Multimedia Gear Talk

T-Mobile Angry Birds Live and Bike Lanes

2011-06-12T20:28:00.000-07:00

Today I found two videos that are very funny on YouTube. The first video's title is "T-Mobile Angry Birds Live" and the second is "bike lanes". You really shouldn't miss these two videos as they are really very funny and special.

Check Leawo Free YouTube Downloader if you want to download them from YouTube - http://www.leawo.com/youtube-download/

T-Mobile Angry Birds Live

If you have a smartphone or iPod, you might have played the popular game Angry Birds many times. Angry Birds first appears on Apple's iOS devices, such as iPhone and iPod in December 2009, and costs $0.99 to download from App Store. The game has quickly become the most popular mobile phone game and has been downloaded more than 50 million times since its release.

A few days ago, T-Mobile hosted a commercial campaign which is very special. The commercial took place in Barcelona, Spain to show a live version of Angry Birds. It got in on the live shooting using a smartphone to control the real-time action. You can see red birds, blue birds, black birds and exploding green pigs in your real life. Maybe you've seen a lot of Angry Birds live shows before, but this one is the best. Here is the video of the commercial.

bike lanes

A guy was fined 50 dollars by a cop for riding his bicycle not in the bike lane. He is angry about this and thinks that it's unfair. This guy then made a short video depicting this case and showing some obstructions that keeps him from riding in the bike lane. Personally I support the bike rider. The video is a good public service announcement.

Enjoy YouTube 3D Videos on NVIDIA 3D Vision machines in Firefox Web Browser

2011-05-26T21:33:00.000-07:00

YouTube has been working on 3D video streaming for a long time. I remember that last July, YouTube declared that it would fully support 3D video streaming in the next 12 months. Now the prediction becomes true. Today, Nvidia and Mozilla officially announced that they begin to support 3D HTML5 YouTube video streaming on desktop machines equipped with Nvidia 3D Vision hardware. Currently, web browsers don't support this new feature except Mozilla Firefox 4; and there have been thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube. From now on, you can enjoy videos in theater-quality and full-resolution 3D on YouTube on your laptops or PCs.

Several things are needed before you experience the stereoscopic 3D on YouTube, they are:

1. NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped desktop machines
2. latest NVIDIA GeForce® drivers (version 275 or above)
3. Mozilla Firefox web browser (version 4 or above)
4. 3D glasses
5. Check the HTML5 option on the player of a YouTube 3D video.

Now check the 3D YouTube video below and tell us how do you like the new 3D experience. And don't forget you can download YouTube videos with this Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Below is the full PR via Nvidia:

NVIDIA 3D Vision Video Now Available Worldwide on YouTube

Users Can Easily Share and Enjoy High-Quality, Stereoscopic 3D Videos on YouTube With Their NVIDIA 3D Vision PCs

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/26/2011 -- NVIDIA today announced that YouTube is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in rich, high-quality stereoscopic 3D on their NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ PCs and notebooks when using the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

"We're excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube," said Jonathan Huang, 3D Product Manager at YouTube. "By embracing these open standards, NVIDIA 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube's library of 3D content."

"Firefox with 3D Vision creates a stunning and smooth 3D video experience using HTML5 video based on open standards," said Jay Sullivan, VP of Products at Mozilla. "3D Vision from NVIDIA is a great example of the rich, innovative experiences that are being built on top of the speed and graphics power that Firefox delivers to the Web."

"Sales of our ASUS G series notebooks with 3D Vision have been strong," said Ben Thacker, vice president of Systems Business Group-Distribution, ASUS North America. "Now that users can view YouTube videos in high-quality 3D, we expect interest in the ASUS 3D Vision models to grow significantly."

With a number of new, consumer 3D video cameras launched this year, YouTube's support of NVIDIA 3D Vision technology extends its existing commitment to 3D, enabling even more consumers and 3D enthusiasts to share their 3D videos online. With attractively priced models now available from JVC, Sony and other leading vendors, users now have another easy way to capture and post high-quality 3D videos on YouTube, 3DVisionLive.com, or even their own websites by embedding the YouTube 3D video player.

To further showcase the new YouTube stereoscopic 3D video streaming capabilities and some of the latest professional and user-generated 3D YouTube videos, NVIDIA is now hosting the top YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos on its 3D web community site at www.3DVisionLive.com/YT3D.

"YouTube 3D on an NVIDIA 3D Vision PC is an amazing experience," said Phil Eisler, general manager of 3D Vision at NVIDIA. "Now 3D Vision PC users can enjoy over 525 games, YouTube videos and photos in theater-quality, full-resolution 3D."

To view YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos an NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped PC or notebook and the latest NVIDIA GeForce® drivers (version 275 or above) are required, as well as Firefox (version 4 or above), which includes support for HTML5 video streaming. Users will also need to select the HTML5 viewing option when viewing a YouTube 3D video: http://www.youtube.com/select_3d_mode.

In addition, with NVIDIA 3DTV Play™ software, users can connect their PCs to their 3D HDTVs to enjoy 3D YouTube videos on the "big screen" in the comfort of their living rooms.

Taylor Swift - Mean Music Video

2011-05-25T23:18:00.000-07:00

Last Octerber, Taylor Swift released her third studio album 'Speak Now'. The album was very successful as it debuted with the year's biggest sales at 1.04 million. The song I'm going to introduce today is just from this album; it's 'Mean'. Last week, music video of 'Mean' was released. Both the song and the music video have received mainly positive reviews. Lots of fans think that it's the best video of hers since 'You Belong with Me'.

The music video of 'Mean' is here. You can also go to YouTube Taylor Swift VEVO's Channel to watch the clip. You can download it to your computer or smart phone with this YouTube Downloader program, so that you can watch it off-line.

Just as Billboard's review to the video, it 'encourages bully victims'. There are several bully victims in the video: Swift herself tied to the tracks by a villain, the boy reading a fashion magazine bullied by the football team in a locker room, the girl with a fast-food uniform bullied by a group of high schoolers, and the girl forced to eat in the school bathroom. In the end, all the bullied victims become 'big enough' and not be bullied any more.

I appreciate the theme of the video. It encourages people who are being bullied or discriminated that: don't give up, just hold up, as you're right and you will be successful in the end.

Good song and adorable video. 'Mean' was released on October 17, 2010, solely written by Swift herself. The music video premiered on May 6, 2011 and was directed by Declan Whitebloom.

Taylor Swift - Mean lyrics

You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me,
You, have knocked me off my feet again,
Got me feeling like I'm nothing.
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I'm wounded.
You, pickin' on the weaker man.

Well you can take me down,
With just one single blow.
But you don't know, what you don't know,

Someday, I'll be living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so mean?

You, with your switching sides,
And your walk by lies and your humiliation
You, have pointed out my flaws again,
As if I don't already see them.
I walk with my head down,
Trying to block you out cause I'll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again.

I bet you got pushed around,
Somebody made you cold,
But the cycle ends right now,
You can't lead me down that road,
You don't know, what you don't know

Someday, I'll be, living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so mean?

And I can see you years from now in a bar,
Talking over a football game,
With that same big loud opinion but,
Nobody's listening,
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things,
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing.

But all you are is mean,
All you are is mean.
And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life,
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean

But someday, I'll be, living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean. Yeah,
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so ?
Someday, I'll be, living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean. Yeah,
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so mean?

Beyonce Receives Billboard Millennium Award and Performs Run the World (Girls) at Billboard Music Awards

2011-05-24T22:43:00.000-07:00

Recently, Beyonce has been the most popular singer all over the Internet and the real world. She premiered Run the World (Girls) music video last week. The video received millions of views everyday on YouTube. She has just received the Billboard Millennium Award at Billblard Music Awards aired on ABC on May 22. During the awards ceremony, the 29-year-old recording artist performs her latest single Run the World (Girls) with a lot of female dancers. Then she was presented the Millennium Award and made a speech to thank all the people suppports her.

