Digital Video

Software

Apple Pulls VLC From The iOS App Store

9:11AM January 9, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

We were pretty excited when VLC, our favourite multi-format video player, dropped for iOS, but it looks like the sun has already set on that glorious endeavor. Just as we’d heard it might, VLC has been removed from the App Store—though not at Apple’s request. Rémi Denis-Courmont, a lead contributor to the project, decided that the the DRM in the App Store violated the GNU public licence, requesting that Apple remove it. We’re not sure we buy this interpretation of the GPL, and it doesn’t quite make sense that it takes what was a completely free and easily available app away from millions of users. Worse, it doesn’t set the best precedent for other open source projects, especially with the Mac App Store having similar DRM features. We hope you all grabbed your copy while you had a chance. [via TUAW] More »

Cameras

Nexus One Shoots 720p Video After Hack

8:36PM June 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Be very careful if you’re planning on rooting your Nexus One (or any phone, for that matter), to install this 720p video hack. If you know what you’re doing, please proceed… More »

Online

NBC, Time Warner Tell Apple They’re Sticking With Flash

12:51AM May 28, 2010 | Adam Frucci

It sounds like not everybody is ready to just throw Flash out the window because Steve Jobs told them too, as Time Warner and NBC have just told Apple they’re happy to stick with it for their online video players. More »

Software

Opera Finds Flash Unappetising For Web Video

7:20AM May 7, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Speaking to TechRadar, Opera product analyst Phillip Grønvold conceded that Flash is essential to today’s web and will be for the foreseeable future. But for internet video, he says, there are alternatives that won’t make your laptop a stove top. More »

Software

Is H.264 A Legal Minefield For Video Pros?

6:00AM May 5, 2010 | Stephen Shankland - CNET

If you’re a digital-video professional – someone who records weddings, sells stock footage or edits B-roll – chances are good you deal with H.264. But after reading software licence agreements, you might well wonder if you have rights to do so. More »

Cameras

World’s Smallest DV Cam Could Reveal World’s Largest Scandal

3:40AM June 13, 2009 | Mark Wilson

In the era of HD, you thought good old DV was dead? Wrong! Because manufacturers can now make these low resolution cameras smaller than ever. More »

Entertainment

Warner Bros. to Offer DivX Downloads

11:00PM October 14, 2008 | John Mahoney

Already the format of choice for, ahem, somewhat clandestine distribution of digital video files, DivX has now officially partnered with Warner Bros. to distribute video in the format. Sony beat WB to the punch by about 9 months, and we’ll have to wait even longer for Warner to come around to HD DivX, which won’t be ready until September of next year. SD downloads are expected to become available this month. Full details follow.

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