Embed Quicktime Movies into a WordPress Blog
March 27, 2008
This is really cool, but it’s only for WordPress blogs hosted yourself, and not the ones like this one hosted at WordPress.com. But maybe (surely?) it will come to WordPress.com soon. In the meanwhile, the video player that they have as an upgrade at WordPress.com is not bad. It’s wide aspect ratio. I think its still some kind of flash, but it seems clearer.
But I digress. For those who have WordPress blogs hosted on other servers, I found this site that developed a Plug-In that allows you to embed Quicktime movies into your WordPress posts. Channel-Ai’s plugin has a couple different cool features that allow you to display the movie and controls in a couple of different ways. Examples and a download of the program are all right there on their site.
*One side note to save you a little trouble. When you size your movie, make sure you size it in the post at least as large as you sized it when you the rendered the movie. This may sound like a no brainer, but I used the default sizes that Ai has demonstrated, and I wondered why my movie was missing its controls. My movie itself was rendered in something like 285 height, while I had plugged in their 240 number, so I had no controls! Duh! Just something to keep in mind
How To Embed A Quicktime Video
March 1, 2008
You’ve bought an Apple. You took the plunge. You just made your first Imovie and put a real sound track behind it with one of your favorite songs. You sized it into a cool looking 16:9 ratio, and best of all it looks, unlike Youtube and other flash rendering machines, CLEAR! YaHoo! (Oh, is that how they came up with that name?)
But how do you put it in your webpage? No, I don’t mean just have a link to the file, but really embed it into your page, so that it looks like your somebody, that you mean business. I ran across a real cool page today that takes your quicktime movie and automatically renders the HTML code you need to embed it into your page! Stick your movie in their (or rather the link where you uploaded it) and Presto! Out the other side comes the HTML! I’ve wanted for so long to have an embedded player that had a wide screen ratio and looked half way clear like my original video footage. Quicktime , or rather the CIT at UCSF, is the answer.
http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php
*NOTE: Here’s the bummer part: the code doesn’t work on Myspace or Orkut. I’m really surprised it doesn’t work on Myspace because I thought they rendered any HTML you wanted. And in the Orkut Scrap boxes you can put HTML. So I don’t know why it doesn’t work there either, when it works perfectly fine written in my text editor and rendered by a browser. Maybe there are some Geeks out there, who are geekier than I, that can enlighten me. Maybe it has something to do with there being no player inside those systems. But I don’t understand that. If Quicktime is on the machine wouldn’t the browser render it, play it when it reads the HTML inside those systems also? Obviously there’s some reason.
Can you imagine how much you’d rock if you could post Quicktime movies in your Myspace and Orkut? Oh, how I dream…
Sun Acquires MySQL
February 27, 2008
Interview with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL.
This interview was by Robert Scoble. He did it on his Nokia N95, and it was intended to stream live via Qik, but there were some problems with the servers or something, so only a few minutes of footage got live. He recorded the rest of the interview and uploaded it to Viddler which I imbeded above. The few minutes that did go live are here on Qik.
I have no idea what MySQL is or does, and I barely know what Sun does, but every time I hear Jonathan Schwartz speak I’m always so interested. He’s intriguing in the calmest of manners. It’s a soothing excitement to hear him speak. Actually, I also always liked to listen to Scott McNealy, the previous Sun CEO as well. He and Jonathan, and all the Sun events I ever saw, gave me the same kind of excitement that Steve Jobs and Apple events do.
That’s why its such a mystery to me why Sun isn’t more successful than they are, and why you can’t figure out their direction, or why they haven’t taken the world by storm with some innovation. They always talk about how big their R&D is, so you’d think there be something like a Google pop out of there. Jonathan actually did hint at something during the interview, when Scoble was prodding him, towards the area of a backup service like Amazon’s S3 is doing. So maybe Sun will be known for something like that.
All I know is that, I wish I did know what MySQL is, and that I could build a Facebook or something as successful too!
Truly Live From SXSW with Qik and Scoble
February 26, 2008
I know that I wrote earlier how you could attend SXSW virtually through the Viddler site, and that is cool, but it’s still recorded video. This is actually LIVE video streamed from SXSW while the events are actually happening! Streamed from a cell phone!!!!! Is this the new journalism or what? Scoble is taking all these things to the Nth degree, but somebody has to. Somebody has to break the inertia. Good for him.
Qik is the coolest thing ever. And Robert Scoble is making it famous. First for his live reports, broadcast directly to the internet from a cellphone, from Davos. And now he is at SXSW, and while he is at conferences he is broadcasting live, so that you can watch in real time. You can go to his Qik site to see the live streams when he is doing them which he usually notifies by Twitter, and you can see all the videos he has shot in archive as well. I thought Twitter was cool, and it is, but this is just unreal, taking it to another level. I’m just pissed because I’m on a CDMA carrier, and doesn’t seem that you can get any CDMA Nokia phones, and Qik seems to only work with Nokia phones.
Can’t Attend SXSW? Go Virtually!
February 21, 2008
This is so cool. Anybody can upload videos from the festival, so it’s like getting a first hand experience. You should be able to experience many unique points of view. It says you’ll be able to see everything: Interviews, Conversations, Shows, Panels, and MeTodays. Should be fun. And since its powered by Viddler, you get pop up annotations to the videos.
