The avi video format is probably the most popular video format with the exception of flv which dominates the market for smaller videos. Almost every software player can play the avi format but barely any mobile device (like iPods, iPhones or other cell phones) can. Users who want to watch movies on their devices that [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 18th, 2009
- Comments: 20
The best Linux media players
Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over [...]
Bywifi Video Streaming Downloader
Bywifi Video Streaming Downloader is a software program for the Windows operating system that can speed up, download and transcode web video streams. It integrates itself nicely in several web browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox and works with popular video portals like Youtube, Dailymotion or MySpace. The application will run silently [...]
ITV Player: UK Silverlight-based catch-up
Catching up with the BBC’s iPlayer and Channel Four’s 4oD, British broadcaster ITV has released its own free video-on-demand service: ITV Player.
ITV Player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight format to stream its media, which allows it to be played on Windows and Macs. Users report problems with it working under the Linux build of Silverlight. The website [...]
animoto: Create a video presentation
animoto is a site which allows video presentations to be made in a minimal amount of time, claiming to be the killer of slideshows (although in reality they are slideshows!). The end result is an extremely slick slideshow.
The site makes creating a video presentation easily: to create one, all you must do is simply upload [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 2nd, 2009
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Add Youtube Videos to Your iPod with Floola
Some would say the fact that Linux can even communicate with an iPod is remarkable. And the way Apple keeps everything secreted away, I could easily buy that sentiment where it not for an intimate understanding of the resolve of the typical developer. Although not open source, Floola typifies this resolve, and then some. At [...]
Video Crawler – A Multimedia Search Engine
Video Crawler is AT&T’s multimedia search engine. The service is currently in Beta and provides access to videos and other multimedia files of more than 1600 different websites including the popular ones like Youtube, MySpace or Dailymotion.
The search engine is indexing the contents of those websites and providing a search engine so that users [...]
