Momentshowing

You may have noticed that i have a tendency to run ahead a lot.
But it’s like we’re in black space here.
Easily, postable video on the internet?
Video posted as easily as thinking?

Okay, but where are we going with this?
let me sketch a picture for myself to understand where all this could go.
There are so many players involved coming from different directions I get confused.
My understanding is growing but still limited, please correct and add where needed.

1. Okay, http://www.open-media.org/ is this new project looks like our answer to storage and bandwidth issues.
let’s wait and see…. because its amazing timing for us videobloggers.
The project is a part of Archive.org which will let each of us store our video on their site FOREVER as long as we give other people access to the video.
Why would they do this? well, check them out.
They want to archive the history of humans by recording what we create on the net.
So if this project comes through, you can post video all day and never worry about bandwidth or storage overruns on your server.

2. Then, we need a way to make videoblogging easier.
we need an all-in-one videoblogging tool that is lazy-day easy.
It must edit, compress, and post with simple clicks.
Nothing like this really exists yet.
Sean Gilligan‘s system, Vblogcentral, is the best Ive seen so far.
and he is working hard listening to us all.
An easy tool is most important because without a way for people to produce…the video we see on the net will be made by the same people who make our dumb TV.

3. Next, playlists are what will let us watch videos, that are on separate blogs, all in one place.
It’s a simple, elegant idea that Lucas Gonze developed initially for songs.
His system called WebJay is nothing short of incredible.
Basically you can link up all the separate HTML pages that hold songs or videos.
Press play and they pop up one after the other.
The video is pretty buggy right now, but I have no doubt that Lucas will persevere.

4. The next problem is codecs…better known as Windows vs Quicktime vs REAL.
some computers can play some videos and not others.
everyone can play different combinations.
We need to get the viewer to choose which player to view the video.
This needs to be standardized on all video servers.

If the above problems find solutions, then I can easily make and post a videoblog, never worry about storage, too many people can never overload my server, and no one has a compatibility problem watching my videos.
Now we come to a fork in the road…
some people seem to want to keep videos small and sent through portable devices.
(someone must tell me how’s that going to work? what kind of devices?)

But other of us want to make the videos big and send them to our TV’s so we can collectively watch them.

so we need to …

5. . hook the computer to the TV.
I really don’t know much about this process.
There is a FREEVO and MythTV.
But I need education on this.
Maybe there is other projects happening.
I have a friend who wants to build a “black box” that connects your computer to the TV.
Its a little mysterious to me how it works, but basically your internet-able computer becomes like a cable network with videobloggers as the different channels.
Why put videos on your TV?
Because everything happens on the couch.
Its a shared space and where many people live. this is a reality. so we go to where the people are.

5. We create the ability to create and share DVD quality videos.
Battle Torrent is the best thing going.
They want to make sharing a 4GB file as easy as sending an email to a friend.
4GB video file is a beautiful, broadcast-quality, full screen short video…not a stuttering video in a small box on the computer.
Bit Torrent is a whole thing in itself:
basically it’s Peer-to-Peer file sharing, except now you download the video from multiple sources at the same time.
So a 4GB file might download in minutes.
And tied with RSS, you would subscribe to your favorite video feeds…
in the background your computer would download videos all day and night without you noticing…
and you could make easily playlists…
and watch them on your TV.
It would look and sound great.
And this would be video from all over the world, uncensored, unmediated by any outside source.
I as a videoblogger would not have to create a 28 minute show to fit a network schedule..
I make the video as short or as long as needed. The viewer will judge me on how true I am to the material and whether Im worth subscribing to.

So….
whatever way videoblogging goes, we need to keep creating videoblogs.
the language is forming here.
as the technology develops its important we have a say in where it goes.
im mean, right now theres not many of us in the room.
Please let me know how you see how all this developing.

Im obsessed by this new idea…
maybe you can tell me if its possible.

Here’s what I want to do….
I make a video post.
but instead of you giving me a text comment, you post a video comment.
other people post video comments as well.
the page has a button that says “play all”…which lets you play all the
videos back to back.
the “play all” has an html address that can be emailed to anyone to view the
thread of a video conversation.

You get it?
It’ll be like a game of “exquisite corpse”(a game I just learned).
I tell part of a story, then you pick up where I left off, then someone else picks up, then someone else…
Then, each videoblog entry becomes like a mini-TV show made in a collaborative effort.
Conversations would come alive.

how can we make this happen?
how can we get:
1. Blog comments to accept a video file
2. A “play all” button on a post page that plays all the video comments in the order it was posted