I had these thoughts on some similarities between AM’s rhizomes and the v-defunct player, when I was replying to a videoblogging mail list post.

The project certainly has been influenced by Adrian’s work with vogs and his writing on softvideography and the VD collective are similarily interested in exploring video on the Internet beyond being single-channel and linear like a version of TV and cinema on the web.

VD simply breaks down what would normally be a larger linear video as you say into smaller granular clips, that are tagged and categorised on posting in the vlog/blog format. The user then uses this metadata to reassemble these clips in a player attached to the vlog as a page. The vlog as a larger thematic video work is made up of smaller clips.

In Adrian’s rhizomes that he is currently refining I think a similar type of interactivity and granularity occurs where Quicktime in this case is used as a container to bring in a number of varying content types in varying order. Rhizomes in way are configured in a variety of ways to display this content like the customized player page in VD. Both often explore video being displayed simultaneously in more than one frame. (multi-channel)