Guillaume Cottenceau | 31 Dec 2009 18:50
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first class videos support

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 :)

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Gmane