Here is Beyoncé - Who Run The World Girls performance video on YouTube. You can download it for free with Leawo Free YouTube Download software.

Run The World (Girls) is the lead single off Beyonce's upcoming studio album 4. Last week, the accompanying music video was just released on American Idol and her official website. The video has drawn 20 million views on YouTube in just 7 days! However, the "female-empowerment" song video has attracted a flood of opposition - getting 46,460 dislikes among 138,522 votes. Beyonce performs the song on the stage of Billboard Music Awards and receives the Millennium Award, declaring that the ladies revolution has begun and women is going to rule the world.

YouTube Tests New Ad Scheme 'First Watch'

2011-05-23T22:42:00.000-07:00

Online video giant YouTube is just getting bigger and bigger. More and more companies want to improve their awareness through YouTube. Also, YouTube has been working on its advertising efficiency. It's said that YouTube is tesing a new advertisement scheme called 'First Watch'. So far there have been only two reports about the new advertising program. So I'm going to pick the keypoints from these two reports.

The first report is posted by New York Times. Below are the keypoints of this report:
1. Recently, more and more Internet users' attitude towards 'pre-roll' ad over a video have softened.
2. The new ad program 'First Watch' is to expand the opportunities for advertisers. This kind of ad appears only once when a user views a video on YouTube the first time each day.
3. 'First Watch' is currently rather successful. As Baljeet Singh, senior product manager for video monetization at YouTube said:"The commercials on the youtube.com home page have been "highly successful[..]"
4. The First Watch program is only available to YouTube partners.
5. Here are some advertisers who have been involved in 'First Watch': Tommy Hilfiger, Hotels.com, the Lifetime cable channel, the Macy's unit of Macy's Inc. and Virgin Mobile.
6. The new ad delivery scheme is generating click through rates at about 1 percent, which is higher than normal advertising.
7. The advertisers declined to discuss what YouTube was charging them for the First Watch preroll. But it's "but less expensive" than YouTube YouTube charges normally.

The second report is from the TheNextWeb.com. Generally, it has some similar views with the first report. So I will not go into the detail of it.

Off topic:

Don' know how to download video from YouTube? You can check Leawo YouTube Downloader software, which is free and non-virus.

Google Chrome, Lady Gaga, Edge of Glory, Advertisement

2011-05-22T20:56:00.000-07:00

You might think the title of this post is so strange. I just don't know how to express myself about knowing this news in a sentence.

The news is that Google Chrome has shot a short video advertisement with Lady Gaga featuring her fans; and the background music of the video is Gaga's new single 'The Edge of Glory'! Little monsters, now paws up and watch this amazing video. To download it, you can use Leawo YouTube Downloader.

Google Chrome is my favorite web browser. Lady Gaga is one of my favorite pop singers. Google Chrome makes me browse web pages more faster than using other web browsers. Lady Gaga bring me good music and teach me to be proud of myself. I mean both Chrome and Gaga make me a better life to live. I appreciate them much.

Just as ChipChick said:"The commercial is quite brilliant and pretty much a win-win for both Gaga and Google, since it helps Gaga promote her upcoming Edge of Glory single as well as Google Chrome to all of Gaga's fans."

It took Gaga and Google 10 days to shoot the video ad (from May 8th to May 18th). Let's As Gaga's The Edge of Glory begins, the video shows that Gaga contacts her fans with Google's owned developed web browse – Chrome and tells the little monsters:"listen up, little monsters!". Then Gaga is seen running on a bridge. In fact, the bridge is Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The video continues with Gaga's fans' own-made covers of The Edge of Glory. The videos switches scenes between Gaga dancing on the bridge and contacting with her fans in front of a computer, telling them 'you are all beautiful' and 'You're all superstars. You inspire me!'. It's a touching video though it's an advertisement.

And don't forget that Gaga's Born This Way album is going to hit the web tomorrow!

Download Viva Riva! Movie Trailer from YouTube

2011-05-19T23:09:00.000-07:00

Today we talk about an African movie - Viva Riva!.

African movies rarely have the ability to step into the International film big stage, except a few South African movies. Viva Riva! is an African movie and has successfully brought international attention, but it's a Congolese movie, surprise? The film was co-produced by Congo, South Africa and France and was the biggest winner at the 7th African Movie Academy Awards in 2011 winning awards including Best Production Design, Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

YouTube hosts the official trailer of 'Viva Riva!' so you can go to YouTube and watch the trailer to have a general idea of the film. You can download Viva Riva! movie trailer from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader, which is totally free.

'Viva Riva!' trailer is here: http://youtu.be/GyjBiIgafGY

Let me explain the film's name first. Riva is a Congolese male name; Viva is a new English word which means Hoory or Long Live. Riva is the main male character and has done some striking things in the film. It's a crime thriller film and was directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga.

Storyline of Viva Riva!

Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment.

Cast

Patsha Bay - Riva
Manie Malone - Nora
Hoji Fortuna - Cesar
Marlene Longage - the Commandant
Alex Herabo
Diplôme Amekindra

More information

Directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Produced by Michaël Goldberg, Steven Markovitz, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Boris Van Gils
Written by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Editing by Yves Langlois, Pascal Latil
Release date(s) September 10, 2010 (Canada), February 18, 2011 (UK)
Running time 96 minutes

Screengrabs of the film

Lady Gaga - Hair Single Premiered

2011-05-18T21:02:00.000-07:00

Haven't updated this blog for almost 7 months since last October. So sorry for my laziness. This blog is one of my multimedia theme blog series. As I love music, video and movies, I would update it with articles about viral videos, popular music singles or albums, and hot movies in the upcoming days. Thanks for your interest in my blog and hope I can offer you more and better information in the future.

Today I would like to talk about Mother Monster Lady Gaga's new 'Born This Way' single 'Hair'. Her BTW album will be released next Monday on May 23, 2011. 'Hair', the BTW single, was released to iTunes for digital download this Monday afternoon. Now listen to the song from the YouTube audio clip below and tell us how do you like it in the comment section.

To download the song, check Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

So far 4 singles from the forthcoming album has been released, they are 'Born This Way', 'Judas', 'The Edge of Glory' and 'Hair'. Gaga has expressed who she is very well with these songs. 'Born This Way' tells us that we all born in a special way and just be confident no matter who you are. 'Judas' is a metaphor for the darkness in your mind, "honoring your darkness in order to bring yourself into the light", as Gaga explained the song's meaning. 'The Edge of Glory' is inspired by the death of her grandfather. As for 'Hair', it's similar to 'Born This Way', preaches the importance of embracing your personality and being comfortable with who you are.

From the song, I think Gaga remembers where she came from and how she grew her personality in her adolescence. Gaga was thought to be different from her classmates whe she was in high school. At that time, her look, her clothes and her hair are 'wired' in her parents' eyes. Previously, Gaga said that "My mom would even cut my hair when I was asleep because I had really long split hairs, because I liked it really long like a hippy", as reported by Contact Music. As you can imagine the feeling that Gaga wants to express in the song.

Here is the lyrics of Lady Gaga – Hair

[Lady Gaga - Verse 1]

Whenever I dress cool,
My parents put up a fight
And if I'm a hotshot,
Mom will cut hair at night
In the morning I'm sure of my identity
I scream Mom and Dad
Why can't I be who I wanna be?

