Posts Tagged ‘vimeo’

Youtube, Vimeo Showing in HTML5

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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.

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Feb
07
2010
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Resize Vimeo

Posted in: Wordpress | Tags: , ,

The Resize Vimeo pluggin for WordPress does exactly what you would expect — it resizes Vimeo videos. I created this plugin, because I plan to start doing some more videos and I wanted any videos that I post on this site to look good. I really like how the Vimeo player looks, but the standard width only goes about half way across the content area they they’re in right now. I thought this looked really tacky, so I decided to experiment and see if it was possible to make the player bigger. Turns out that the player actually gets bigger very nicely.

This plugin gets the current dimensions of the video you post and increases them to a set width and increases the height accordingly, keeping the same width-height ratio as the original player.

We now have an admin menu that lets you choose the size of the video player

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Oct
14
2009
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Contact Form

Posted in: General | Tags: , ,

I finally set up the contact forms for all my websites this past week. Hopefully nobody has needed to contact me yet, but I was really mostly worried about the contact form on http://joshbetz.net. Next up on my own personal sites is the redesign, or really the original design of the hsr blog.

On a side note: Now that SVN and Trac are up and running I should probably get more active in development, but TSE has been taking time up lately. That will hopefully be launching soon. I just need to talk with the guys and finalize the designs. We have some development decisions that need to be finalized as well and then I can finish it up. After that it will run itself for a little while at least. If Vimeo ever finishes that API update I can implement that too, but for the initial release I think we’re set on the current API and then we’ll go from there.

Jan
04
2009
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First Vimeo Vid

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New Project!! It’s going to be fun, and very interesting.


First Vimeo Vid for The Social Experiment from Josh Betz on Vimeo.

Nov
09
2008
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