VL2010 New Release Functionality Preview #2: High Definition (HD) Video Supported
Our underlying FSBL platform has been supporting high definition video (HD) conversion for some time but it has been limited to primarily enterprise customers (read: “organizations”). We are going to add general support for HD conversion to the Vidlisting 2010 platform. As of this writing, you’ll need to be at least a free Vidlisting member to take advantage of it but we’ll make the final decision as we close in on the launch of Vidlisting 2010. This new functionality will include the ability to convert HD video from the newest iPhone. Developers using the API interface into Vidlisting will also be able to take advantage of HD processing.
We’ve continued the trend of autodetecting as much as possible on upload about your real estate video so that you won’t even need to mark your video as HD. Just upload it - no need to worry about telling the technical details. The system will automagically detect the video as high definition and process it as such.
We’ll also be adding significant improvements to our support for h.264 video for both upload and viewing.
As part of Vidlisting 2010 which will release shortly, we’ve rewritten our entire video upload and processing code. It still has the nice features such as generating video previews as soon as you upload videos. We’ve made things faster and more efficient while adding a bunch of new functionality primarily for premium and enterprise customers. I’ll cover the upload changes in more detail as part of my next post.
If you haven’t heard, Vidlisting 2010 is our next release due to go live in June. Though this blog post is focused only on a small feature, VL2010 has a boatload of new features and improvements on old ones. It is tightly focused on improved stability, ease of use, personalization, killer hyperlocal enterprise content management features, and performance. The VL2010 developer API upon which our own platform is built has had portions of the new functionality in use on beta customer websites since late 2009.
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