at the top of the mountain was the best. It's much different then the sounds he's heard for most of his life. There's a sense of height and far off wind that he said he could feel even after all the added noise and such from the mics/compression/output, etc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Video Goes Underground
my underground tool of choice was always KDX (haxial.com). it's been rewritten and KDX2 will be released at some point (or not). is BitTorrent overkill for this though? i think it might be. unless you are not underground and make a SHOW ;) On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:38 AM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: John from TotalVom, whose work has often discussed his role within a world of online content creators (as well as comment on them), has had enough of the youtube comments and decides to go BitTorrent only. I can see a whole slew of bittorrents by small artists that dont need the ubiquitous nature of posting content everywhere and just put out a torrent that you send to friends. http://totalvom.blip.tv/file/1127884/ I envision a bittorrent tracker only for original longish form video content; people friending each other in Vuse to share the workload (does anyone actually friend each other in their trackers? I dont, seems weird). Awesome and easy to set up, where creators create to dialog with each other without the need/care of Views and Comments. I own moneythong.com, sounds like a good name for an Underground Video Bittorrent tracker site. Does someone know how to make one of these? And yes, I'm inspired and serious. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Assistive Hiking Experiment
- Original Message - From: Caleb J. Clark Brought a camera/monopod along for a hike recently. My uncle is in a wheelchair and I guess I was thinking of him not being able to hike, or those in the city. HiRes 800bps/30fps Flash: http://www.techtrek.tv HiRes h.264 2000bps/30fps. http://blip.tv/file/1133050?filename=Techtrek-E17NorthPackMonadnockMountainExperimentInVirtualHiking595.mov My uncle liked it, he said the sound at the top of the mountain was the best. It's much different then the sounds he's heard for most of his life. There's a sense of height and far off wind that he said he could feel even after all the added noise and such from the mics/compression/output, etc. Your uncle liked what? Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
Re: [videoblogging] Assistive Hiking Experiment
What? I thought it was pretty clear from context and what followed...? His uncle liked watching the video in the link directly above. On 4-Aug-08, at 2:05 PM, Richard Amirault wrote: - Original Message - From: Caleb J. Clark Brought a camera/monopod along for a hike recently. My uncle is in a wheelchair and I guess I was thinking of him not being able to hike, or those in the city. HiRes 800bps/30fps Flash: http://www.techtrek.tv HiRes h.264 2000bps/30fps. http://blip.tv/file/1133050?filename=Techtrek- E17NorthPackMonadnockMountainExperimentInVirtualHiking595.mov My uncle liked it, he said the sound at the top of the mountain was the best. It's much different then the sounds he's heard for most of his life. There's a sense of height and far off wind that he said he could feel even after all the added noise and such from the mics/compression/output, etc. Your uncle liked what? Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] China solar eclipse blog-a-thon
awesome work my friend. i too am in china but missed out on the whole solar eclips... :( as for bypassing any global filtering system, you should download TOR from http://free.be.ijing2008.cn more to come on my own trip here in china On 4 Aug 2008, at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been in China since July 24, blogging over various sites. Index of blogs here: http://www.caltechscience.com/08solareclipse/index.html Uaing hotels w/Internet access, friends computers. No Internet cafes used! Blip.tv is blocked from China (!), so no go there. Flickr Kyte.tv are the 2 favorites of mine: http://www.kyte.tv/solareclipse2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/collections/72157606352221774/ because of bulk uploading capability Blogger works: http://08solareclipse.blogspot.com/ BTW, Wordpress sites are blocked! Made a MONUMENTAL effort to find a suitable eclipse observation site (private secluded to capture eclipse against nice scenic background), but had a little bad luck! Eclipse partially obscured by clouds. a few miles away in Yiwu, it was clear (ironically, my tour agency had mistakenly bought me a pass for this area). I went to Santanghu (Chinese military area) in the Inner Mongolian desert. Pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chimpanzee/sets/72157606500933717/ 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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/
[videoblogging] distributive media monitor / capturing systems mini personal update
since coming back from my around the world journey, i've now found myself working for a kick-ass non-profit that promotes remixes and mashups www.remixamerica.org . as we navigate the murky ocean of online video, i hope all y'all don't mind if i ask a few questions. since all y'all have been extremely helpful in my endeavors, i PROMISE that what ever help the videoblogger community gives Remix America, we will ensure our work gives back to the videoblogger community. it's a promise i pin my name on. so Remix America is going to the DNC / RNC (that's short hand for the two American political conventions). while we are at both conventions, we will be mashing up interviews, speeches and the like... we'll be sharing our content with a consortium of citizen-journalists and online video producers - theUptake.org, EpicFU, Denver Film School, and we're talking to a bunch of other outlets this week and next... any-who, we are currently trying to figure out a soup-to-nuts solution for the DNC/RNC where people from around the world can digitally record on-air content and then upload it to an asset management for