Josh Betz » Video

Youtube, Vimeo Showing in HTML5

Josh — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:02:49 +0000

Both YouTube and Vimeo recently gave an option to watch videos in HTML5. I switched right away knowing that every time I try to play an HD video on YouTube, my Macbook fan spins up because of the heat caused from flash processing. On the Dell Mini I just bought, I couldn’t even watch HD videos on youtube because HD video in flash was too much for the atom processor.

When I saw that YouTube and Vimeo were offering HTML5 instead of flash video, I immediately tested both of the above mentioned issues. The fan in the macbook stayed quiet and the Dell Mini didn’t have any problems when I watched HD content with HTML5 video instead of flash. This is an example of the power of HTML5 video and why Apple decided to skip flash on the iPad.

The other thing that I really like about this is the fact that it pushes the HTML5 spec forward that much more. Obviously Google is involved in developing HTML5, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this on YouTube. Vimeo, however, is not involved — at least that i know of — in developing the HTML5 specification and just wants clean, efficient code. HTML5 is a good way to do that.

Finally, Adam Curry recently explained on “The Cranky Geeks” that it’s going to take a long time to derail flash video because of all the money invested in technologies used for ad agencies such as pre-rolls, but I think it would be pretty easy to develop a similar system that work in HTML5.

All in all, this is good for everyone except Adobe and flash developers. I’m not so worried about the flash developers though, the good ones have the skills to be useful in more than just flash video.

8th Grade Graduation

Josh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:31:52 +0000

Here’s a video I made back in 2005 for my 8th grade graduation. I figured I’d put it up here for all to see.

Added Seesmic

Josh — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:29:50 +0000

Well, I added the Seesmic plugin for WordPress so people can record comments with Seesmic. We’ll see how that goes. I think we’re all going to be using video in the future, so why not get started right now? I tried to record a video for this post, but I guess you need to pay for Jing Pro to be able to save a screencast in mp4. The only option with the free version is .swf and I don’t know how to convert .swf to anything else, so I guess I’m stuck. I tried to find visualhub, but I didn’t have a Mac when they decided to cancel it 6 months ago. I was going to use my camera on a tripod, but the batteries were dead. I got the first part recorded in PhotoBooth, but it wont make very much sense if I just put that up.

If anybody knows of any free screen capture software that will let me use some kind of real movie format let me know. I’m going to remove Jing right away. What a waste of my time.

Halo 3 Beta

Josh — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:51:44 +0000

Rooster Teeth Â· Red vs. Blue Halo 3 BetaThe Halo 3 Beta was released and Rooster Teeth already has a new video out. “We’ve had a number of people ask if we will be using Halo 3 to make machinima. In answer to that question, we proudly present the video below. This can also be seen on Xbox Live Marketplace in glorious HD. Thanks to Bungie and Microsoft for making this possible and we’ll see you all online tomorrow on High Ground! The game rocks.” – Red vs. Blue