I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to love me for who I am
I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to know, I am my Hair

[Chorus]

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
I'm not a freak
I must keep fighting to stay cool on the streets

I've had enough, enough, enough
And this is my prayer, I swear
I'm as free as my hair

[Lady Gaga - Verse 2]

Sometimes I want to rock on some highlights
Just because
I want my friend to think that I am dynamite
And on party, roxy, high school dance
I got my bangs too hard
That I don't stand a chance
A chance

I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to love me for who I am
I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to know, I am my Hair

[Chorus]
I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
I'm not a freak
I must keep fighting to stay cool on the streets

I've had enough, enough, enough
And this is my prayer, I swear
I'm as free as my hair

[Bridge]

I just want to be free, I just want to be me
And I want lots of friends that invite me to their parties

I don't wanna change,
And I don't wanna be ashamed
I'm the spirit of my Hair
It's all the glory that I bare
I am my Hair!

I'm my hair, I am my hair
It's all the glory that I bare
I'm my hair-am my hair
I'm my hair-am my hair yeah!

[Chorus]

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
This is my prayer
That I'll die living just as free as my hair

I've had enough
I'm not a freak
I must keep fighting to stay cool on the streets

I've had enough, enough, enough
And this is my prayer, I swear
I'm as free as my hair

YouTube Uploading Tips for Video Editing Tools on Apple

2010-10-10T22:56:00.001-07:00

If your video uploaded to YouTube is in high definition, YouTube will offers the option to view the video in high definition, such as 1080p resolution. Online video in high definition is good for both uploader and YouTube, and will be more and more popular in the future.

*You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download normal YouTube videos to your computer. The paid version of Leawo YouTube Downloader can download high definition videos from YouTube.*

Some of the users may have these questions: How to upload videos in high definition to YouTube? How to use video editing tools to optimize the video for uploading to YouTube?

Below tips are for the Apple users as they use the video editing tools for YouTube uploads.

If you're a Quicktime Pro, Finalcut Pro, or iMovies user, check out the following tips on how to export your video files and get the best results out of uploading to YouTube and the transcoding of your files.

* iMovie:
File -> Export -> Compress movie for: Expert Settings -> Share -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options
* Finalcut Pro:
File -> Export -> Using Quicktime Conversion -> Options
* QuickTime Pro:
File -> Export -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options

In the Options box:

1. In the Video section set the following parameters:
* Compression Type: H.264
* Frame Rate: 30
* Data Rate: Automatic
(if you choose to restrict the Data Rate, make sure to choose the highest value acceptable to you - more bits = better quality)
* Key Frames: Automatic
* Frame Reording: Unchecked

2. In the Video section click "Size":
Dimensions: Set this to the original size of your video (Note: HD resolutions preferred- 1280x720 or 1920x1080)

3. In the "Prepare for internet Streaming" section:
Select the "Prepare for internet Streaming" and choose "Fast Start" from the drop-down menu.

4. In the Audio section, make sure that the audio codec is AAC. Always use AAC as the preferred audio codec.

5. Once you've made all of these selections, click the "OK" button to save your preferences.

6. Add a title to the video file and click the "Save" button to save your edited version of your movie. Your project will then be exported and be ready to upload to YouTube.

Note:
The tips in green are important. Please make sure you format your files accordingly.

Source is YouTube World.

How to Download Google Videos and Convert to AVI

2010-10-09T00:12:00.001-07:00

This question actually involves two aspects: download Google videos from video.google.com first and then convert them to AVI format.

The tutorial below will take Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and Leawo Free FLV Converter for example to show you how to download Google videos and convert downloaded Google videos to AVI. Leawo Free YouTube Downloader can download Google Videos, videos from YouTube, and other video sharing websites. And Leawo Free FLV Converter can convert those downloaded Google videos to other video formats like AVI and many other more.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downlaoder, type video.google.com in the address bar.

Step 2: Search and choose one Google video to play. A monitor message prompt from the right bottom corner of screen will remind users that a specific video has been found, ignore it or choose "Don't Ask Me Again" to close this prompt dialog.

Tips: you can also enter the video key words in the searching bar, and choose the target video site where the searching engine is going to perform the video search.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the downloading process of the selected Google video and watch it in the built-in FLV player at the same time.

Step 4: When the downloading completes, indicated by a yellow smiley, click "Download" button to save the downloaded Google video to the appointed folder on your PC. A green tick will appear when the saving process is finished.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to convert the downloaded Google video to AVI if you want the format conversion.

Step 6: Leawo Free FLV Converter will be invoked now. Select AVI as the target video format and click the green button to convert Google video to AVI immediately.

Reshipment from YouTube World.

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two)

2010-10-08T00:22:00.001-07:00

The YouTube Rentals Beta I'm going to introduce is a pay-to-view model on YouTube. It provides content owners a new way to generate revenue from their home-made videos on the site. YouTube Rentals allows partners the flexibility to benefit from a variety of videos, complete control over their video content and pioneering use of the world's largest online video community.

(Want to download videos from YouTube and all other video sites? Just use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.)

Currently, the YouTube Rentals Beta service is available only to the content owners in the US.

Want your content on YouTube be available for people to rent? You can Apply Now.

Create the best rental experience

From the YouTube Rentals service, partners can get unprecedented flexibility and control over monetization, marketing, and distribution for online video.

Full control of your rights, dissemination of time, rental prices and lease.
You can choose to provide some content via the ad-supported model or make some free content for promotional purposes, to maximize your control over profit, marketing and distribution strategies.
Try using different prices, service time and the lease to improve the attractiveness of a specific video.
You can grow your audience on YouTube, learn what they like to watch, and tailor your content offering by tracking view trends.

Expand your audience and profit

If you are a YouTube partner, you will be able to benefit from this new revenue opportunities, and expand your influence via the world's largest online video community.

Learn a new way to distribute and earn profit from your online content. Create a new revenue stream by making video archived, offline video, or new videos available for rent online.
To communicate directly with your audience, announce new uploaded content or offline published content.
Exposure to a large audience. YouTube is the largest online video site and the third largest site in the world. （comScore，2009）

If you are already a YouTube partner and still have a question, you can go to the YouTube Rental Support page.

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two) is over. In the next part, I will introduce how to become a YouTube partner.

Source is YouTube World.

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner

2010-09-30T01:18:00.001-07:00

If you have quality original videos and expanding audience on YouTube, you can apply for a YouTube partner to earn money from the plan.

Benefits of YouTube partner
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website in the world. Its traffic is much more than its competitors. (Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a perfect tool to download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites, click here to read its manual.)

Being a YouTube partner has the following benefits listed below:

1. Revenue

As a YouTube partner, you will be able to enjoy opportunities to create revenue.

Earn money from the embedded advertisement on your video and advertisement beside your video.

Share income from your video rental.

Gain the opportunies of co-marketing and branded entertainment with top brand advertiser.

Use your own marketing channel to sell your own advertisement

2. Video statistics analytics

Use YouTube's Insight analytics tools to optimize your existing content and create more targeted content to satisfy your audience and advertisers.

Learn more characteristics of your audience and what they are watching.

Learn more about how your audience find your video.

Learn more about how are you and your competitors doing in terms of competition.

Learn what content you have is the most popular & engaging.

Tells you where your video is really successful, and where it is not good enough at a video level.

3. Protection

YouTube can protect both of your video content and brand.

Protects the integrity of your brand through the branded channel options available only to partners.

In addition, YouTube offers many Content Management tools for copyright protection that anyone may use, regardless of whether they are in a partnership with YouTube.

Rental of your videos are delivered via secure streaming way, to avoid downloading by other people.

4. Video quality

YouTube will process your uploaded video in reliable way, and display them on YouTube at the highest resolution as far as possible.

To those videos which are hot and attractive, YouTube will offer HD version accordingly.

