Chris Pirillo » video-player http://chris.pirillo.com News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © chris@pirillo.com () chris@pirillo.com() Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. chris@pirillo.com No no http://chris.pirillo.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgChris Pirillohttp://chris.pirillo.com 144 144 Media Player that can Play all Music and Video Fileshttp://chris.pirillo.com/media-player-that-can-play-all-music-and-video-files/ http://chris.pirillo.com/media-player-that-can-play-all-music-and-video-files/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:56:04 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/10/03/media-player-that-can-play-all-music-and-video-files/ Media Player that can Play all Music and Video Files is a post from Chris Pirillo


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http://live.pirillo.com/ – A question came in during our Round Table, asking what player can be used on your computer to play any type of media file format. The answer was unanimous… VLC.

Four of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, Wirelesspacket, and last but certainly not least… Datalore.

Video Lan VLC player is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC, as I already mention, is cross platform: you can use it on Windows, OS X, and even Linux! It’s completely open source, and the source code is easy to get to on their website if you care to try and make it work on an unsupported Operating System.

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Formats Available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4) Flash Video (.flv) MP3 Audio (.mp3)

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Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes

http://live.pirillo.com/ – A question came in during our Round Table, asking what player can be used on your computer to play any type of media file format. The answer was unanimous… VLC.

Four of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, Wirelesspacket, and last but certainly not least… Datalore.

Video Lan VLC player is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC, as I already mention, is cross platform: you can use it on Windows, OS X, and even Linux! It’s completely open source, and the source code is easy to get to on their website if you care to try and make it work on an unsupported Operating System.

Want to embed this video in your blog? Use this code:

Formats Available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4) Flash Video (.flv) MP3 Audio (.mp3)

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Revver appears to be the ones serving up the videos through Zango, and they also appear to have known about it for quite some time. Since I’m uploading my videos to Revver, I’m opening myself up to the relationship they apparently have with Zango – merely another affiliate, albeit one with questionable intentions. I don’t take issue with the embedding of the videos themselves, but the flaming hoops which one must progress through in order to watch them as indexed by Zango.

I haven’t made very much with Revver videos, and I’m not sure how much of that is blood money. I guess I have to ask Revver where they stand – and videobloggers, at large, where they stand? Is it okay for your content to be distributed under false pretenses (as in, forcing a user to download and install generally useless software in order for them to see your video when they can see it without any installation elsewhere)?

If Revver doesn’t address this issue, or allow me to opt-out of being embedded specifically by Zango, I’ll simply close and delete my Revver account and videos – and encourage others to do the same. From SpywareGude:

Zango was not involved in the creation of this “content”. They did not create the movie, they did not pay for its creation. They just used an API to retrieve the information off the Revver site. The tagging and indexing was done by Revver as well. Zango did not pay for the bandwidth costs of streaming this content. The content (and even the accompanying thumbnails) are served directly from Revver’s servers. Zango did not pay a license fee to show this content to visitors. Revver does not charge anything to become a “publisher”. Zango gets paid whenever a visitor clicks an ad in a Revver video on their site. This occurs regardless of whether the user has the Zango software installed or not.

So, Revver – what are you going to do about this now that someone’s holding your feet to the fire? More importantly, am I the only “video blogger” who is more than a little outraged about this?

]]> Revver is Behind Zango Crapware Fiasco is a post from Chris Pirillo

Revver appears to be the ones serving up the videos through Zango, and they also appear to have known about it for quite some time. Since I’m uploading my videos to Revver, I’m opening myself up to the relationship they apparently have with Zango – merely another affiliate, albeit one with questionable intentions. I don’t take issue with the embedding of the videos themselves, but the flaming hoops which one must progress through in order to watch them as indexed by Zango.

I haven’t made very much with Revver videos, and I’m not sure how much of that is blood money. I guess I have to ask Revver where they stand – and videobloggers, at large, where they stand? Is it okay for your content to be distributed under false pretenses (as in, forcing a user to download and install generally useless software in order for them to see your video when they can see it without any installation elsewhere)?

If Revver doesn’t address this issue, or allow me to opt-out of being embedded specifically by Zango, I’ll simply close and delete my Revver account and videos – and encourage others to do the same. From SpywareGude:

Zango was not involved in the creation of this “content”. They did not create the movie, they did not pay for its creation. They just used an API to retrieve the information off the Revver site. The tagging and indexing was done by Revver as well. Zango did not pay for the bandwidth costs of streaming this content. The content (and even the accompanying thumbnails) are served directly from Revver’s servers. Zango did not pay a license fee to show this content to visitors. Revver does not charge anything to become a “publisher”. Zango gets paid whenever a visitor clicks an ad in a Revver video on their site. This occurs regardless of whether the user has the Zango software installed or not.

So, Revver – what are you going to do about this now that someone’s holding your feet to the fire? More importantly, am I the only “video blogger” who is more than a little outraged about this?

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When it comes to video sites and embedded players, I absolutely hate it when…

  • there’s no volume control in the video player
  • volume levels aren’t sticky between videos / sessions
  • volume is set to a default of high instead of mid or low
  • the video automatically starts playing on page load
  • I can’t double-click to go TRUE full screen
  • you can’t jump instantly to any given time marker
  • you can’t easily download the video source (MP4, AVI, etc.)
  • the video restarts itself instead of picking up where I left off
  • “share this” code is not auto selected and copied to the clipboard
  • player controls are just too damn confusing
]]> Top 10 Video Player Problems is a post from Chris Pirillo

When it comes to video sites and embedded players, I absolutely hate it when…

  • there’s no volume control in the video player
  • volume levels aren’t sticky between videos / sessions
  • volume is set to a default of high instead of mid or low
  • the video automatically starts playing on page load
  • I can’t double-click to go TRUE full screen
  • you can’t jump instantly to any given time marker
  • you can’t easily download the video source (MP4, AVI, etc.)
  • the video restarts itself instead of picking up where I left off
  • “share this” code is not auto selected and copied to the clipboard
  • player controls are just too damn confusing
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