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Instructional videos on the Internet have never been stimulating enough to hold my interest. Until now.
For your perusal, a very thorough How-To video on registering a domain thru GoDaddy. Watch for the promotion code to receive 10% off of your purchase. You are guaranteed not to learn anything here -- unless you are comatose of course.
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For your perusal, a very thorough How-To video on registering a domain thru GoDaddy. Watch for the promotion code to receive 10% off of your purchase. You are guaranteed not to learn anything here -- unless you are comatose of course.
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This service allows you to convert Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online using compressed domain transcoder technology. It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.
When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.
FLV to MPEG4 Conveter engine is also available as OpenSource. You can download the source code via subversion: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=183657
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When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.
FLV to MPEG4 Conveter engine is also available as OpenSource. You can download the source code via subversion: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=183657
Technorati Tags: video, converter, online, FLV to MPEG4, sourceforge, OpenSource
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Qoogle Video offers an improved search for video clips on YouTube. Result pages display 20 clips in four columns of five rows. No ads, quick display, no distractive banners. Clean pages.
Each clip result includes 3 snapshots and a link to view the clip without having to visit YouTube. My only disatisfaction with the display is that the columns are too close together, outside of that, this is a pretty fast search utility.
Returned results were very satisfactory in my opinion. And with more results to a page, I don't think that I could use YouTube search ever again.
Extras at Qoogle
They also have a Firefox plugin for Quoogle, supposedly. I think it is only good for versions prior to Firefox 2.0 -- have not checked it out yet. If anyone does, drop me a line to confirm.
The neatest feature, as if the search wasn't enough, is that they have a download utility page where you can snag the videos with. But there is also a Firefox extension called the VideoDownloader that will handle YouTube, as well as 60 plus other sites including Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Google and many, many others. This extension actually works by extracting the information from the embedded Html code -- normally you could do this by viewing the source and hand-typing the source file into your browser.
Video presentation ideas
The YouTube format is .FLV (flash video), but if you change the extension to .AVI then you can edit, take snapshots, or whatever with most video editing software. I have not tried this, but that is what I have read in a few spots.
Ideally, if you prep your videos and grab screenshots, then run them through something like Slide -- you could present your video content a little more different than the same old boring YouTube fashion. Slide has many options for displaying image clips (blinds, fades, turning pages, and those irritating MySpace slideshows too).
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Each clip result includes 3 snapshots and a link to view the clip without having to visit YouTube. My only disatisfaction with the display is that the columns are too close together, outside of that, this is a pretty fast search utility.
Returned results were very satisfactory in my opinion. And with more results to a page, I don't think that I could use YouTube search ever again.
Extras at Qoogle
They also have a Firefox plugin for Quoogle, supposedly. I think it is only good for versions prior to Firefox 2.0 -- have not checked it out yet. If anyone does, drop me a line to confirm.
The neatest feature, as if the search wasn't enough, is that they have a download utility page where you can snag the videos with. But there is also a Firefox extension called the VideoDownloader that will handle YouTube, as well as 60 plus other sites including Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Google and many, many others. This extension actually works by extracting the information from the embedded Html code -- normally you could do this by viewing the source and hand-typing the source file into your browser.
Video presentation ideas
The YouTube format is .FLV (flash video), but if you change the extension to .AVI then you can edit, take snapshots, or whatever with most video editing software. I have not tried this, but that is what I have read in a few spots.
Ideally, if you prep your videos and grab screenshots, then run them through something like Slide -- you could present your video content a little more different than the same old boring YouTube fashion. Slide has many options for displaying image clips (blinds, fades, turning pages, and those irritating MySpace slideshows too).
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