Offers aspect ration of 16:9 for video players.

Join the ranks of YouTube's other high-quality video providers already in the Partner Program.

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) is over. In the next part, I'm going to tell you the YouTube video rental plan and how to become a YouTube partner.

Source is YouTube World.

How to Download Online Videos

2010-09-28T20:10:00.001-07:00

If the online video you come across is played with an Adobe Flash Player, then you may use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it off to your computer! Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a free all-in-one video downloader which can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion and other video sharing websites as long as they are played with Adobe Flash Player.

Suppose you are going to download videos with this video downloader, the easiest way is to drag the YouTube video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and then the video downloader will begin the downloading automatically.

Of course, you can also type the URL in the program address bar, this applies to all the video sites, for example, Google Video. Browse videos in its built-in FLV player with high speed, then download them to your appointed folder within just a click, and convert them directly to the format you want for your phone and portable media player.

The tutorial below will take YouTube and Google Video respectively for example to show how to free download video.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, click settings icon, choose "Show hover window on program startup" in "General" tab from the pop-up window.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in IE or any browser, choose the one you want to download, and then drag the selected video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the video downloading progress. When the downloading completes, double click the downloaded video, you could play it with the built-in player, or click "Download" button to save the downloaded video to your PC.

Step 4: For downloading Google video and other online videos, type the URL in the address bar and choose one Google video to play. Then repeat the Step 3 shown above.

Source is Leawo Software user guide.

Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube

2010-09-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

YouTube accepts a wide range of video formats uploaded by users. The below video formats are all accepted by YouTube. Some of them have the best visual effect on YouTube. You can take a look at them and tune your video formats for YouTube.

List of some well-known formats which YouTube supports:

WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
.AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
.MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
.WMV
.MP4
.FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

YouTube accepts all of the above video formats uploaded from users. To most users, we find that the below video settings have the best visual effect:
Video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 recommended
Aspect ratio: Original screen aspect ration without top or bottom black border, for example, 4:3, 16:9
Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) Recommended
Audio format: MP3 or AAC Recommended
FPS (Frame per second): 30
Video length limit: 15 minutes (2 to 3 minutes recommended)
Video size limit: 1 GB

Tips:
a. If you think your video won't be accepted by YouTube, you can convert it to video format MPEG4 with audio format MP3 to get the best visual effect.

b. To convert any video format to the 'YouTube supported video formats', you can use some free or paid video converter. Good Freeware for this purpose are FormatFactory or FFMPEG. The former is graphic user interface, while the latter is command line user interface.

c. By default, Windows Movie Maker will save your video item as . MSWMM file. MSWMM is project file, which is not accepted by YouTube on uploading. To upload your Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube, please choose 'save it to my computer' option to save your video project as an accepted video format, and then you can upload the saved video to YouTube.

d. To download videos from YouTube, you can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, which is free and clean.

Source is YouTube World.

waka waka - Shakira's song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

2010-06-12T03:54:00.000-07:00

Are you ready to the imminent 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa? Because this great quadrennial worldwide football game is coming today on Jun. 11, 2010!

The World Cup theme song - waka waka (This Time For Africa), is created and sang by Shakira, a famous Colombia Latin singer. Waka waka is a verb in the language of Creole in Africa, its meaning is "flame, shine, warmly burn". Added the the South Africa's guitar solo background music with rhythm , this song has a strong flavor of Africa. Shakira will performance this song together with South Africa's local band Freshlyground on this World Cup closing ceremony.

As the World Cup theme song singer, the Latin singing queen Shakira said, "African music has the power of inspiring, and be reckoned in the global popular culture. I'm very proud that waka waka (This Time For Africa) is chosen to be the theme song of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. FIFA World Cup is a worldwide game; it closely links together people from different countries, different races and different area, which is what I want to express in this song." At the same time, she is very happy to cooperate with the most famous band in South Africa - Freshlyground.

Below is the music video by Shakira featuring Freshlyground performing Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song). (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment on YouTube. You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download this music video to your computer hard disk.

Source is

http://youtubeking10.blogspot.com/2010/06/waka-waka-shakiras-song-for-2010-fifa.html

Top 10 must have software in your computer

2010-05-28T00:54:00.001-07:00

What are your must have programs in your computer? You need the applications when you have a computer and you can die without it.

This is my top 10 list

1. Windows XP:) Of cource, this is Operationg System, you cannot run any program without it.

2. Microsoft Office. Mine is 2003. 2007 and 2010 are available on the Internet.

3. Web Browser. I use Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9 currently. Mozilla Firefox supports a lot of plugins, so it is very strong. Though IE still has the biggest market share, I don't like IE.

4. Real - time chat tool: Windows Live! Messenger

5. Leawo YouTube Downloader. It is an entertainment application, and is free. I use it to download and accelerate web videos.

6. FlashGet

7. Kaspersky Internet Security. It is the best antivirus software on the planet.

8. VLC media player. This player can open and almost all video files.

9. Adobe Reader 9.0, e-book reader. It can read PDF and other e-book files.

10. RoboForm. It can remember your account names and passwords and automatically fill login forms.

After top 10

11. War Craft 3 -->> entertainment apps :)

12. Format Factory. It can convert almost all videos and is totally free.

13. Winrar, zip and unzip files

14. Adobe Photoshop, the best photo editors

15. Foxmail, e-mail manager, write and receive e-mails.

16. gimp

17. iTunes music player

Source is http://youtubeking10.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-10-must-have-software-in-your.html

Customize a Flash Video Player with playlist in the easiest way

2009-09-24T20:09:00.000-07:00

Many people think it’s very difficult to realize playing videos on their own website, blog, forum or e-store, because it’s difficult for them, who don’t know any coding knowledge, to customize an own-branded web Flash video player like YouTube player for web. So if they want to play videos on their own website, they have to compress their videos size to 10 mins or smaller and upload to YouTube, and then get the embed codes of the videos for embedding onto website. Although they know the drawbacks like the videos will belong to YouTube, the video quality will be lower, etc.

In fact, it’s not difficult to customize a skinning web FLV player any more. Here, I will introduce a way to customize a skinning web FLV player with full-screen capability and playlist. At present, this way is the easiest one, which only needs a few mouse clicks.

Below is the tutorial shows how to customize the above flash video player with a few mouse-clicks on Moyea Web Player.

Step 1: Open Moyea Web Player on your PC

Step 2: Input flash videos you want to play on webpage into Moyea Web Player (If your videos are not flash videos, please convert them to).

Step 3: Choose a player skin(here, I use the default one), and remove the embed code area.

Check "Auto choose next" to make the player can player next video automatically

Step 4: Click “Publish” button to generate a web flash video player and other related files (Note: if you want to get a separate playlist file, please check “Out File”)

Step 5: Upload all the published files except the index.html file, to the same folder of your web server

Step 6: Embed the generated web video player onto your webpage with the embed code below (you can get it on the generated index.html file):

Player will show here

Note:
1. No tag outside the embed code.

2. mwplayer.swf is the actual flash video player. If it resides in another directory, then point to it with a relative path (e.g. /player/mwplayer.swf) or an absolute path (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/player/mwplayer.swf ).
For example:

Player will show here

3. '500','450' is the width and the height of the player, you could change them to change the player size.

Step 7: The flash video player will appear on your website. Have a look at the above demo.

Video Search And Google Analytics Plugins Is Released For Web FLV Player

2009-09-17T00:28:00.000-07:00

Video search plugin and Google analytics plugin were released in Moyea to make the web FLV player, which created with Moyea Web Player, get the abilities of searching and playing videos from video sharing sites and abilities of tracking events of it and displaying the results in Google analytics account.

