Someone should tell them to upload their encoder; they're apparently about 4 years out of date, which would explain why their video quality is rather subpar for the claim of "HD".<p><pre><code> x264 - core 57 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2005 - http://www.videolan.or
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Even Youtube does a better job keeping modern than this; there's no excuse for startups to be using outdated technology.
Can someone explain the rationale behind such a service? Twitter and HD video? I must be showing my age, but what is the point? I'm genuinely curious to understand what kind of company they are trying to build. Do they want to take down youtube?<p>Someone please spell it out for me.
A suggestion for Vidly: please make a video's view count available through the API. I just went with YouTube + bit.ly for a video & twitter related thing I'm doing because I have to have access to the view count.
Somebody dropped the ball here.<p>Not only is this possible with a few clicks -- it's already possible with no clicks at all.<p>It's an entire company devoted to replacing one feature that already works fine on an immensely popular site.<p>Just set up AutoShare. When you upload a video, you get a tweet (and FB and others get notified as well if you've set it up to cascade)<p>Where was the value again?<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGsF0YR7NU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGsF0YR7NU</a> (instructions on how to set this up on YouTube)
I don't know how popular a service like that is going to be.<p>I'm doing something similar at the moment - a combination of Twitter client for j2me phones that beside normal twitter functions allows taking photos/videos/audio recordings and a web site to display recorded material.<p>I've been live for about a month, and surprisingly I'm not seeing many users recording videos. Most would use it as a normal Twitter client, and some maybe will snap a few photos.