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Well, here’s a great demonstration video (very cool!) via Respectful Insolence:

Yeah, I had that problem. zenphoto uses flowplayer, but I think the problem would exist in any flash-based video player. Basically, it would need to download the whole .mp4 file before starting to play – defeating the whole idea of ’streaming’

Apparently, I’m not alone with this problem. And, as often is the case, someone else on the internet has solved it admirably with MetaDataMover.

Doesn’t your mp4 file stream properly over the Internet? Does the mp4 need to download completely before playing in a Flash player? rndware’s Metadata Mover moves metadata from the end to the beginning of mp4 files. This allows any mp4 file to be streamed using Flash players, without needing to load the entire movie.

I’m just puzzled why this tool needs administrator access. Hope I haven’t installed a trojan…

Local cache: mp4MetadataMover0.9

… before the music industry got to her. She’s actually quite talented. (via BoingBoing)

If you’ve been as confused as I have about all those “Stop the TV tax” and “Local TV Matters” ads, here’s a YouTube video explaining it. I only wish it had been highlighted before the CRTC comments deadline had closed! (via BoingBoing)

So I recently picked up a Canon Vixia HF-200 from Mostly Digital. Nice HD Camcorder… love it (besides the fact that the battery that comes with it is underpowered – I bought a heftier one from a no-name Chinese manufacturer that keeps it recording for a while)

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It’s funny because it’s true:

(via Dawg’s Blog)

I use Zenphoto for my gallery, which uses the Flowplayer plugin (as one option) for playing videos (flv & mp4).

I just noticed this, but the out-of-the box settings for the above do not preserve the aspect ratio of videos (i.e. they are stretched to fit the player, or the screen in full screen mode). And there is no option to change this setting in zenphoto. (They have a dropdown for the aspect ratio of the THUMBNAIL – how useless is that?). So I did some hacking of the code, and now it works great!

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I was having a little issue with Premiere Elements; namely, that when I tried to create a new project, it would not let me “Change Settings” – I clicked on the button, and the dialog that came up was empty, and all the buttons were blank.

This wasn’t an issue before, but I have some videos of my son taken by my brother-in-law’s camcorder, which records in HD. So, I need an HD profile…

The solution is posted here in the Adobe forums:

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