Moyea Web Player is a web FLV player creator. It can be used to create skinning streaming FLV player and FLV player for web sites to play streaming videos and flash videos with no any coding. And its various capabilities can be got extended via addons.

After released advertising and watermark plugins in May for extending the functions of the created web FLV player on advertising and branding, these days, Moyea has released Video search plugin and Google analytics plugin to enable the created web FLV player to play videos from video sharing sites and to track the events within it.

Video Search Plugin:Video Search Plugin was released on Sep.4, 2009. With it, the web FLV player, which created with Moyea Web Player, has the ability of searching and playing videos from almost all video sharing sites like YouTube, Google video, Dailymotion, etc., and the player owners don’t need to host any video on their web sever but users can view any video they want to watch. It’s a so powerful and useful plugin for web FLV players!

Google Analytics Plugin:Google Analytics Plugin is a free plugin released on Sep.1, 2009. It is used to track the events within the created web FLV player and display the results in Google analytics account, so that player owns can easily know and analyze the information of the player and the videos in player.

Google Analytics is not strange for most of internet users, but most of them only know it’s a good internet tool for tracking and analyzing information of website like traffic, entering keywords, bounce rate, etc. In fact, it also can be used to track and analyze events in web FLV players, that’s because Google has public the API to enable developers to develop plugins to make it for relevant use.

Moyea Web Player with easy-to-use feature is on its way to becoming more and more professional web FLV player creator via extending its capability with addons. And no doubt, these two plugins with functions to enable web FLV player to search and play videos from internet, to track events within web FLV player, can help it become more powerful and professional.

More information:

Company site: http://www.moyeamedia.com

Product site: http://www.playerdiy.com

Product page: http://www.playerdiy.com/configuration/addons/vidsearch.html http://www.playerdiy.com/configuration/addons/googlytics.html

Source is FLV player DIY

How to convert SWF to FLV

2009-03-13T03:11:00.000-07:00

1. Download Moyea SWF4Tube Converter, http://www.playerdiy.com/flash-video-converters.html
Launch it on PC. Moyea SWF4Tube Converter is a tool to convert SWF to FLV, MOV, MP4, 3GP,3G2.

2. Input Flash Files:
①Click "Browse…"tab to input flash files from your computer folder. Click "V" immediately behind, a drop list will cascade automatically. Choose among "From Folder", "From IE cache" and "Flash Projector", and there will be a dialog box accordingly pops up. Choose files in those dialog boxes and click "OK". On the right of pane are the properties of current playing flash.

Tips: On opening the window, you will get "Single Mode" conversion, if you have many files to convert; you are suggested to choose "Batch Mode" on the top left.

3. Export Settings
Click "Export" tab in menu, and you will get the following windows.

4. Conversion
①Click "Convert" in the menu, the program will automatically start performance test to find the best capture speed, if you did not checked "No performance testing". To guarantee an accurate result, you are suggested to interact with the flash when it asks you to.

②After performance testing, the program will come with the capture interface, then you can process your manual capture flash file for conversion.

How to free convert video to FLV (free video to FLV converter)

2009-03-10T01:40:00.000-07:00

1. Download and install Video4Web Converter from moyea. This tool is a freeware. It is a professiona and easy to use video to flv converter. Then run the program, you will see the main interface.

2. Click "Add" button to import the video file to the video to flash video converter, then you will see the interface of the program below.

3. Then you can start your settings for your conversion. Open the style and profile drop-down bars to select the target conversion format for your specific needs like playback on iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune. After this, please open output drop-down bar to specify where to save your converted files.

4. Previewing the video is a good choice for you. Under the preview window, you can click the button to capture the still pictures to save on your PC for enriching the picture collection.

5. If you want to the best effects from the output, you can click "Customize" button to set effects of video brightness or contrast and audio volume, trim duration time, and crop video file. In addition, you can tick to modify the image effects in flipping and deinterlace.

6. Start to run the program by clicking the button. After this, you can confirm the converted file on your PC by hitting open button. Here all the preparing work is finished. Then you can transfer the converted file to meet your specific needs for enjoyment.

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Want to make a flash video player for your website with ease? Check this article "How to make a flash video player for your website to control the playback of FLV files"

Three ways to put Youtube video to your website

2009-03-04T00:51:00.000-08:00

Let's suppose this scene -
I have made my own website, now I want to add a video from Youtube to my website. And I heard there is a way to put youtube into my site instead of making my own video sharing program... is this possible?

Yes, it is possible, in reality it is rather easy. Now I introduce three ways to put Youtube video to your website, hope it helps.

1. On each page of Youtube video, look on the right side of the video, it should say "embed" without quotes, the code in this "embed" text box is for users to embed the video to web page, then open the source file of your website with Dreamweaver or notepad and copy the code to the web page.

2. Firstly download the Youtube video to your computer with Leawo Youtube Download, which is totally free, then use Moyea web player to add the video from your computer to website. With Moyea web player, you can also design a skinnable media player on your website, it is a flash video player maker that provides quick and easy solution to add videos to web pages and embed a skinnable flash video player to website.

3. Just link it to in your website. This is the simplest way. In your website, you can just add the link to the video on Youtube.

Redirect to a URL after flash video (FLV) movies finishes playing - Solutions

2009-02-28T01:01:00.000-08:00

Easy solution for this problem -
In just three steps

1. Download Moyea web player, which is a flash video player maker that provides quick and easy solution to add videos to web pages and produce the html page with the embedded skinnable flash video player to put on your website as well. Lanuch the program in your PC.

2. Import Flash videos to the programs.

3. In the "Settings" tab, you'll find "Navigation at end" menu, here you enter the URL you want to direct to in the "End URL" text box, choose "browser" as "Style Of Target".

Done!

Softwares, programs that can play FLV (Flash video)

2009-02-19T00:47:00.000-08:00

On Windows if you double-click on a video file it will open in whatever video player you have installed. However, most common video players don't support Flash Video format (FLV's). So, double clicking on a Flash Video file generally does nothing.

So I have seen a lot of people on the Internet asking these questions - "How do I play FLV (Flash video) on my computer?" "Which program can play FLV file" "Which is the best flash video player?"

Wouldn't it be great if when you try to open a Flash Video it opens up in a Video Player so you can watch it?

Well, now you can.

Here I make a list of softwares that can play FLV on computer. Hopefully it can help you.

- VLC media player
This player can be used in most operating systems, and can play just almost all video formats, including FLV (Flash video). The latest version is 0.9.

More screenshots here.

- FLV Player by Martijn de Visser
FLV Player is a standalone application to play Flash .flv files with. It is totally free, mainly used on Windows machine. Just as the reviewer said "Does exactly what it says. Much better than another product I had previously. Haven't found anything wrong yet." The latest version is 2.0.25.

- Moyea web player, it is free
Moyea web player can also play FLV, it is a flash video player maker that provides quick and easy solution to add videos to web pages and produce the html page with the embedded skinnable flash video player to put on your website as well. In addition, it enables you to add as many advertisements (Ads) as you like into any video at any point-in-time, regardless of the number and kind of the Ads.

- The lastest version of Real player 11.0
As you have seen, the old version of RealPlayer cannot play FLV, so you must update it to version 11.0 or download a new one from its website.

- Media Player Classic
Maybe not many people Media Player Classic can play FLV, but it just can. I try it on my computer and it just play FLV well. In reality I use it on almost all my videos.

- MPW Player - Multimedia Web Player

This player is either a video and audio player, it supports media formats like MP3 and FLV, moreover, it is Open Source. The latest version in this year is 2.0.

- OS FLV - The Open Source, Embeddable FLV Player
The OS FLV Player is an Open Source, embedable player for Flash native video files. The player provides a large amount of options that can be changed in the embed code, a code generator written in javascript, a library of PHP functions, and, of course, fully open source code.

