November 12, 2007
After watching a video on a web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your web browser cache, VideoCacheView can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
VideoCacheView automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your web browser cache.
November 4, 2007
Streaming Room is a very strange video application:
This web 2.0 application allows to create virtual chat rooms with live video streams of your very own choice.
Concretely:
1) You create your chat room.
2) You select live video streams you want to add to your video streaming room (out of all live video streams available on Ustream.tv)
3) You can then invite friends, colleagues, partners, customers to watch video streams with you and to chat in live.
It is hard to find how this type of service can be used, but I’m sure it is possible to find interesting ideas where this web 2.0 service can bring a real added value.
Video conferencing with multiple attendees is possible with a text area. But I think profesional video conference providers are already doing far better than that…
Streaming Room could allow to follow a sportive event with different camera angles and to chat live about it with connected friends or supporters…
If you have any concrete idea, feel free to propose it within comments…
September 17, 2007
Sidereel is a website where you can find thousands of links to watch streaming videos as on the famous TV Links or Joox, but not only. Indeed this site wants to become the reference for every type of video on the Internet, meaning contents under copyright illegaly streamed as well as legal download sites and VOD platforms.
Almost everything can be found on Sidereel : series, movies, documentaries, TV shows, cartoons, more private videos, music videos, etc…
The model is very simple: user generated content…
As you can read on Sidereel: “You’re the guide - SideReel’s success is based on contributions by users like you. The entire site is editable and anyone can add a page! Feel free to add a review, information about the cast or crew of a show, or a new page entirely. Give it a shot.”
September 2, 2007
“This video is no longer available†is the message you will read on YouTube video player when this video has been removed either by the YouTube (copyrights reasons or censored video…) or by the user that has uploaded the video…
Sometimes the video is unavailable but it’s still showing up in the video search results, but once again you will be prompted with a laconic “This video is no longer available†message…
But stay tuned ! If you really want to watch this video, there is chances that it is still somewhere cached by YouTube…in the same way as you can browse pages in the cache of Google…
Two websites allow to find this “cached” videos for you:
In order to retrieve this “deleted video” you need to get the unique ID of the video on YouTube. To get this unique ID, just copy the end code of the video URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNIQUE_VIDEO_ID
Then you just need to paste this ID to one of the two services mentioned and if the video is still in YouTube cache, you will get it !
August 14, 2007
Google introduces a marketplace to sell and buy videos on its platform Google Video. The idea was interesting: a site to sell its own videos or to buy real contents (no only videos of the neighbor following down…).
Google was even claming that this market was to increase, attracting interesting partners such as CBS or the NBA.
Now, Google announced it’s over…Google Video is still online, but don’t expect to sell or buy videos anymore…this marketplace is over (for now…?).
Actually, most people prefers to watch free contents, even though they have to see advertisements first…
Charlene Li, a Forrester Research analyst, think that this was a failure to focus on videos rather than on communities around videos, which make the success of YouTube….
But, the target was not the same maybe…and there is maybe not a place for a service between VOD and free web videos yet…
Now Google seems to focus on advertisement and free video contents around communities…
