Download Yahoo! Launch music videos to your desktop
Submitted on August 31st, 2005 by admin
Filed under Services and The Mac Side and Software and Video and Windows and Linux
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Yahoo! Launch is a Yahoo! service which offers various music videos and streaming radio, but one of its biggest downfalls is its inability to work with Netscape-based browsers (like Mozilla and Firefox). You’d think in today’s day and age, major companies would support popular alternative browsers, but not in this case. Fortunately, you could always download the videos with a little tweaking and by using the awesome (and free) media player Video Lan Client, or VLC. The best part is that this will work on Windows, Macs, and Linux machines. Read on to learn how.
Access your TiVo media from any device
Submitted on August 13th, 2005 by admin
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Do you have a TiVo but hate the thought of keeping all those recorded shows locked on that little device? How would you like to access those TV shows from your laptop or PocketPC? You can now, thanks to a new application called Orb. Install it, then check out TiVoAnywhere, a free add-on for Orb which will let you do just that. You need to be a TiVoToGo subscriber, but when you’re done setting it all up, you’ll be able to do all kinds of crazy things, including scheduling show recordings from your cellphone.
View any multimedia content on your TiVo
Submitted on August 12th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Audio and The Mac Side and Networking and Software and Windows and Video and Linux
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TiVo is a great piece of equipment which lets you record TV shows and watch them at your leisure, but it would be a better piece of equipment if you could also view your home movies from it, or maybe listen to podcasts or MP3s. Well, now you can, thanks for an amazing open-source project called Galleon. With Galleon, you can stream any type of media from a PC to your TiVo thanks to TiVo’s hidden web server. You can play MP3s, view photo albums, listen to streaming online radio stations via Shoutcast, get weather information, read RSS feeds, read e-mail, get movie times, download podcasts, and more, all from inside your TiVo! Galleon is a Java application and will therefore run on Windows, OSX, and Linux, and being open-source, it’s completely free.
YouTube, share your videos online
Submitted on August 5th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Services and Video
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YouTube is a brand new service which, to make things simple, basically hope to do for video, what Flickr did for images. You can sign up for a free account, upload videos, then tag them, and share them with whoever you want. Videos must be no more than 100MB in size, but that should be plenty to share your home movies with your family or closest friends. Oh, how I love home movies…
Blinkx, how video searching should be
Submitted on July 21st, 2005 by admin
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Don’t get me wrong, I love Google Video, but there is a better way to search for video online thanks to Blinkx. The service works much the say way as Google Video: just type in a search, and browse through video files. The difference between Blinkx and Google Video is that this service puts almost no restriction on what you can and cannot view. You can also choose to search filtered or unfiltered material, filter videos by channel or network, and more. Blinkx even lets you search various streaming audio channels and podcasts. Furthermore, you can create an RSS feed of specific search terms so you can stay up to date on the latest media.
Saving (almost) any multimedia file from a browser to your computer
Submitted on July 10th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Browsers and Audio and Video
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Sometimes you may come upon a webpage with a great video or an amazing piece of Flash, but you may have become disillusioned finding out that you couldn’t save it to your computer for future viewing. With this simple tip, you can, plus neat note that you need to have Firefox installed, and that this will not work with streaming or encapsulated media like Quicktime trailers (we’ll discuss those in the future).
Make your own vlog
Submitted on June 19th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Resources and Video
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Yes, we spelled it correctly…a vlog is simply a video blog, and if you’re interested in making one, VideoBlogging has two nice guides, one for Windows users, and one for Mac loyalists. I don’t quite get the point of a vlog (unless it’s some kind of news show or something), but hey, there’s the info for you. Additionally, check out OurMedia.org to host your vlog. The guides should guide you through that process.
Video away message
Submitted on May 23rd, 2005 by admin
Filed under Video and Windows
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We don’t usually do fun or humorous tips on the site, but I just came upon VideoAwayMessages.com. This site lets you set a little video as your away message if you’re using AIM (does not seem to work with AIM alternatives like GAIM). If you’re tired of regular text away messages and want to add a little humor to them, check it out.
Create a DVD, Part 4 (Put it all together)
Submitted on May 11th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Software and Video and Windows
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In Part 3 you encoded the video file to MPEG2, and learned about the difference between NTSC and PAL video standards. In this part we will be putting the files together to make a DVD from home. There is a section in this part to make the DVD menus, but i’m going to skip over that for now as that will be in a future article. If you haven’t done so already, check out part 1, part 2, and part 3 of this series.
Create a DVD, Part 3 (Encoding the Video)
Submitted on May 11th, 2005 by admin
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In Part 2 we encoded the audio file to MPEG2. This following article is quite similar, but we will be using the video file instead. Let’s start this tutorial by opening up TMPGEnc DVD Source Creator. This part is pretty basic and easy to follow, even for a beginner, but try not to get lost. If you haven’t done so already, check out part 1 and part 2 of this series.