- flowplayer - video player for the web
Flowplayer is a GPL licensed video player for Web sites. Use it to embed video streams into your HTML pages.

- JW FLV Media Player
The JW FLV Player is the Internet’s most popular and flexible media player.

- And these players, it is said that they can also play FLV, but I'm not sure: mplayer, totem, xine, smplayer...

Moreover, you can use Moyea video4web Converter to convert all popular video formats to FLV, and .mov, mp4, 3gp, 3g2. It is totally free, no watermark, no limitation, no registration, all features are free.

How to make a video sharing website like YouTube

2009-02-06T23:00:00.000-08:00

YouTube is a magic thing to me. It only depends on the video sharing to create so terrific rank of 3 in all the websites in the world: what is it and how to design it. I have always doubted about this. In this article I will try to describe how to build a video sharing website in the following points. Further more, this article is only a guide in general. It is impossible to find everything of YouTube in this article. YouTube is a very complex system. You need to do a lot and a lot of things.
1. What is YouTube?
2. How to design YouTube?

Who will read this article: If you have interest on running your video hosting services, you wanna create your own video sharing site on Linux server with thousands upon thousands of visitors and video clips hosted just like YouTube, iFilm, Break or other famous video sharing sites do, this tutorial may tell you how to make the first step.

1. What is YouTube?---------------From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.

2. How to design YouTube Website?
As for you must have seen, you MUST buy your own domain (or create a new on) and rent your own server. Because free hosts will NOT allow you to upload several videos, nor will they give you the required database and server-side scripts.

To design a website like YouTube, there are 3 main tools that you have to use. They are Web design software like Dreamweaver or FrontPage and tools for active page development; sever-based video to flash video converter like Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server 3; flash video player maker like Moyea Web Player (it is free). Then I would like to show you how to design a YouTube website step-by-step.

Firstly, to design a website, we have to use some web design tools. Currently, Dreamweaver and FrontPage are commonly used by most web designers. You can streamline your development workflow by creating and editing images in Fireworks and flash works in Adobe Flash CS3 or CS4 Professional, and then import them directly into Dreamweaver. You have to develop customer interaction system, like login, logout and register system, upload system, database system to store the information of customers and videos uploaded by customers, which require active page technique, like ASP.NET, PHP, Java, etc. You can use PHP code to handle the active page, Linux Apache server as your server and MySQL Database as your database system. You have to install all these tools in the machine and set up the development environment correctly to make sure they work right together. Please note that, a video sharing site like YouTube will "cost" you several MONTHS of programming (and I mean SERIOUS CODING).

Secondly, after the web page completed, because it is sure that the videos uploaded by people would be much unorderly, then YouTube must contain a video to flash video (.flv) converter that can convert all kinds of video files which are uploaded by all customers to flash video (.flv) format file; YouTube needs software which can make these video files standardization including format standardization, size standardization, WxH standardization, etc. More important, this software must have the ability of contain any numbers of video files that are uploaded by the people all over the world to flash video (.flv) file. Meanwhile, this software must have the ability of crop and trim video files.

As far as I know, Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server 3 can complete these tasks. Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server 3 software has the unique combination of powerful streaming media capabilities and a flexible environment for creating and delivering interactive social media applications to the broadest possible audience. So Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server 3 is great if you can afford it. However I think there are plenty of other solutions to accomplish the same end goal.

Last but not the least, there must have a flash video (.flv) player that can play the videos uploaded by all people. Therefore, YouTube needs a flash video player maker to make a flash video player to play these flash video files. However, there are some basic requirements to the flash video player maker. The generated flash video player has to play any number of flash videos with a single flash video player, as it is impossible that one player plays only one flash video file. It has to be with scrollable thumbnail play list, and so on.

To this point, Moyea Web Player can do that, I also use it on my own website. It is a multifunctional flash video player maker. With it, you can design your own player user interface and create a scrollable thumbnail play list, you can add advertisements to the flash videos. It is a pretty interesting program. The generated flash video player can add single or multiple videos in many formats to website. The flash video player supports playback of video formats that the Adobe Flash Player can handle, such as FLV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2 and H264.

However, it is very complicated to fully realize functions of YouTube. I am sorry for not being able to write all details on it. I hope this article can function as a general guide.

How to add flash videos to website?

2009-02-05T21:56:00.000-08:00

On internet, there are more and more people ask questions like "How can I add flash videos to my website?", "How can I embed a flash video(FLV) into my web page?", "How to insert an abobe flash video into frontpage?" Here, I will give a step-by-step user guide to solve these problems.

Step-by-step User Guide:

Step 1: Download Moyea Web Player from http://www.playerdiy.com/ (it is free), install and launch it. Moyea web player is a flash video player maker that provides quick and easy solution to add videos to web pages and embed a skinnable flash video player to website.

Step 2: Add videos into Moyea Web Player (Moyea Web Player offers a free video converter to convert the unaccepted videos to flash videos)

Step 3: moyea Web Player publishes some files like a swf file named mwplayer.swf and a html file named index.html

Step 4: Upload all the published files to the same folder of your website.

Step 5: open index.html with notepad or dreamweaver, edit the embeded code as

Step 6: Copy and paste the edited embedded code to your web page. Then the flash videos will appear on your website.

How to put DVD clips to website?

2009-02-04T01:04:00.000-08:00

If you have a DVD movie and want to upload parts of it to your website, so how do you handle it?

As I know, you can use a DVD ripper, like Leawo DVD Ripper, to rip the DVD to your computer hard disk. Then use a converter that can convert DVD video file to FLV(Why FLV? Because FLV is your best bet). To upload it to your website, you also need to make a Flash video player to control the playback of the Flash video files. You can do it in Adobe Flash CS3 with actionscript. Finally, upload all the web pages and Flash files to your hosting server.

However, all these things seem to be a little complicated to a beginner on this subject. Though there are a lot of DVD to website solution products but I am talking about one for free. They are Moyea DVD4web Converter and web player. This guide include two parts:
Part 1: How to rip DVD to flash
Part 2: How to put the converted flash videos to website

Part 1: How to rip DVD to flash
1. Download Moyea DVD4Web converter from http://www.flash-video-mx.com/dvd4web-converter/ for free if it is for personal use. Launch it.

2. Import DVD file into the program
If there are DVD files in your computer, click the Load DVD button or Load IFO button, and a dialog box pops up for you to select the original DVD movies. Here, you have added the DVD movies to the product.

3. Set output file
After adding DVD movies to this DVD to Flash Converter, you can click drop-down button to open sub-directory: the titles and click drop-down button again: the chapters. Here, you can select the chapters you like to rip. Here you can set the output format as flv(flash video).

4. Customize the effect for output
Click “Customize” button on the main interface, you can start customizing effects for the output. Customize effect includes video effects, duration time trimming, and video cropping.

5. Complete conversion
You just need to click the start convert button to start conversion. After finishing ripping task, you can hit Open button to find the ripped files quickly and directly. Then it is ready for uploading to video share sites like YouTube, blog, any social websites for playback on them.

Part 2: How to put the converted flash videos to website
1. Download Moyea Web Player, it is free. Install and launch it on PC.

2. Add the converted flash videos into Moyea Web Player (Moyea Web Player offers a free video converter to convert the unaccepted videos to flash videos)

3. Moyea Web Player publishes some files like a swf file named mwplayer.swf and a html file named index.html

4. Upload all the published files to the same folder of your website.

5. Open index.html with notepad or Dreamweaver, edit the embeded code to

6: Copy and paste the edited embedded code to your web page. Then the flash videos will appear on your website.

