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Male cat trying to save the life of another (female) cat (assumed partner)

Zack — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:22:36 +0000

This stray cat was filmed in Turkey( Kızılsaray district of Antalya ) trying to reanimate his female friend who got hit by a car. Even though some people tried to help him, the white cat wouldn’t let them come near for two straight hours. Finally a vet arrived and took the injured cat. Sadly, it was too late and he couldnt resuscitate the feline.

Universal Subtitles: Easiest Way to Add Subtitles to Your Videos

Zack — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:24:09 +0000

The lack of captions and subtitles on video is a major obstacle for people with hearing disabilities and a huge language barrier for the whole world.

Universal Subtitles want to give individuals and communities the power to overcome these barriers. The tools we’re building are free and open source and will make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.

Universal Subtitles is an open source, non-profit project.

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VideoJS: HTML5 Video Player with Pure HTML/CSS Skins

Zack — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:08:00 +0000

VideoJS is an amazing HTML5 Video Player. With VideoJS, you don’t need any Flash to play videos. It’s very easy to use, looks cool and open source which means free. It has several nice skins, like VimCSS(Vimeo Skin), HuCSS(Hulu Skin) and TubeCSS(YouTube Skin).

It contains 3 core parts: An embed code, a Javascript library (video.js), and a pure HTML/CSS skin (video-js.css).

Using Video for Everybody as the embed code means you know it’s compatible with many devices (including ones without javascript).

The javascript library fixes browser & device bugs, and makes sure your video is even more compatible across different browser versions.

The pure HTML5/CSS skin ensures a consistent look between HTML5 browsers, and easy custom skinning if you want to give it a specific look, or brand it with your own colors.

Features:

Free & Open Source
Lightweight. NO IMAGES USED
100% skinnable using CSS
Library independent
Easy to use
Easy to understand & extend
Consistent look between browsers
Full Screen & Full Window Modes
Volume Control
Forced fallback to Flash (even when there is an unsupported source)

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Phraseanet: Open Source Digital Asset Management

Zack — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:37:37 +0000

Phraseanet is an open source solution for digital asset management. Digital assets can be virtually anything from photos, videos, audio files to documents. It has quickly evolved as a powerful solution with a usable interface for managing your assets online. This script is based on PHP and MySQL.

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Ads in Video

Zack — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:21:02 +0000

According to Mashable, Ustream is testing text overlays ads in the streams. Their ads are semi-transparent and can be closed by users. I am wondering if I leave the ads alone, will they disappear in several
seconds, or just stand there till the video ends? If I am watching 10
videos, one after one, do I have to close ads for 10 times?

I can understand they want to monetize their website to build a sustainable community. But users make their videos which are the most important things to the website, they didn’t ask for anything, but they deserved something. In my opinion, the most acceptable way to monetize a video website is to share revenue from advertisements with the users depend on views or something like CPM. This is also a good way to encourage users to make more popular videos.

Revver is sharing revenue with users, I think it’s doing better and better, the design of the website is better than before, and the loading speed is even faster, good to see that. The reason I left Revver, is I don’t like their manual review part of video, I have to wait one or two days to see my video online. Sometimes I upload a video, is for my blog, I need to post the video on my blog, I don’t want to wait till tomorrow, because my post have to be done today.