Chime.Tv’s video player has got the kind of flash and style Ruby developers would envy, especially since it’s programmed in PHP and AJAX. The player, which dishes out 22 themed channels of viral video content, with a bunch of added utilities.
The full page player is similar to Joost and Babelgum, but in your browser. Like the IPTV guys, you can flip through pre-made channels, roll your own, or search for content by keyword. The player is pretty hands off, and will just run if you give it a channel or a search term to munch on. The player searches through videos on YouTube, Veoh, Metacafe, Google Video, and DailyMotion. You can reorganize the results by title, length, or randomize. They also have a bookmarklet so you can add content to your channels as you surf the web.
So, iIf you want to create the “bikini” channel, all you have to do is search for “bikini” in the search bar and Chime will start playing through all the results. The player also has a friend feature for sharing your channels and vids with someone else.
The player can play in full screen mode, wide screen, or anywhere in between by dragging the corner of the video. It also comes with some color controls for brightness, contrast, and color in case the original quality is less than stellar.
All this thing needs is a mashup with one of the TV show aggregators.
Seems to be made mostly in Flash.
“Chime.Tv’s video player has got the kind of flash and style Ruby developers would envy, especially since it’s programmed in PHP and AJAX”
Why would a Ruby developer give a damn about PHP, please explain
Ew, all flash? That’s great for the full screen video zoom, but the navigation would be better done in HTML and Javascript. They would get better usability, and better indexing by search engines would be a free bonus.
Anything new for the internet is good for us!
Kelly
What’s with this push to bring the entire internet to one place? “chime.tv is a place where you can watch videos from all over the internet in one place”. Same kind of thing with Wikipedia inclusionism. It’s like trying to create a walled garden. At least pre-web-2.0 things acknowledged the diversity of the internet, creating portals and search engines that let you find things easily, but didn’t attempt to keep you tied to one place. Now we attempt to lock in by out convenience-ing the other guy, rather than actually building a better product? I guess there’s something to be said for one-stop shopping, a la Walmart, but it doesn’t encourage diversity.
Every new things is good for all internet user
@anonymous apparently these guys do http://railsenvy.com/
Being online content provider, distribution is now a cake walk. great!! please keep creating easy free ways for abstract10.com to distribute content.
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the abstract surrealist
the only reason the Chad hurley post’s isnt being - deleted
- it must be the real Youtube chad hurley
- heh :/
Another cool YouTube site that was launched recently:
View Box Player (http://www.viewboxplayer.com)
Lets you watch YouTube and DVDs while you work online or with other programs.
Is there any one centralized list of all of the video platforms? I would love to see a list and what their various focus is on.
Anyone?
They need a couple more frames to make things easy to navigate!
This makes the list of web pages that suck!
Are they legally allowed to embed youtube and google video in their own player?
this site is sweet i love it
I’d have sex with that page… especially the bikini channel
“Chime.Tv’s video player has got the kind of flash and style Ruby developers would envy, especially since it’s programmed in PHP and AJAX”
This makes no sense, precisely. Ruby developers would have no reason to “envy” this site, regardless of what language was used on the server side. Ruby is generally speaking more capable than PHP in any case, although it is arguably less mature. AJAX is not a programming language at all, but rather a set of technologies and methods used to create “Web 2.0″ style pages. AJAX is equally available to PHP or Ruby developers. The actual browser code is always written in Javascript in any case, not PHP, Ruby, etc. which are server-side languages when used for web development.
Wow, I really, really like that player. I’ve been looking for a site like this for a while - fast navigation & a player that fits my screen. This is my new procrastination home page
Awesome work guys!
“Chime.Tv’s video player has got the kind of flash and style Ruby developers would envy, especially since it’s programmed in PHP and AJAX. ”
What are you on about? Is this just a random linkbait attempt?
I really like Chime.tv and featured them in my print column/blog. I think the best part of their interface is the ability for users to program their own channels with content from various sites. We all use Tivo, and this is Tivo for Web video. I don’t care the network, I can save it to watch again later.
I credited TechCrunch of course for finding the original.
http://www.dkworldwide.com/tec.....trackback/
Click on my link to the founder’s website, he said since being featured here the site was covered on G4: Attack of the Show. Nice work TechCrunch/Nick.
I will stick to Yuxt. Unless Chime.tv clean up their interface.
Apparently Yuxt guys have been around for a while with much better interface.
http://yuxt.com/zaq/funny_Ikea
With simple drag and drop it’s much easier to create collection there. Adding video into Yuxt is even easier: by simply adding yuxt.it/ in front of the url of the page ( http://yuxt.it/http://www.tech.....-far-away/ )
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