31 Dec 2009 18:50
first class videos support
Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc <at> gmail.com>
2009-12-31 17:50:49 GMT
2009-12-31 17:50:49 GMT
Hi, As lately I've been using Facebook a little more, I've tried to use Facebook to upload some photos and videos for friends. I think overally it sucks a lot, however there is something which is way better than booh: the fact videos are played with an embedded flash player (I know this is not super hot news, and blogger and the like already do that for ages, but I've never realized the potential for booh, and I think I also was slown down by the fact flash is not open source). So I've found a nice free software flash video player, http://www.flowplayer.org/ and I've modified booh to be able to (optionally) generate flash videos (with ffmpeg - doh, yet another dependency!) and use flowplayer. The result is quite nice IMHO. Check for example the video in that album: http://booh.org/themes/dark/Home/ As a side effect, I've modified the fullscreen view mode of booh to show videos as well as photos (since I've observed we miss videos if we switch to fullscreen view when beginning to view an album). That new feature is uploaded in the git tree. PS: and flowplayer works with older flash versions than facebook video player :) -- -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://zarb.org/~gc/
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