How to make a flash video player for your website to control the playback of FLV files

2009-01-10T23:11:00.000-08:00

Flash Video (FLV) is viewable on most operating systems and web browsers via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin. Nowadays, most online videos are FLV.

A lot of people want to build their own style video sharing websites, maybe they have found web page templates for their website but do not have the code to make a flash video player on their websites, so they will be in a totally lost if they do not have knowledge and experience in Flash and actionscript.

I have found a tool, even if you don't know HTML or Flash, you can make a flash video player on your own. This tool is Moyea web player.

1. Launch the tool, here you can choose to select the videos you want to add to your website. Just click the "Add video" or "Add URL" button. Moreover, you can set the URL you want to visit after the video is finished displaying in the "Setting" tab, and use the four converters that recommended in the "Encoder" tab.

2. Next is the "Advertisement" menu, below this main menu, there are two sub-menus, they are "Advertise" and "Watermark", here you can add your advertisements and watermark to your videos, you must try these functions, becasue I think they are interesting.

3. Click the "Template" main menu, here you can highly customize the skin of your flash video player. You can choose control bar style, you can set the background color of the player, you can choose which control button you want to display or hide, you can set the style of the big play button in the center of the video...You can do a lot of things in this section.

4. The last step is to publish the flash video player and the web page that have the player embedded. You can find all these files via the "publish path", upload them to your host web server, then the flash video player designed by your own will be viewable on your website.

That's all. Thank you!

Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

2008-07-02T21:52:00.000-07:00

Just find this press release on Adobe website,

For immediate release

Adobe Flash Technology Enhances Search Results for Dynamic Content and Rich Internet Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif. — July 1, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable — they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

The openly published SWF specification describes the file format used to deliver rich applications and interactive content via Adobe Flash Player, which is installed on more than 98 percent of Internet-connected computers. Although search engines already index static text and links within SWF files, RIAs and dynamic Web content have been generally difficult to fully expose to search engines because of their changing states — a problem also inherent in other RIA technologies.

“Until now it has been extremely challenging to search the millions of RIAs and dynamic content on the Web, so we are leading the charge in improving search of content that runs in Adobe Flash Player,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “We are initially working with Google and Yahoo! to significantly improve search of this rich content on the Web, and we intend to broaden the availability of this capability to benefit all content publishers, developers and end users.”

Google has already begun to roll out Adobe Flash Player technology incorporated into its search engine. With Adobe’s help, Google can now better read the content on sites that use Adobe Flash technology, helping users find more relevant information when conducting searches. As a result, millions of pre-existing RIAs and dynamic Web experiences that utilize Adobe Flash technology, including content that loads at runtime, are immediately searchable without the need for companies and developers to alter them.

“Google has been working hard to improve how we can read and discover SWF files,” said Bill Coughran, senior vice president of engineering at Google. “Through our recent collaboration with Adobe, we now help Web site owners that choose to design sites with Adobe Flash software by indexing this content better. Improving how we crawl dynamic content will ultimately enhance the search experience for our users.”

Yahoo! also expects to deliver improved Web search capabilities for SWF applications in a future update to Yahoo! Search. “Yahoo! is committed to supporting webmaster needs with plans to support searchable SWF and is working with Adobe to determine the best possible implementation,” said Sean Suchter, vice president Yahoo! Search Technology Engineering.

“Designers and Web developers have long been frustrated that search engines couldn’t better access the information within their content created with Flash technology. It’s great to see Adobe and the search engines working directly together to improve the situation,” said Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief, SearchEngineLand.com. “The changes should help unlock information that’s previously been ‘invisible’ and will likely result in a better experience for searchers.”

Adobe Flash Player is the world’s most pervasive client runtime that delivers unparalleled creative options, highly engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and nearly universal reach. To download and learn more about Adobe Flash Player, please visit www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ .

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How Do I... Create a custom Web user interface for my Flash video?

2008-06-30T22:42:00.000-07:00

-[Reshipment]Authorship by John Lee, a consultant specializing in design and illustration and a freelance technical writer

Adobe Flash’s video technology is all over the Web and is an example of how Internet video has finally arrived after overcoming many technological hurdles during the past decade. (Have you ever been to YouTube.com? You may have heard of it.) The latest version of Flash, CS3, makes it extremely easy to build a custom flash video player to show off your Flash Video (.FLV) files.

If you have never used Flash before, don’t be intimidated. Building a custom FLV player is largely a matter of dragging and dropping Flash’s Component objects into a document and scripting only a line or two of very simple ActionScript code. In fact, don’t be surprised if you find yourself jumping head first into ActionScript authoring after you see how easy it is.

If you don’t own a copy of Flash CS3, you can download a fully functioning 30-day trial. Also, you’ll be using a royalty-free FLV file to complete the exercise.

Let’s start by opening Flash CS3 and creating a new file. From the File menu, select the New… option. In the dialog box that appears, select the Type: Flash File ActionScript 3.0. This is important; Flash’s video components are more limited if your Flash File is an ActionScript 2.0 type.

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Your layout should look like Figure A.

Figure A

The default layout of the Flash CS3 workspace

At the top of the screen, you will see the Layers palette. It is widely considered a good idea among Flash developers that you should keep the objects in your Flash file on a layer that is separate from an empty layer that will hold your ActionScript code. This makes it easier for another developer to look at your file and know where to look to modify the code. It also prevents you (or someone else, for that matter) from accidentally deleting ActionScript code if you need to throw away a layer that contains objects you wish to delete.

At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the New Layer button. Then, rename the top layer “ActionScript” and rename the bottom layer “Objects.” On the ActionScript layer, click the dot under the padlock icon. This will lock the ActionScript layer and prevent you from placing objects on it, as in Figure B. This is also a good time to save your file. Be certain to save it in the same directory as the sample_movie.flv file you downloaded earlier.

Figure B

Arranging and locking layers

Time to build your video player. Select the “objects” layer to make it the active layer, then go up to the Window menu at the top of the screen and select the Components option. The Components palette will appear, as in Figure C. Click the cross to expand the Video Component tree, if you need to.

Figure C

The Components Palette

From the Components palette, click and drag the FLVPlayback component to the stage. A large black box with some controls should now sit on the stage (Figure D).

Figure D

The FLVPlayback component

Flash was kind enough to provide you with a set of controls, but hey… we’re building our own custom video player, here! Let’s get rid of those things. Click on the video component on the stage to select it and then go down to the Properties palette at the bottom of the screen and click on the Parameters tab. In the dialog box that appears, double-click the Skin option to bring up the Skin selector dialog box. From the Skin pull-down menu, select None and click OK to remove the generic controls on our FLVPlayback component (Figure E).

Figure E

Removing the default video controls from the FLVPlayback component

Next, your video component needs an instance name, which will allow ActionScript to call it. With the Video still selected on the stage, click on the Properties tab and in the field labeled , click and type the name “myvideo” (without the quotation marks) and press the Enter key. (Figure F)

Figure F

Giving the FLVPlayback component an instance name

Now we need to tell the FLVPlayback component which FLV file to play. With the video still selected, click on the Parameters tab again and scroll down to the property labeled “source.” Double-click in the empty field to bring up the dialog box that will let you point the FLVPlayback component to the FLV file you downloaded earlier. Be sure to select the Match Source FLV Dimensions check box. Click OK (Figure G). When you return to the stage, you will find that the FLVPlayback component has resized itself to match the size of the sample movie.

Figure G

Setting the Parameters of the FLV component

Now let’s look at the Components palette again. All of the objects under the Video section are components that can be used to control the FLV on the stage. We can use any or all of these to make our custom player, but for now, just click and drag the PlayPauseButton, SeekBar, and VolumeBar components to the stage, directly under the video (Figure H).

