Plan to collect some notes in this blog post on the adobe MU (muse code name) web development application. Mainly working with HTML5 video. Jim passed this information on from his early experiments with this app.
Resources:
video conversion:Uses ogg files – sourceforge media convertor
Jim’s notes : After installed, go to preferences and click ‘get more presets’ to install the .ogg conversion preset. Table of browser video compatibility on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
Lachie sent these notes for dealing with 16:9 exports for the web.
Open file in Quicktime,
Go to “Window -> Show Movie Properties”
Select “Video Track” then “Visual Settings” tab below
De-tick “Preserve Aspect Ratio”
Change scaled size to 427 x 240, stretches width to widescreen
/(OR change to 320 x 180, shrinks height to widescreen)
Also, a tool suggestion;
SQUARED 5 MPEG STREAMCLIP FOR MAC AND WINDOWS – quoted from the website:
high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a stream and YouTube downloader.
MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 download web page
J & R introduced me to the SANYO Xacti E2 camcorder which is a great pocket camera for recording video and used a lot by videobloggers who want the ‘capture the moment’ option.
WordPress have gone and added a video multi-format transcoder as an upgrade to WP blogs. It comes at a cost currently – lets hope that changes down the track.
Announcing VideoPress.com
videopress post.
With the video upgrade (available on your upgrades page, bottom left of dashboard navigation) when you upload a video of almost any format we’ll crunch it into several different formats just right for streaming on the web, DVD quality, HD quality, and even optimized for iTunes and Miro.
videopress website
VideoPress is an upgrade that makes it easy to upload, embed, and share video on your WordPress.com blog or any site around the world, even in full HD.
WordPress Video Solution Framework
This package contains the video solutions framework, including transcoder and administration interface utilities, written in PHP. The code was developed by Automattic, Inc., and powers WordPress.com video solutions. It supports multiple formats, including HD. It is an open source project, which means you can reuse it, build upon it, and share it with the community.
http://pods.uproot.us/
Pods lets you create, manage, and display custom content types using WordPress. Like Drupal CCK, these content types can relate to one another, allowing for sites packed with interconnectedness. Automatic pagination, filtering, public forms, access control, menu editing and more are possible with the Pods CMS plugin.
flutter
J put me onto google’s open source android today and the concept that you can point a mobile at a particular building or place and find out specific information in relation to what you are questioning in front of you from the web using GPS type technologies. This could also be used for tourist purposes as a type of virtual guidebook.
android community
Seesmic is a recent sharing platform that has been developed around using online video for commenting. Background on wikipedia including the person behind this venture. It has been seen as a version of twitter video and is directed towards webcams. A flash interface is being used with a MySQL database.
Caught up with Andy Nicholson from Engage Media today and learnt about their Transmission online video metadata working group.
A metadata standard for online video will ensure a common definitions for basic information such as title, date, author and language and (free) tags. This standard is to be used in video upload forms and video feeds of data coming from each participating site. The standard will allow creation of search and importation tools for (open source) Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, WordPress, Plone/Plumi etc to easily locate video data in other video databases that use the standard.
Johnan Oomen replied to a post of this on the video vortex list with a reference to TX metadata standard:
EBU Core pdf—– PBCore Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project. He states they are both “built on the foundation of the Dublin Core (ISO 15836), an international standard for resource discovery (http://dublincore.org), widely used in the cultural heritage domain.
Meet with JJ the other day and he spoke about RDF being the next thing to watch on the web. From W3C:
Today’s web is built predominantly for human consumption. Even as machine-readable data begins to appear on the web, it is typically distributed in a separate file, with a separate format, and no correspondence between the human and machine versions. As a result, web browsers can provide only minimal assistance to humans in parsing and processing web data: browsers only see presentation information. We introduce RDFa, which provides a set of HTML attributes to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. We show how to express simple and more complex datasets using RDFa, and in particular how to turn the existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content.
from nettime breakthrough for open video on the web
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206&from=rss
Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies.
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492
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.
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files.
