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YouTube Auto Plays ALL User’s Channel Videos
[Update: Ok seemed like a glitch. Only Partner accounts have the auto-play feature.]
I don’t know if this is a glitch or if YouTube is keeping this feature. Previously only YouTube Partner videos auto-played, but now all user channels auto-play.
YouTube has been under scrutuny for how it measures views. Auto-plays used to count as a view, but now that every channel has auto-play enabled, I would imagine that auto-plays no longer count as a view.
I was pretty pissed off when I went to my channel and saw the video auto-play. At first I thought I had become a Partner. Nope.
Now anytime I visit my channel I’ll have to hear myself. How annoying.
Youtube Uploads 1024 megabytes!!!
Youtube has increased the maximum upload capacity for videos from 100 megabytes to 1024 megabytes! This increase will allow for some major high resolution videos to be viewed on the mega-video site. Additionally video producers can upload multiple videos at once using an extra downloadable software pack.
Videos still have the 10 minute cap.
In other related news Youtube launched a new feature called Youtube Annotations.
[Update]
I’ve uploaded a 800 megabyte file onto YouTube:
Looks like crap. Click on the video and read its description for more information. I guess higher resolution videos won’t come from higher storage upload.
Youtube Annotations
Youtube has added a new feature called Annotations! This is awesome for video producers because it allows you to write notes on your video! Include popup text with links and you can have some major kick ass videos! Imagine you say a URL – now you can write it out in the video and provide a link to it for viewers to click on during the video!
This is fantastic thanks Youtube!
[Correction]
Currently links can only be to: YouTube Video, Channel, or Search result.
Also currently the text is only available on videos embedded on Youtube.
My How-To Annotate video:
FOX’s Fringe – Coming August
As an extra youtube upfronts video Fringe is the Fox promotional trailer lasting several
minutes for the next J.J. Abrams show. While it looks a lot like a remake of The X-Files,
Fringe does seem to be trying to distance itself from other shows of a similar nature like
The Inside. What does seem to be a recurring theme is just as usual J.J. is using some
of the same actors as in his other shows and movies, this time taking a recent addition to
Lost as can be seen in this trailer.
The basic idea for Fringe is a show where someone investigates supernatural occurrences in the United States. It sounds extremely similar to that of The X-Files where two people investigates supernatural occurrences in the United States.
While we would love to be able to give you a direct link to the video youtube is removing it everytime it’s added to their website so a quick youtube search is required rather than a direct link in this case.
What does this mean for you? Well in this case it’s not complicated. You can watch
the trailer if you wish and get a taste for Fox’s show coming out in August.
YouTube Widescreen Player
[Update 12/04/08: YouTube now allows for HD streaming. and
YouTube has enabled Widescreen embeds.
Updated 11/24/08: YouTube defaults to 16:9 player format, but what does that mean for the web video industry?]
YouTube’s been going under some mega changes so far this year and now they’ve updated their new player to resize itself to true widescreen resolution. For right now that only pro’s that I can notice between the new widescreen player versus the older player is that if there are widescreen black bars the majority of them will be cut off.
Is this really all that newsworthy? I say no, but the question is why does YouTube find it necessary to release a widescreen format player? There’s got to be something else that this new form of a player can offer that the old one didn’t. Hopefully they’ll let us know what exactly that is soon enough.
Right now because their new player does not embed onto third party sites we can’t show you the differences directly within this post. You can see an example here. Make sure to turn on and off the old/new player to see the differences.
I’m good at photoshop.