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Thanks to Brian Edmondson, who makes all the videos for Overcome Everything’s ListBuilding Club, I found a new flash player for my EasyBlogTricks.com blog. I need to do an overhaul there because of the changes to WordPress 2.7, but haven’t had the time. Still, this new player will really make things easier for me. I’ve had lots of trouble keeping the videos (especially the video on the front door) working.

I think I have a solution!

The site is LongTail Video at: http://www.longtailvideo.com/

There are complete installation instructions, and you can download the player free, as long as you’re not using it for commercial gain. Since EasyBlogTricks.com is just an information site, I can use it with the non-commercial license. But if it works as well as I think it will, I’ll definitely buy a commercial license for only 39 Euros, which translates to about $50. You may think that’s a lot for a video player, but this one is very customizable. It rocks!

There are plugins for things like:

• Running rolling ads in the player. Stick one into your blog’s sidebar.
• WordTube converts your site to a “YouTube” type environment in a WordPress blog. Neat.
• Viral allows you to have a share function and will allow viewers to see other videos you have created

There are different skins you can choose from, as well, from simple to insane.

The add-ons are quite interesting, too. Here’s one made just for my specific purpose:

“The Simple Flash Video Plugin builds on the plugins that already allow easy posting of .flv or .mp4 files on the popular Wordpress platform. It also enables advanced stats tracking of your viewership via Simple Stats.”

Sweet! Tracking stats and a cool player, too!

If you’re into video, and you should be, this is a site you should definitely check out. I’m learning more about video and all the cool things you can do with it every day, and it’s becoming the medium of choice online. Think of these things:

• People are used to watching TV. It’s only natural that since the speed of our connections continues to improve that video will become more and more popular with the Internet audience. Just look at YouTube and how fast it’s grown over the past 3 years.
• Creating video is often easier than writing. Many people hate to write, and video is a perfect solution. Video products will become the norm, rather than the exception.
• Video is fun to create and to edit. Making short films and editing them to show to an audience is getter easier and more fun to do all the time.

So, it’s time you jumped into video. If you’re already there, trust me… you need to check out LongTail and their very cool product.

7 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

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   Sandra Friend
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:59 pm #

   One of my website clients was just showing me a site that used this player and said “can I have this too?” Now I know where to find it. Thanks, Pat!

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   Tyler
   February 20th, 2009 at 3:06 pm #

   This is awesome, Long Tail seems like a great resource for web developers who are budget conscious. The tracking features are amazing for a free open-source player as well. Great find mate!

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   gaurav
   February 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 am #

   i wanted a player and this suggested me a good site to get this i m thankful to u.,…….

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   vazrakar
   February 25th, 2009 at 9:54 am #

   very good idea, that by displaying videos of our company products on our sites, we can easily attract target visitors to our services and promote our products. Its one of the amazing feature to install along with our website. great work you have done. Can i have more detail information regarding it.

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   Pat Marcello
   February 25th, 2009 at 2:19 pm #

   Vazrakar,

   Please tell me what you want more detail on… This is a great way to get a player into your website, and the directions on the site are pretty clear.

   What you do is make a video, using a Flip Cam (which are totally awesome and easy) or a video cam, upload it to a folder on your hosting account via FTP, and then, use the player that’s described. I’ve tried doing this without this player, and believe me… it’s a nightmare.

   Read through the instructions there, and let me know how I can help you.

   - Pat

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   kavitha
   March 4th, 2009 at 8:54 am #

   Using this information we can generate more sales and profit because by video’s we can display the advantages of the product that we are selling.Can u say me the instructions how to implement it.I would be grateful to you.

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   Pat Marcello
   March 4th, 2009 at 6:55 pm #

   Hi Kavitha!

   All the instructions are on the site at http://longtailvideo.com.

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