all of us to use as source material. ideally we will be working with a bunch of volunteers capturing on-air political pundants doing their thing and saying their hootenanny. while conceptually, this is easy to understand, the team at Remix America is a bit perplexed on a soup to nuts solution. first, as experienced video editors do you have a preferred workflow for digitizing on-air content? second, let me tell you about our goals... - we'd like to have 6 to 10 volunteers plugging in out of the box PVR/DVRs into their computers to digitize on-air content. - at the end of the capture, the MPEG formatted video would be uploaded to a central asset management system (we have access to a video asset management system). - citizen journalists / remixers / mashup artists can then login to asset management system to view / download raw content for their remixes / mashups / etc. on the product front, things seem to be fairly straight forward. - on mac, just grab an eyetv 250 plus http://tinyurl.com/6a5h37 . plug, record, play, and upload. - on windows, soup to nuts solutions seem to be a bit more diverse. according to my research, SageTV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageTV contains all the components for an out of box solution we desire. does anyone have any other windows based recommendations? how you can help us all... 1. what's your preferred workflow for digitizing on-air content? 2. express interest in being a media monitor... the first catch, you'll need to have a cable connection. second, tell me if you have equipment or if you'll need equipment. 3. do you have any tips that can help us? cheers. noneck
[videoblogging] Re: H264 encoded movies
When will the players from blip.tv or vimeo.com will natively support H.264 content? They have been promising it for ages but what's holding them? The file size of H.264 video is way smaller too compared to Quicktime/WMV. Anyone has any info on this? Thanks --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, some flash players can play H.264 encoded movies - it doesn't matter if they have .mp4, .m4v or .mov as the extension. What matters is that they're encoded with H.264. The JW FLV Media Player http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player and the FlowPlayer http://flowplayer.org/ will both play H.264 videos. You can watch these on Mac, Win and Linux (inside the flash player) with latest couple of versions of the Flash plugin - you don't have to have quicktime installed. Verdi On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:11 PM, RICHARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I finally persuaded a client to encode their web movies to .h264 instead of Real Media. I'm using Apple's Compressor to encode .h264 video from a FCP 6 project. By default, Compressor uses the .mov extension when compressing to .h264 Will The new .h264 friendly version of Flash play a .mov file encoded as .h264? Or does it have to have a .mp4 or some other extension? Will Windows play a .h264 encoded web video without Quicktime installed? What is the best file extension/method for maximum compatibility with .h264 encoded web movies? Thanks, Richard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://graymattergravy.com
[videoblogging] Fwd: nettime breakthrough for open video on the web
perhaps of interest to some here? is anyone doing much with OGG files? -- Forwarded message -- From: Florian Schneider Date: 2 Aug 2008 22:05 Subject: nettime breakthrough for open video on the web To: nettime-l It was my last day at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: I have great news he screamed. Firefox 3.1 wil support OGG Theora! In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on the web! OGG THEORA is the only open source video erncoding suite. It is available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1. http://theora.org Native support in Firefox means that end-users on proprietary platforms like windows or mac do no longer have to install additional software in order to watch OGG encoded video. If you want to publish a video you can just use the video tag like for any image. There is no need for additional javascript or flash! Slashdot writes: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206from=rss Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 video tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking. Christopher Blizzard wrote in his blog http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492 Mozilla is committing to include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release that includes support for the video element tag. (Very likely to be Firefox 3.1 if there no huge change in course.) The code landed for ogg support last night. I suspect that the effects of this will take a long while to be felt but it's a great first step in bringing open video to the web by delivering it to a couple hundred million people around the world. At KEIN.ORG and in many related projects (like the Dictionary of War) we have been insisting on the use of an open video compression format for many years now. Despite all the complaints about additional software installations it seemed crucial to us to give proove of the possibility to publish digital video without the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with proprietary formats. In summer 2003 we started the open source video platform V2V http://v2v.cc which is entirely based on open source code. Ralph Giles, the maintainer of the THEORA project, was one of the speakers at NEURO -- networking europe http://neuro.kein.org in Munich in February 2004. Some months later Jan Gerber has developed ffmpeg2theora http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora a simple converter to create Ogg Theora files. I am looking forward very much to a wide range of new projects and initiatives which may come up now. For example jaromils video mixing software FreeJ seems a great tool with huge potential: http:// freej.org Let's build an open video alliance! very best, florian # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.aliak.com
