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DailyMotion goes HD

DailyMotion HD
DailyMotion has joined the ranks of online video sites offering high definition content. Any time a user uploads HD content, DailyMotion will automatically encode to stream as a 720p resolution video.

You'll need a computer with a fast processor and a fast internet connection to watch HD videos on DailyMotion. That's not particularly surprising, but we found that DailyMotion's HD videos were much choppier than HD content from competing services like Vimeo and Stage6.

DailyMotion has also launched an updated version of its video player with support for HD and standard definition video, realtime seeking, and keyboard shortcuts.

[via DailyMotion Blog]

Share snippits of YouTube videos with SceneMaker

Have you ever wanted to show someone 5 seconds of a video off YouTube, but have had to make them watch the entire 3 minute video clip to get to that important 5 seconds?

SceneMaker is designed to allow you to select a portion of a video off of YouTube, Metacafe, Google, or DailyMotion and share just that portion of the video with your friends without having to show them to the entire original video.

Creating your own scenes is fairly easy. You upload a video to the site using the original videos URL, and then select an in ands out point for your scene by pressing a start and stop button within SceneMaker while the video is playing. Once a video clip is created you are prompted to name the clip, and add tags and a description of the video. You can create multiple clips from one piece of video and you can email a link to those clips to friends or embed them on your website.

SceneMaker could be great for those funny video clips that you have to sit through 2 and a half minutes of un-funny to get to, or for sharing a small part of an interview or speech with a friend without making them sit through the entire thing.

Watch YouTube, DailyMotion Google Videos on your phone with Avot mV

avot mvSure, Google went and launched a new and improved mobile interface for YouTube this week. But what if you're looking for videos from DailyMotion, Google Video, or other sites? And what if you've got a phone that doesn't play well with the mobile version of YouTube?

Avot mV is an online video portal for mobile devices. When you visit the site with a mobile web browser you'll either find a mobile interface for browsing, searching, and playing videos or a download link for a Windows Mobile application that lets you perform the same functions. The application requires a Windows Mobile 5.0 or newer device, but the web interface should work as is with the Safari web browser on an iPhone.

You can also visit the site with a desktop browser to try out the interface before deciding whether to install it on your phone.

Ashampoo Clip Finder: Search and download YouTube clips, DailyMotion, and more

Trying to find the best cut of that online video of Darth Vader playing the harmonica, but don't want to spend the time to individually search all the video sharing sites? Ashampoo's free software ClipFinder is here to help.

ClipFinder is simple in function: enter in a search term, and ClipFinder will search for matches in a large number of video hosting websites, including YouTube, ClipFish, DailyMotion, IFilm (are our children even going to know that there are spaces in the English language?), and many more. Once the clips are located, you can view them right on your desktop, or you can save them to your hard drive (as .flv files).

ClipFinder is easily customizable: you can arrange the video sites to show in a different order, set a maximum of results, toggle the video's ranking, rating, number of viewers, and more. It even comes with two skins, Vista Red and Vista Black (though we would call them "eyesore" and "less of an eyesore").

A couple of caveats: besides the less than stellar UI, you'll also have to contend with a short registration process, where you receive an email to register the software in order to get your free serial number. Thankfully, all of your personal information is optional (save for the email address, of course), and after a very short wait, the code will arrive.

Besides the registration process and beauty-starved UI, ClipFinder is a valuable desktop tool for quickly aggregating video search results for your viewing and archiving purposes.

ClipFinder is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.

DailyMotion coming to the US (isn't it already here?)

Daily MotionVideo-sharing site DailyMotion is making a major push in the United States. Like pretty much anything else on the internet, it's not exactly off limits to US users right now, but the bulk of the site's audience is currently in France, where the company is located.

So what do these big new plans for US domination entail? The company plans to offer professional video along with user-generated content, include contextual advertising, and reward the top content producers with cash.

We can expect to hear announcements of partnerships with content producers soon. And it wouldn't be surprising to see some MTV and VH1 content soon, since it looks like a number of folks on the programming team have backgrounds working for those music networks.

Of course, a US push also means something else: US lawsuits. One of the reasons DailyMotion is relatively popular in the states is that it's easy to find copyright-infringing content. DailyMotion is crawling with full length feature films and television programs. It'll be interesting to see if the site takes steps to reduce the number of illegally uploaded clips -- and if it can make headway in the US market without those clips.

[via TechCrunch]

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