Offering both makes a lot of sense to me. I dream of this stuff being pushed to the extreme and for it to be possible for a blog like experience to be completely available from within a flash player. Complexities quickly arise when the people providing the player are hosting your videos, but are not responsible for the rest of your blog, it leads to an understandable focus on the video hosting page rather than your blog page. This may not be considered a probem because the expectation may be that you embed their player in your site, and your site provides all the other bloggy stuff you want. But this doesnt cover scenarios where our show player may be embedded on another site or used as a widget.
I see the guide button is optional, and its easy to rebrand the player so that its got your own site in the bottom right hand corner, which is a clickable link pointing to the URL of your choice. Id love to see the creative commons stuff thats been requested in the past, be rolled out into this show player in the future, whether it be through a little cc icon on the bottom bar of the player, or the inclusion of this info in the popup 'about this episode' tab. I agree about the font size, hmm this stuff starts to get a bit tricky, a big decision to break away from the player being 320x240. I see that Veoh's player is rather large now, but this makes it look quite good and leaves more room for additional info overlays to be displayed in a larger font. Some other services have really wide players with separate episode bars to one side of the video. Personally Im fascinated by the idea of a flash player for wordpress that can display the entire blog, text video etc, in the flash player. I was looking at WPF/E but I think I'll ignore that technology for now, and go buymyself a copy of flash and join the fun. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mike Hudack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, > > For some people the blog format is really important. Cross-posting, > copy & paste and everything else we've built to support the blog format > aren't going away. We're going to keep those features, and we're going > to keep improving them. It's just that the blog format isn't right for > everyone. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Verdi > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] New blip.tv show player > > Aaron & Steve - you bring up some good points. I do think options for > people > are important and I do like the ability to look through an archive but > the > price is that you loose all the other benefits of a blog - permalinks, > comments, context, choice of video size and formats. That player is > really > built on the idea that your blip.tv blog is your blog. So it only shows > and > links back to your blog posts on blip. Comments? They have to go on the > blip > blog (as long as the viewer know to click through to the blip blog to > leave > a comment). Plus you have to have the blip hot shows menu. That thing > pulls > in stuff completely out of context that you have no control over. Of > course > you do have control in that you certainly don't have to use the show > player > at all. I just think the blog part of videoblogging is important and > desirable and I feel a little sad when people are so excited about > dropping > it. > > - Verdi > > On 4/15/07, Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I put the new blip.tv player on my 'homepage' this morning. > > > > http://www.stevegarfield.com/ > > > > I blogged about it here: > > > > http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/04/blip-video-player.html > > > > In the blog post I say, "vlogs are dead. ;-)" > > > > It's a joke, but also ironic since the reason for initially using > > blogs to post video in the first place was a technical one. > > > > There wasn't any easy way to post video to the web. > > > > Once I figured out that I could put video in a blog post, I got a > > very easy way to publish videos, along with the added benefits of > > that video being included in a blog post. > > > > But that method, over time, introduced the problems of old videos > > getting lost in archives, and not having an easy way to browse > > through videos. > > > > There are a lot of companies now bringing to the market ways to make > > it easy to surf videos and I'm glad that blip.tv has given me a way > > to allow people to browse my archives that are hosted with blip.tv. > > > > --Steve > > > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > > > Some details here: > > > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Steve Garfield > > http://SteveGarfield.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://michaelverdi.com > http://spinxpress.com > http://freevlog.org > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links >
