The House and Senate are off this week for Independence Day observence; we’re using this break as an opportunity to break in our brand new admin interface, which makes the numerous behind-the-scenes tasks involved in transcoding and bringing the footage online much more streamlined. By the time Congress returns on the 9th, we expect to be caught up and able to get new footage online within a day or so of air — hopefully sooner.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Saturday, June 30, 2007
The House and Senate are off this week for Independence Day observence; we’re using this break as an opportunity to break in our brand new admin interface, which makes the numerous behind-the-scenes tasks involved in transcoding and bringing the footage online much more streamlined. By the time Congress returns on the 9th, we expect to be caught up and able to get new footage online within a day or so of air — hopefully sooner.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Metavid has started to put all the original mpeg2 captures onto archive.org. (Previously we were just removing them because of space considerations) But now when ever you pull up a recent stream you should now have access to the mpeg2 original. For example the senate proceeding for june 4th now links to its associative stream on archive.org. Archive.org also makes the stream available in other formats such as flash flv and mpeg4. To see a list of all the streams available on archive.org so far you can check the U.S congress category.
Watch this space for more interesting collaboration with archive.org in the future:)
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Given the many parallel projects to bring ogg theora into the many browser platforms it can easily get confusing. In this post I will give an update on the embed video projects that I have been following in the development of the latest mv_embed script. This script is a rewrite of the mv embed script with the intentions of bridging support for video tag from the html5 spec to non html5 browsers. Once the mv_embed script is included it goes through the page and rewrites all the html5 video tags with whatever playback method the client supports, letting web developers use the future html5 video tag today! See the sample page.
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