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Want to skip ahead to 10 per cent, 20 per cent, 80 per cent of the way through whatever YouTube video your roommate sent you? Google made a shortcut that takes you there with the push of a button. Here’s how.
Mac only: QuickTime is a fairly elegant player built into Mac OS X, so why not use it? After installing the Perian component on your system, QuickTime will be able to play nearly any video you throw at it.
The iPad’s potential as a personal video device is handicapped pretty severely by the limited file formats it supports. CineXPlayer, the latest app to sneak past the App Store approval squad, helpfully plays Xvid videos with zero conversion required.
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/Xq9QJVKR_1Q&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":375,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );
Since YouTube’s launch, the longest video you could upload was 10 minutes. No longer! Boing Boing reports that in the near future, that limit will rise to 15 minutes.
Amimon, some of the masters of wireless video signals, just demoed a 3D HD video signal in prototype. Wireless HDTV signals aren’t all that necessary, and 3D is kind of a joke, but its good to know that if the two go mainstream, we’ll be ready with the tech to support all that. [Techon via Engadget]
The long-planned DECE scheme to unify digital downloads into one globally compatible online file format is near completion, with the service – now known as UltraViolet – set to launch this spring. That logo is going to be everywhere.
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13402704&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":375,"ratio":0.75,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo","wrap":true} );
This a test video captured by the iPhone 4 with a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens attached. It’s pretty impressive.
