Portable Video

Adobe has added support for HTML5 H.264-encoded video to its Photoshop.com photo and video sharing site, and adding an HTML5 video playback widget to Dreamweaver. That means that Photoshop.com videos are now playable on any device that supports H.264, including Apple’s iPhone and iPad, regardless of whether it supports Adobe’s own Flash Player. The Dreamweaver [...]

Chatroulette, the anonymous video chat service that has captured the Internet’s imagination (and free time), is known for wanton nudity and crazy stunts. That’s because of the “anonymous” part of Chatroulette. You can be anyone you want, and you can wear anything you want (or not)! However, Chatroulette isn’t as anonymous as we previously supposed. [...]

It seems like HD is all the rage these days. A friend of mine recently did a month-long market research before putting down a sizable lump of cash for a 47-inch behemoth. And yes, it really is very impressive. Still, sometimes I find myself wanting to go back to simpler times; back when men were [...]

In the ongoing web video wars — which have started to look a lot like Flash vs. Everything Else — the latest battleground could be Wikipedia. A coalition of forces, including Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, Miro and Kaltura (which is the video partner for Wikimedia), has launched a site called Let’s Get Video on [...]

YouTube has had some troubles in the past with labels asking them to remove music videos and generally giving them a hard time for users infringing copyrights. But users are still looking for music on YouTube, and now YouTube has found a way to embrace this and help out budding musicians in the process via [...]

RandomDorm is a new site that’s following in the footsteps of the explosively popular random video chat service Chatroulette, but adding its own twist: it’s for college students only. To use RandomDorm, you need a .edu email address or a Facebook account with a .edu address as the primary email. RandomDorm is also limited to [...]

Here’s a semi-useful nugget from YouTube: You can easily stop a video from buffering by using the context menu. I’m not quite sure when this option actually comes in handy, but it’s there if you need it. The blog post over at Google Operating System says that it’s useful if the video is boring and [...]

Streaming video has been around for a while on the iPhone, with players like Ustream and Qik launching apps that allow you to, both, view and broadcast live video. With its new iPhone app, Justin.tv is just about the last live streaming service to make the jump to mobile. The thing is, it hasn’t caught [...]

Miro, the cross-platform app that makes watching online TV insanely easy, just got a big new upgrade to version 3. Not only is Miro snappier — especially when it comes to startup time — it’s also louder, with a higher maximum volume for those of us with crappy laptop speakers. Miro also now has subtitles, [...]

Handbrake is a great tool for ripping DVDs and it’s typically the one recommended by power users. Less experienced users, however, may find the interface a bit too complicated. VidCoder offers a solution to that problem. It’s basically a simplified fronted for Handbrake offering only the necessities. Choose a source, a destination folder for your [...]