Category: Video

For a long time, the best way to watch YouTube on a mobile device has been through a YouTube app, like the one that comes with the iPhone. The mobile site was confusing to navigate, and not all that attractive to look at. Well, that dusty mobile version has been revised into a pretty, easy-to-use, HTML5-friendly site, and it makes a good case for watching YouTube in your mobile browser again. ...

While there's much ado about Flash support (or lack thereof) on the iPhone and Android, Silverlight hasn't exactly been at the forefront of mobile software discussions in a while. Don't sell Microsoft short, though: Silverlight for Symbian has arrived, and it's the first version of SIlverlight on any mobile platform. The Microsoft rich media player -- not as ubiquitous as Flash, but still useful ...

It's July 4th, so what better way to spend the day than declaring your independence from traditional YouTube comment dickery than coming up with an even better way to be loud and obnoxious? Until Google closes a rather serious hole in YouTube's comment code, you're going to see stuff like the marquee above appearing on YouTube videos all over the place. The "hack" -- if it can even be called ...

Google's been putting out some pretty decent informational videos over the last couple of years, and yesterday they turned their sights on the hardest targets around: Our grandmothers. Granted, the idea behind this video likely applies to more mothers than grandmothers, it's still a good point that Google's making here -- the generation gap is pretty wide when it comes to technology. So, aside ...

Hulu isn't the only online video service shaking things up with ads this week. The Wall Street Journal has YouTube on the record saying they're about to roll out the skippable ads they've been planning since November, so users can jump past an ad a few seconds after it starts. That can't make advertisers happy, right? Well, it might actually be better for everyone. As Hulu is finding out, ...

Hulu's much-anticipated monthly subscription service has arrived. It's called Hulu Plus, and it offers all of the features we've heard rumors about for months: HD streaming, access to more episodes and the ability to watch Hulu on your TV are all included. The price is also just as anticipated: $10/mo. Two things weren't entirely anticipated about Hulu Plus, though. One: iPad and iPhone ...

It wasn't that long ago that VLC finally hit version 1.0. Since then, progress has been steady -- and today, version 1.1 is ready for download just two months after first going beta. So what's new in VLC 1.1? First and foremost, hardware acceleration has arrived for VLC users who run Windows Vista and Windows 7 or Linux. MKV HD support has been improved, and VLC 1.1 can now play VP-8 and ...

It's pretty amazing what $6,000 USD can accomplish when there are enough people willing to work for free. That's how much the pilot episode of Pioneer One cost to shoot, and the entire amount was raised at Kickstarter. The series is the latest indie-project to be brought to the P2P universe by VODO, which stands for VOluntary DOnation. VODO works to bring indie films -- that wouldn't otherwise be ...

As of last night, you can now edit your YouTube videos in the browser. Just visit the YouTube 'idea incubator', TestTube, and click Video Editor. It's a simple editor -- attempting to do anything more complicated is still a year away, I think -- but it does spell the beginning of the 'final cloud frontier'. Video has long remained one of the few formats that shies away from cloud processing: ...

Good news if you use FFmpeg in your video app or if you're simply running an application which uses FFmpeg to process video -- and let's face it, there are a ton. Version 0.6 has just been released, and among other things it adds support for Google's recently open sourced VP8 codec and the WebM container. AAC and H.264 decoding have also gotten a shot in the arm. More detail about the release ...

If you missed the Google I/O keynote announcing the new Google TV service, I have good news! In fact, even if you saw the keynote presentation, you'll want to watch this video -- it's a lot smoother, easier to understand and a whole lot more concise than the slow-going oh-damn-we-have-Wi-Fi-interference Professor Charles Francis Xavier-esque demonstration. There isn't anything new feature-wise ...

YouTube announced today that it's teaming up with the Guggenheim Museum and HP to put on the first "Biennial of Creative Video" -- and they're calling it YouTube Play. The project's goal is to gather the very best videos on YouTube and display the 20 best nominees in Guggenheim museums around the globe. What constitutes the "best" in YouTube videos? They're surprisingly broad in that respect, ...

Our trusty sister site, Engadget, just hit on another effort to bring Flash to the iPad. We already told you about Smokescreen, which involves a complex process of converting Flash video image-by-image into an iOS-friendly format. It's still mostly only good for ads, and it's not interactive. That's why Artefact Group's new "Flash in a Pinch" for iPad could be a big deal. Instead of ...

Whether you're on Team Apple or Team Adobe in the whole Flash vs. HTML5 brouhaha, you really can't dispute just how nice some of the new HTML5 and CSS3 features are, and while Microsoft was quick to throw a demo page up to tout IE9's capabilities, Apple for some reason waited until yesterday to post one for Safari. ...And they locked it down with user-agent detection to allow only people using ...

A Flash player written using native JavaScript and HTML might be the key to playing Flash video on the iPhone and iPad without Steve Jobs and Adobe ever settling their differences. Smokescreen can already play basic Flash animations, but is still too slow to provide a smooth video experience, according to our sister site, Engadget. It's a start, though, and it's definitely an exciting proof of ...