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VideoEgg, founded by three Yale graduates, launched at DEMO in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday.
Given the light content on their website, my bet is that the folks at VideoEgg have been working quite hard over the last few weeks to get the product ready for release.
VideoEgg is a web-based publishing service that allows users to capture video content from virtually any device and format and publish it to the web. Click here for an example featuring Buzz Bruggeman.
At first glance, VideoEgg has some really excellent features. A live demo is available on their site, and allows you to drag a video into the viewer to get a taste for how easy it is to use. Flash 8 allows the viewing of videos with enhanced quality.
From their launch press release:
Today, VideoEgg, Inc. unveiled the VideoEgg Publisher, a new Web-based video publishing technology that makes it easy for everyday Internet users to capture, encode, upload, and watch online video for the first time. A ‘universal adapter’ that captures directly from hundreds of devices and reads dozens of formats, the VideoEgg Publisher allows users to painlessly publish video that anyone can watch without worrying about player compatibilities, encoding settings, or extra software. VideoEgg announced the Publisher at the DEMOfall 2005 Conference, the invitation only, leading industry showcase for launching innovative technology products.
Currently, posting video online is complicated for users, requiring a highly technical understanding of formats, encoders, players and servers. The VideoEgg Publisher simplifies the difficult video encoding and posting process, allowing users to capture video directly into a Website from camcorders, Web cams, and mobile phones. It also accepts video files via a simple drag-and-drop interface. Before movies are encoded and posted, users can perform basic edits with the Publisher’s simple editing tools.
Using this system, videos are immediately available for viewing online through the Flash-based VideoEgg Player, a “playerless” solution that does not require external players like Windows Media and QuickTime.
Lots of interesting information about the service above…and the last paragraph is really interesting. Publishers can easily integrate content directly on their website by simply adding a html snippet.
This is something I really like about VideoEgg – it appears that they are really focused on making their product as easy as possible to use.
I’ve downloaded their software (which seems to be off the site now) and am digging through a box for my video camera. I’m hoping to get some good content up and indexed on Truveo.
Additional Reading (and Listening)
DowntheAvenue, VentureVoice (interview with the founders), Buzznovation, Carl Plumer
Great app to publish NEWS not seen on western TV Channels (like the tsunami in Indonesia, short while ago air plane crash and now bird flue) material what never would see daylight on western channels, it would be to schocking to air for the eues of western people. Tough great to publish for friends or family back in Europe. I used a old pinacle capture card connected to my TV tuner and recognized without any problems, so as my old Kodak web cam and firewire card. One problem tough… It is not made (yet) for use on low bandwidth (modem) which are still number one used devices in this part of Asia. So would be handy to have a bandwidth/quality setting to keep files as small as possible. I see in the 2.0 business very good ideas tough the low bandwidth users seems to be forgotten…
I’ve tested it and it’s an interesting and nice app (here a demo video)
http://skytg24....9/videoegg.html
It’s a sort of jusspress http://www.jusspress.com/ but instead of using a desktop software (jussdrop) Videoegg uses a plugin browser embedded.
Both these 2 apps are very interesting but have some limitations: do not allow to host the files on your own server (good for private bad for companies); limited lenght allowed (for Jusspress only 2 minutes for each video).
An other problem with the flv/swf they produce is that it’s bigger than an wmv, for instance (but new Flash release promise a better and optimized codec).
Marco
ps: by the way you guys at Techcrunch have a fantastic blog
Hey guys…thanks for the VideoInk so to speak! I hope to see you in New Haven, and that by they then you are all using ActiveWords!
It doesn’t work on Macs, here is the quote from the site: “A Macintosh version of the VideoEgg Publisher is currently under development – please check back soon!”
It doesn’t work on Linux either.
“The VideoEgg Publisher is currently unavailable on your operating system.”
videoegg’s program is horrible. there are programs out that are far superior.
what other sites are out there that perform the same operation as videoegg.com?
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VideoEgg.com is having some problems today – the site appears to be offline. Hopefully it’s just DNS issues and not a real problem with their infrastructure.
to be offline. Hopefully it’s just DNS issues and not a real problem