Tag Archive for 'Video'

MTV launches music video archive site

MTV has posted what seems to be nearly its entire historical archive of music videos on MTVMusic.com. A few quick and random searches of Mc Hammer, Sugarcubes and Flight of the Conchords all yeilded results. The quality of the videos are better than you’ll find on YouTube.

Flip video camera arrives a day early

Pocket video camera. Should record at much better quality than the point-and-shoot camera I’ve been using for video lately. Baumann’s in trouble. And who DOESN’T want more clips of Fitz?

Baumann the patriot

Taken today on Van Culin’s cell phone at a race track in Kentucky.

Latest teen dating trend: Nude pics via cell

IDK my BFF Jill

The latest national story out of Columbus, OH, courtesy of Foxnews: Teens are using their cell phones to send nude photos of themselves to other teens.

“I’ve seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed,” said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio, in the article. “You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity.”

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Video Section Retooled Using Google

Dickey ChroniclesThe video section of Sprkus.com has finally been retooled.

Instead of linking directly to the videos which forced a visitor to the site to have to wait for the whole video to download before it could be played, I’ve uploaded the videos to Google Video enabling me to stream the videos on my site similar to how videos are handled on YouTube.

The video’s are unlisted, so nobody can find them by doing a Google search. They’re still only available on my site. But by using Google Video, visitors can view them instantly.

I first tried using YouTube, but the functionality was very sporadic. Most often, the video would never play. It would just provide a loading symbol and never actually load anything.

Google Video, even though it’s still in its beta testing, performed perfectly for me. There were some server errors when uploading videos, but they play perfectly on the site.

There are no new videos on the site, but classics like the “Dickey Chronicles” and Baumann and Van Culin on The People’s Court never get old.