There are a lot of these players coming out now. If it were possible to create permalinks so that a link would take you to the site AND make the player play a certain episode, that'd be perfect.
Crowdabout.us have recently released a similar large Show player - 2 weeks ago - and allowed anonymous commenting without logging into their site (which you had to do before). So you and your viewers can use their commenting and posting system, putting information and conversations at specific points along the timeline of your videos (with great RSS). I strongly advise you to check it out. It runs straight off your Blip RSS - they just pull in your flv files from Blip and then allow their commenting. At the moment, though, I want people to be able to link to specific episodes, not just watch the latest by default. I wrote to Crowdabout.us and asked them if they could produce another player, which allowed specific episodes to be played within individual permalinked blog posts. I hope they're going to do it. If they do, I will switch straightaway to using their players. The show player on the Home page and the individual players within the individual post pages. This kind of functionality is moving towards what Steve Elbows has talked about here for a long time and which I am always very excited about the possibility of - everything contained within one player - a multipurpose blog tool. The idea of making the videos themselves richer with easy custom hyperlinks and hotspots is also something I salivate over. I think people will start to build all this stuff in as the more advanced players get more popular. Wish it would all happen right now, though. Technologically, I can't see any reason why it shouldn't. Surely just a question of incentive, energy and inspiration. Maybe Elbows will come up with some blueprints - now he's overcome his Flashphobia ;) If I can help at all, even just as a sounding board, let me know. Rupert http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 15 Apr 2007, at 19:45, joshpaul wrote: Yes, metadata is key. There are already hooks available, it just seems that the vast majority of people aren't using them. In other words, the major video containers provide methods to embed metadata, so that it travels with the file itself. Maybe this is something the video vertigo team would be willing to tackle? ( i.e. key/value pairs) On 4/15/07, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com>, > "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > Some details here: > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > I think this is probably one of the most important examples of where > video is headed: the containment of all information in the video > container. Containing descriptive text, links, comments, etc. Video > travels outside the website to mobile devices, internet TVs, etc. It > needs to contain all it's information along the way and this feature > shows this capability. > > -- Enric > -======- > http://cirne.com > > > -- joshpaul o: 818-237-5200 c: 818-667-0900 w: joshpaul.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
