video archive

YouTube is a cable network with nothing but public access on. There are literally billions of videos and with over two billion video views per day, there are a lot of people tuned in. Most recently YouTube has become a place for companies to post interesting content for consumption by general users. We just launched one of these channels for Cisco The reason they are posting it on YouTube rather than on their own websites is obviously the audience, but it also indicates on a broader sense the acceptance by corporations as a place to invest. What this means to YouTube (and Google) is a change in the opportunity to convert YouTube as a place for premium paid content. Read More…

Like any Drupal themer, I've done my share of grumbling about the frequently ridiculous level of nested divs with dozens of classes. I'd heard some people mention a module called Semantic Views, but I never really understood what it was for until I found this video. If you don't understand what the big deal is either, take the four minutes to watch. It's a total "ah-ha!" moment. I'm happy to say that I just used Semantic Views for the first time on a client site, and it's just as awesome as everyone says. It saved me a ton of work and let me get exactly the markup I wanted, even while working around Chuck's nested views. Read More…

The codec wars around the HTML5 video element might be settled sooner than you think: Basically, Google just open-sourced VP8, a video codec. VP8 is being combined with the Vorbis audio codec to create a new video format called WebM. Read More…

It's well known the iPhone can play H.264 video. With tools like ffmpeg, hooking this up to Drupal ought to be simple, right? Here are a few snags I hit, and how to resolve them. Read More…