Por dentro do Blip.tv

Vídeo bem legal, que mostra um pouco do escritório da Blip.TV, uma “start up” focada em UGC (User Generated Content), um tipo de YouTube, só que mais com cara de Vimeo e mais nichada, eles não tem interesse em competir com o YouTube.

Eles tem uma ducha no escritório

Making YouTube work on hacked iPhones Step by Step

If you are one of the unfortunate guys that always get the message “Could not connect to youTube” when you try to access the Iphone’s native YouTube App, here is a great tutorial with the steps to get your YouTube working again.

http://www.hacktheiphone.com/iphone_making_you_tube_work.html

PS: when you unlock your iPhone (see my other post), the YouTube application is the only one that still need to be hacked to work properly.

PS: This procedure works for iPhone with firmware 1.0.2 and 1.1.1 

Eric Schimidt at World Economic Forum showing off his iPhone

I got this video at Digg, and besides the interview with Eric, which is great to watch, the iPhone in his pocket is what calls my attention

Go forward to around 24:30, its very brief so, pay attention!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mmISIWNcVY[/youtube]

You Tube Mobile goes live using H.263 streaming

I was reading the Multimedia Blog at S60.com and found this interesting post from Jukka. He was the first to report the oficial mobile version of YouTube, Nokia and YouTube announced the partnership earlier this year at 3GSM in Barcelona to put the videos on Nokia’s Nseries phones.

You can check it out by yourself at http://m.youtube.com, the specifications according to Jukka are:

• 3GP/RTSP streaming video (no downloads), when you click in any video it opens the RealPlayer.
• video codec H.263, audio codec AMR-NB
• video bitrate ~34kbps
• Streaming Server: Darwin Streaming Server v5.5.3 (Open Source) running on Linux

I’ve tested for a while on my E61 (using Wifi and EDGE) and worked pretty well, the audio and video quality is far from good, but you can definitely watch something and have a preview of the video on the go. Just one clue, don’t even bother to watch sports videos, they look terrible.

It’s interesting to see that the YouTube guys are using H.263, besides the fact that the new Symbian/Windows Mobile and other OS flavor phones already support MPEG-4, certainly the focus is on the mass. I hope they offer other options in the near future including the possibility to download the videos instead of streaming it.

Here are some screenshots:

New RealPlayer to add downloading features

RealNetworks announced today that a new version of the RealPlayer will be launched in June - no specific date yet - and that this new player will have a lot of new features for the online video aficionados.

The most important feature is the on click download, that allow any user o download very easily almost any video available on the Internet. You can name it, You Tube, Google Video, Dabber, Blip.tv, MSN video, Apple trailers, all with on click. It can even record streaming videos (rtsp and mms, not only http streaming) and you can even close your browser because it will download/record the content in background.

That’s really some awesome news coming from Real, after a long time with zero innovation to the RealPlayer, and this is exactly what the users want right now. I am just concerned about the reaction of the big media companies on this matter, Real will have some legal workout to do, or they need to step up and show some business model where the content owners can get their share of money.

Check it out the interview with Jeff Chase (VP for RealPlayer at RealNetworks), it’s a shame that the interviewer doesn’t even know what is the Rhapsody service, but the demo is worth it.

Official post at the RealPlayer’s Blog:
http://rws-blog.rhapsody.com/realplayer/