Vlogging

I've been looking for the best way to put video into this blog. I was hoping for some sort of Flash capture built-into Wordpress that would let me host the videos here (as I've mentioned before I like the idea of keeping all my content locally just in case), but all the plug-ins I can find host somewhere else. With that the case it seems easiest to use iMovie to record the video then use it post it directly to YouTube. I guess Google will be around as long as I will anyway. Then I can embed the video here. That's what I did below. It takes a while for YouTube to digest the video, but at least I get the embed code right away. Of course I need something to say, too, but maybe as I get used to the idea of video blogging I'll find my voice.

Comments

[Sascha]

Henry killed a Dog!? Otherwise, yeah, ermm... you'll find your words :)

[Sascha]

Hmmm, I'll give my hand a go at trying to automate the process of Youtube recording within Wordpress, and Youtube allows you to record video directly from their site... so if I could somehow add that into the WP-Admin Panel, and then it can just grab the code automatically it should work...

I'll start working on it tomorrow, but I can't promise anything. If anyone else can do it (I'm not the greatest with Wordpress) then hey, give it a try yourself, you'll probably do better than me.

[MacBros]

I would highly recomment http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/flv-embed/" title="FLV Embed" rel="nofollow">FLV Embed also. I've been using it for quite some time now and it's simple to use. Just upload your flv and jpg (If you want an image) to a directory and poing FLV embed to it.
Easy as pie! I can't make pie, but I heard it was easy to make. :p

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[...] Laporte is looking for a WordPress plugin that would allow him to host videos from his own website using a WordPress [...]

[Matthew Kris]

Any word on when you'll do a Zune review? Please forgive me if you have published one already. I haven't had the time to listen to all 100 of your weekly netcasts. ;)

[Tim Gillin]

the podpress link mentioned above is good.

[Flyingeagle78]

A good program that I have found that I use to convert one video format to another is visualhub. It has a nice little list of what you can convert to including flv. It is also good for converting videos for the iPhone, iPod, etc.

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

[Fredrik Gyllensten]

Me like :)
You should ask your kid if he would like to vlog a little . :-)

[Niko]

As strange as that was, it was very entertaining! Keep up the good work, Leo.

[robin miller]

funny stuff. keep 'em coming.

[jbb]

Leo,
You might want to create a static page where you host just the latest Vlog... just a thought. jbb

[stephan]

If you would use Safari for vlogging you could capture directly into blip.tv, which can also post the video onto a wordpress blog automatically. Since they also provide the direct flv download link, a script could be written to download the videos to your server for backup.

This might be an option in the future, in case noone writes a wp plugin directly.

[drew]

The Anarchy Media Player Plugin works great and you can host any type of video yourself and tweak the sizes of the players for each format.

[David Rader]

http://vimeo.com/ looks promising!