If you have media files that are behaving badly on playback, you may want to use a program like GSpot to look into the file details. ABC. Occasionally, we hear from users who are creating and uploading MP4 files to Ensemble Video (without transcoding), and find that they play back in the Flash-base... [More]

Scott Nadzan, IT director at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, shared some recent test results that show how new desktop hardware can reduce time to encode, and significantly ease the ‘pain’ of encoding in the process.  ABC. Scott Nadzan Scott ran a cool encoding test, out... [More]

Categories can provide a useful means for organizing access to content when you are publishing a lot of videos to an embedded video library.  ABC. To publish to any Ensemble Video Web destination you must choose a Category in the Sharing form in the Add/Edit wizard. There is a single “Default ... [More]

Joel Steinfeldt, Media Communications Specialist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recently shared with me the details of how to use YouTube transcription and closed caption functions with Ensemble Video (Thanks, Joel!). ABC. Joel Steinfeldt Joel has experimented with YouTube’s ... [More]

Check out a live stream at the University of Illinois Chicago of a Perregrine Falcon nest outside the office of LAN Administrator Scott Quinn. When this entry was written the chicks were a little over a week old and just gaining their bearings! ABC. UIC Peregrine Falcon's Nest Live streaming can... [More]

Video capture technologies make it fairly easy to capture on-demand video so you can use it for your own purposes. While this is great in some ways, it creates significant challenges when trying to protect your own video content. ABC. Real Networks Real Player SP can record on-demand video content ... [More]

A treasure trove of video content is locked up in legacy tape- and disk-based media. Converting to streaming formats is moving to the front burner for all types and sizes of organizations. While you can spend a small fortune converting legacy content, there are also some reasonably priced, easy-to-u... [More]

Embedding individual videos with a Flash-based player in a Web page can be a powerful and useful way to provide viewer access to video managed in your Ensemble Video library. It’s easy to do, and there are a few things you can do to customize how your videos look and play on your pages. ABC. There ... [More]

We’re seeing incredible growth in the use of video to capture and document what happens in the world around us. As inexpensive, easy-to-use video recording technologies continue to evolve, the potential is extraordinary!  ABC. I’ve heard seasoned video professionals suggest that the only reall... [More]