November 16th, 2008
by
admin
YouTube has been elevated to such heights by its own success, that you may not have come across these 4 other video services. There from 4 of the biggest (sometimes legacy) names on the internet, Yahoo!, MySpace, AOL, and even Google (in case you forgot Google tried to knock off YouTube before throwing in the towel and buying YouTube itself.
The thing is almost all of these services (like YouTube btw) screw with the compression of your video. Ergo, you can create a perfectly good looking video on your computer, upload it to their site and they will recompress it in a different format. What this means is that your video will often be distorted when you use any of these services.
Its kind of like if you take silly puddy and roll it out like cookie dough on a newspaper photograph of the Main Street USA. The image of the photograph will be captured on the silly puddy. Then you take the silly puddy and hand it to a three year old, who proceeds to stretch the picture into some new frame size and before you know it you are looking at a pixelated las vegas strip in puddy.
That’s kind of like what these services do as they attempt to fit videos that you load up of dimension A with shape B, into Shape C with dimension D.
Here are a few examples of the unfortunate results that I found with these services:
Yahoo!
MySpace
Google Video
In the Google example, if you embed the video its going to be significantly different than if you view it on the actual site.
AOL
Final note, this video was uploaded via TubeMogul, then sent out to each of the video services above. You may note a mis-spelling in the title, that happened at a TubeMogul level, and then was launched across the video channels above.
So here’s a tip, quadruple check your spellings! 
November 13th, 2008
by
admin
I was just about ready to write the final obituary on my favorite video sharing service, Revver. They have been down for days, and even before they were down, I could no longer upload videos to them via TubeMogul, plus, many users have been complaining that they have not received a payment from Revver for the last 2 months!
This Revver activity chart kind of shows the days they went dark, but I think the drop off in mid October might actually have signaled some of the first problems(slow loading videos, pages not found etc)
Well, just when all was looking darkest, the site lit back up again and the python errors seemed to disappear. The site is still running slow as a dial up connection, but up is better than down. Who knows, maybe all those videos will not be dropped from Google’s index even.
Whether Revver will stay up, pay anyone or go back down again is still anyone’s guess.
Here’s my recommendations:
- If you have videos on Revver, make sure you have them backed up.
- Download them from Revver if you don’t, and upload them to a more reliable video server.
- Don’t delete your videos from Revver. That will just waist time and possibly make things more unstable. A little retribution might feel good temporarily, but its not going to do anyone, including yourself any good.
- Let us know if you actually get paid(and we’ll share too). Getting paid is always one of the best ways to gauge whether or not a business is going to stay alive or not. If they can’t pay you, odds are they can’t pay anyone including employees and hosts.
That’s all I’ve got for now, will share more as I find it. Guess I picked the wrong month to try and run a viral cooking show under the concept of will it fry (like will it blend) but using a paella pan instead. That’s the breaks. 
May 5th, 2008
by
Brett Bumeter
I have a separate site where I run 2 Revver widgets. These are scrollable video lists that reside in my sidebar. A user can click on the video thumbnails and a video overlay pops up where someone can watch my Revver video.
THE PROBLEM with more than one Revver Widget Installed on the same Page
So the problem, is that I had 2 widgets on my site. The second batch of videos worked just fine, but the first batch, did not.
When you clicked on a thumbnail video from the first list, it attempted to load the video and then redirected to a 404 page error.
The culprit was not exactly obvious, but not completely hidden from view either.
Example of Error
The FIX of this Multiple Widget Revver Installation Error
If you install more than one set of widget code, copying and pasting the widget code into your site like this:
There’s a code tip from Revver that mentions that the first line of the javascript can not exist twice or more on the same website page.
So make sure you delete all subsequent lines of this code and your widgets should work.
Phwew, now that I have that fire put out on my own site, I can get back to troubleshooting some problem with one of my laptops that is bugging out on actual video production due to a ram issue ~ XP only recognizes 3 gigs instead of the 4 gigs that is installed.