Figure H

Dragging the buttons from the Components panel to the stage

Let’s modify these controls a little more. First, select the SeekBar component. Then right-click on the SeekBar and from the pop-up menu that appears, select the Free Transform option. Then hold down the Alt key, click on the right-hand center anchor, and stretch the SeekBar over to the right to make it take up the length of the video up to the VolumeBar (Figure I).

Figure I

Enlarging the SeekBar

Nice, but we can still modify it a bit more. Click on the PausePlayButton to select it and in the Properties panel, go to the Color pull-down menu and select the Tint option. From the color selection menu, choose a nice blue and keep the effect at 50 percent. (Figure J) You could also repeat this step for the VolumeBar and SeekBar and customize their colors as well.

Figure J

Giving the Play/Pause button a different color

Your button components now need instance names — just like the FLVPlayback component — so that ActionScript can call them and link them to the FLV movie. Click on the PlayPauseButton to select it and in the Properties panel, give it an instance name of “playpause.” (Don’t include the quotes.) Repeat this process, giving the instance names of “seekvideo” to the SeekBar component and “volslide” to the VolumeBar component (Figure K).

Figure K

Giving instance names to all of the video control components

Here’s the part where you get write some ActionScript. Go to the top of the screen and in the Layers palette, select the ActionScript layer. Then, go to the Window menu and select the Actions option. A large pane will appear. This is where you will write your ActionScript code (Figure L).

Figure L

The ActionScript layer selected and the open ActionScript Window

Recall that we gave the FLVPlayback component an instance name of myvideo. We’re going to refer to that in our ActionScript code, as well as referring to the instance names of each one of the three control components.

Click in the right-hand (blank) side of the Actions window and type the following three lines of code. Note: Lettercase is important here — type the code exactly as you see it below, or the Control buttons will not work!

myvideo.playPauseButton = playpause;

myvideo.seekBar = seekvideo;

myvideo.volumeBar = volslide;

Your ActionScript code should display in your Actions panel, as shown in Figure M.

Figure M

The completed ActionScript code

Save the file and test your handiwork by going up to the Control menu and selecting the Test Movie option. When the video loads, be sure to play with all of the controls to make sure that they work. (Figure N)

Figure N

Testing the Flash movie

This is a very simple demonstration of the variety and ease of customization that Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0 give you over Flash Video content. Experiment with the other video control components — their placement, colors, and sizes — and go wild!

How to Customize a Flash Video Web Player to Enhance Online Auction on website like eBay and Yahoo

2008-06-10T01:46:00.000-07:00

With the number of online auctions growing daily, how can you improve the success of your auctions? Auction Flash Video Web Player is the answer. With the flash video player, now you can explain what the selling item is, why people will want it, demonstrate how it works, and show its authenticity on the auction. Auction video played on the platform of eBay and Yahoo greatly enhances your item listing and sales volume.

The development of the web shows that the Flash Video web player provides a way for matching video and the Internet. With the advent of the file player, Flash Video player, and with the ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player, you might expect that thousands of compelling websites are integrating video with data, content, and interactive controls to create rich experiences for peoples who visit your cyber space with the flash video web player.

With the latest Flash Video web player customizing technology to process video clips, play them on the flash video web player and create links for your use on online auctions, we are aiming to revolutionize the way auction users sell items by providing a way to merchandise their products, demonstrate how it works, and show its authenticity.

We propose that you can find ways to make yourself creative and distinguish yourself and your products. We encourage you to create a personalized "About Me" video to help build trust and connect with your auction customers, which is to deliver your message in a personal way that is powerful and different. Explained in this article is the solution for common auctioneers.

As auctioneer, you might be experienced with the application of Flash video player, or you are a newbie, Web Player from Moyea will help you create customized Flash video player for your online auction and presentation with Yahoo, eBay, etc.

We know that photos displaying in auction descriptions usually boosts sales, let alone displaying flash videos which related to your company, products, and knowledge related to the products rolling out soon is something that can just vault us to the next level of seller credibility, and this is flash video displaying on auction platform eBay and Yahoo.

Initially developed for the business men to enhance the business outstanding achievements, Moyea Web Player is empowered with the strong functionality to customize a flash video player that can be installed on any social sites to play both local or online flash video files in FLV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, H.264 formats. Thus business presenters, web designers, instructors, etc. can obtain personalized Flash Video file in multiple formats for online auction with the program Moyea Web Player.

This article is to demonstrate to you how Moyea Web Player could help you to customize flash video files web player for posting on your own sites to play flash videos related to your company and products for auction just like auctions on the eBay, Yahoo, and other auction websites. This article is not designed as a tutorial and thus a step by step how-to is not included here. For further information and the wonders of this newly software of Web Player, please explore the member sites of Moyea Software at http://www.playerdiy.com/.

Add flash video file

There are two ways to add two different source of flash video file: add flash video file from local computer by clicking “Add video” button and add flash video file from the online via its URL by clicking “Add URL” button.

After imported flash video file into the program, we should test if the imported flash video files are supported or not, although the program has automatically tested when importing file. To test the file, just manually double-click the file to see if it can be played on the right preview. No playing means unsupported format to this web player, then use the correspondent encoder listed in the program to convert it to the supported format FLV or MP4.

Moyea Video4Web Converter: Convert video in all formats to flash video FLV and MP4 format with H.263 encoder.

Moyea DVD4Web Converter: Convert DVD to flash video FLV and MP4 file with H.264 encoder for Moyea Web Player.

Moyea SWF4Tube Converter: Convert SWF to flash video FLV and MP4 file with H.264 encoder for Moyea Web Player.

Moyea PPT4Web Converter: Convert PowerPoint to flash video FLV and MP4 file with H.264 encoder for the Web Player.

Step 2: Target settings

After imported flash video and confirmed the video file is the supported ones, it’s time to make some target settings for the flash video to play in the web. Generally, the target settings contain the following points: basic settings of caption setting and image specifying, navigation at end of end URL, style of target, and end target; navigation on click of click URL and click target.

Templates style and Player settings

To customize a flash video player, the absolutely necessarily step is player style and elements customizing.

Player style specifying: Currently, Moyea Web Player provides 11 player templates style for you to choosing as your web player style, they are: none, Common, Crystal, Gentle, Iron, Plastic, QuickTime, Simple_black, Simple 2, WMP10, and YouTube. Just click to choose or change.

player settings options: This part contains all elements settings on a player, such as easily changing the templates of web flash video player, control buttons easy to turn on and off, playing styles easily to customize, promote setting of load flash video style and mode, player size flexible changing, functional web flash video player, add external URL support (get back the traffic), advanced settings. These player style and elements settings are set depending on each specific need. Just free to check and choose to meet the specific needs.
Misc: Click “Misc” tab enables you to specify the background color for the web player.

Step 4: Publish
Once all the settings and options are completed, it’s time to publish a YouTube flash video web player for the web.

In the publish interface, if you are using Moyea Web Player Pro trail version Moyea Web Player Lite version, the “Embedded” option for Xml file is only allowed to publish. In other words, only the web player Pro version allows generating independent Xml file for playlist editing, customizing player from the generated html file, and with no quantity limit in the playlist for a single player. Just click “More Info” for more info; just click “Purchase” to purchase software.
Later, specify a publish path for saving the published files.
Click “Publish” to publish a flash video player for the web!

After customize the web player that links flash videos related to your company and products, you can upload them to any sites you can and you want to start auctions with other competitors. As to how to upload, please refer to Moyea flash video player for the web in http://www.playerdiy.com/!

No more than one month later, I can sure that the auction your products would be enhanced greatly and sales volume would be increased a lot!

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