Enhancing the YouTube Experience

EmbedPlus enhances your viewing experience of embedded YouTube videos by adding some useful interactions. These include:

• Realtime Reactions: Show viewers the latest online reactions, right inside the player. Currently, YouTube comments and Twitter feeds are featured.
• Scene Skipping: Chapter buttons that let you skip to marked times. You can also use the wizard to mark notable parts or mark multiple events and then simply reference scene numbers in discussions.
• Movable Zoom: Dynamically magnifies the area you point over. Get a close look at moving objects or writing.
• Slow Motion: Instantly watch videos at a slower rate.
• Instant Replay: Replay an event soon after it happens.
• Third Party Annotations: Add your own timed annotations to any video. Use it to display titles, captions, scene labels, and side comments during playback. The text is displayed on the control bar to avoid blocking the video screen.

I can see this being quite useful in the classroom particularly the zoom and slow motion options! Here's one I made earlier!!

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VLC- Media Player for the Future

VLC media player is a highly portable, cross-platform multimedia player that supports a large number of audio and video formats (mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, vorbis, divX, mp3, wmv, wma, avi, ogg, ogm, wav, flv).

VLC can also be used to play DVDs and VCDs. VLC is very useful for playing open standard formats, such as ogg, which many current media players cannot handle.

In addition, VLC can be used to view free streaming television and radio (via Shoutcast TV). There are lots of channels to choose from including a wide range of Christmas stations! To see how the streaming is set up, just watch this video from Jimmyr.

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Technorati Tags: audio, media player, ogg, video, vlc

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Standalone FLV Player

I recently downloaded an interesting FLV flash file only to discover that it would not run on any of my existing media players. A quick search of the Internet unearthed the standalone FLVPlayer which has proved to be just right for the job. It is extremely easy to use as you simply drag and drop the file into the player once it is running.

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Technorati Tags: flash, flvplayer

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