Hey - thanks all for the great info on this topic - you've helped me tremendously to get up to speed. And thanks to Steve Garfield for mentioning this group on his "Learn about video blogging" site. It's proving invaluable.
I should have my channel up w/in a few months and look forward to sharing it with y'all. - Daniel --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Meiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/4/07, J. Rhett Aultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. Making QT my main format caused no end of headaches from people > > telling me they had trouble with QT, so I decided to go with Flash. > > Dreamhost also offers their own Flash transcoder, but I felt that > > Blip.tv offered more in the way of social support, such as serving as > > the mouthpiece of vloggers when video got scraped against people's CC > > licenses, that I went with them for my new show. Blip has its ups and > > downs, but I've been pleased overall. > > Really!? Any more info on Dreamhost's flash based transcoding? So > many possibilities there. > > I've always been a proponent of building server side transcoding into > wordpress as a plugin to allow for one click publishing of videos to > slash. There are several open source packages floating around now but > I have yet to see one integrated into wordpress as a plugin. Maybe a > future version of vPIP perhaps? > > I must say though... increasinly I see web based distribution as > picking a suite of hosting options. I'm a big fan of Blip and vimeo's > ability to cross post to many hosting platforms. > > BTW, somone said they had to have a different blip account for each of > several projects!? This is just wrong... unless you're using blip for > your vlog too... Blip is best when used as a HOST... with blip's > extensive crossposting features to cross post from everything from > flickr, to delicious to wordpress, MT, Blogger.com blogs, Archive.org > and others. This means you can use blip to host all your videos even > if you do have three vlogs and cross post different videos to > different vlogs. > > Blip needs to work more on improving their metadata cross posting > though. As aggregators we've found cross-posts from blip to other > videoblogging platforms are sorely lacking in meta information such > as. > > -support for cross posted multiple video formats, particularly flash > > -support for cross posted thumbnails > > -support for cross posted geographic information > > and a whole lot more. > > This is causing people using wordpress, MT, and blogger blogs with > blip not to have as nice of video feeds nor have as effective a vlog > as they potentially could. > > That said... blip is still way ahead of the curve, noone else even > comes close in my opinion, but there's a long way to go. > > I'd love to see for example vlogmap.org to have even better tracking > geographic blog posts. > > Someone mentioned http://twittermap.com earlier this week. That sort > of metadata exists on blip and elsewhere in the vlogosphere... it's > just not making it through all the feeds. The problem isn't great > markup for RSS like Media RSS... it's that the metadata is never > making it into the feeds. Specifically that users can't mark it up in > the code. The easiest example is there is a way to mark tags in your > posts... rel="tag", but there is no way to specify a thumbnail for a > video, no rel="thumbnail" or other. > > Anyway, I'm geeking out. > > Peace, > > -Mike > > > I now host Greentime on Blip and have it crosspost to a Wordpress blog I > > keep on Dreamhost. It is a pretty good arrangement, and I don't know > > that I'd go back to doing everything completely off Dreamhost. > > > > -- > > Rhett. > > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > > http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime > > > > Daniel Foster wrote: > > > > >New to vlogging and setting up my vlog now. Not certain whether I should > > go > > >with an inexpensive high disk-space / bandwidth server (dreamhost) or a > > host > > >such as blip.tv. > > > > > >This will be on my own domain. I¹ve read over blip¹s licensing terms, so > > >I¹m aware of that. I plan to eventually post numerous videos (more than > > >100) as I already have lots of content. > > > > > >I¹m tending toward dreamhost, which seems to give me more control and I > > >could use their QT streaming capabilities. Would this be a good choice ? > > >Any other guidance regarding this is much appreciated! > > > > > >Thanks. > > > > > >* DF > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
