What is a blog worth if its not filled with bloggable events? Nothing! As such and with a little delay I herewith follow my personal New Year´s Resolutions and (re)start to fill this project´s blog with sense and life. So, what happened the last nine month (mate, can´t believe how fast times passes by)? Projekktor got featured on WEBM ´s home. We saw stunning startups using Projekktor as framework for content playout. The player got implemented to the web presence of germany´s most popular news service. The project became a commercial base for 3rd party companies like DMXZone – [...]
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Do you know that there´s a serious lack of truly free and good Flash based video players out there? If you try to get one for a personal project and take your time to deep-study what you can get and what the conditions are you surely do.
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My latest projekkt is called “projekktorXL“. Basically it´s a 10 feet lean back media interface for the WEB heavily based upon projekktor zwei. It offers a very relaxing way to enjoy webTV – like it has never been done without use of Flash before . Of course googleTV is kept in mind during the whole process. Below a few early state screenshots taken right from within my laboratory. What do you think?
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First things first: Thanks for your support and constructive feedbacks. Thanks to webresourcesdepot, the webm project, ajaxian, killerstartups, blogfreaks and all other HTML5 video freaks out there. Hey and hello to igorette, gradwerk, eimermusic and jewels. Yoho to the guys and gals of the growing projekktor community and to all early adopters so far. Against the background of the lack of frequent updates during the last weeks I received mails from concerned users asking if the project was just a flash in the pan. All I can say is: No worries, mates, the opposite is true. As some of you [...]
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The first release of the WordPress Projekktor plugin is now available. Basically it provides “shortcodes” allowing you to easily insert HTML5 video into your posts by using a simple tag. To add the pleasing touch of Projekktor it also installs the projekktor.js (wordpress edition) and a tiny admin backend. But the best thing is that the plugin automatically generates a playlist out of your videos posted which allows you to provide a stunning telly like experience. Get your personal copy at our download section. The documentation will soon be is available here.
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It´s not perfect yet but damn closer. The new release fixes dozens of bugs, adds more features and makes theming and integration much easier. What this post is all about? About Projekktor of cause, the HTML5 Flash Hybrid Video Player and VIDEO tag extension adding unique possibilities to enhance the on site video experience for your users and offers new opportunities to monetize and control your video content. Come on, give it a try at http://www.projekktor.com.
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The fist “official release” of Projekktor HTML5 Video Player is available for download. Please check out our stylish downloads section to grab a copy. The documentation included is still rudimentary but experienced web workers will find it very easy to add the player to any project which is using the new video tag. If you have problems to get the player running on your site or if you have any suggestions how to make the player itself better you´re heartily invited to add a post to the project´s discussion forum. Have Fun
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We are proud to announce the end of our test series regarding the capability and compatibility of our evolving Projekktor Zwei HTML5 video player project. we came to the following results and conclusions: compatible browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 3.0+, Opera 10+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+ IE6 uses flash fallback only of course. The best thing is that it is proved to be compatible to iPhone (apart from the fact that the current demo page features a quite too big dimensioned player instance) and 100% iPad ready. Reasons to celebrate and to finally concentrate on a wordpress plugin and a [...]
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