Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says Jean-Francois Boudier, Stupeflix co-founder and CTO, access to the API was dependent on requirements definition, commercial proposal, negotiation, contracts, signatures, etc.

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Stupeflix Reworks Video Creation API Access To Commoditize Video Creation

Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State of HTML5 Video . They went through six key factors on how HTML5 Video is doing presently to give the industry an overhead look at how things are progressing and I have to say, in some areas it’s quite grim

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The State Of HTML5 Video – Growing, But Also Kind Of A Mess

Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!). While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known.

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A Tale of Two Online Video Freemium Platforms: Longtail and Playwire

Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known. Of course, it’s not quite all that

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A Tale of Two Freemium Online Video Platforms: Longtail and Playwire

Jeroen “JW” Wijering is an online video pioneer, Chief Digital Architect of LongTail Video and the creator of the Internet’s most popular and ubiquitous media players, the JW Players , which have generated millions of downloads since their launch in 2005. The unassuming Dutch internet entrepreneur helped changed the face of the online video industry with his open source JW Player which can be found on tens of millions of websites. Even YouTube ran on the JW Player for the first 18 months of its existence.

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Who is JW? A Documentary of an Online Video Superhero

This week marks the deadline for Open Connected TV standard proposals.

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Open Web TV Standard in the Works: A Foundation for Web-TV

Longtail Video announced that JW Player 5.5 is available and features a whole new set of features specifically for HTML5 including a new JavaScript plugin model, and mode-specific configuration options.

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JW Player 5.5 Gets HTML5 Javascript Plugin Support, HTML5-Specific Configuration

Some time ago we put together a list of tips on formatting your sites so that they would look spiffy in Google TV. They were mostly taken from Google themselves, but now the technology giant has gone even further and have given templates that can be used to format your content properly for the platform

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Google Releases Templates & Web UI for Easier Google TV Site Optimization

LongTail is set to fully release an updated version of the popular JW Player which includes some all new features as well as some updated features. The major features include auto-detect Flash and HTML5 in one, a Javascript API and new HTML5 playback features.Now with a single JW Player you can give your users the

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New JW Video Player 5.3 – Combines Flash, HTML5, Plus New Javascript API for Consistent Experience

DailyMotion is working on implementing better ways for their users to discover video content on DailyMotion. Apparently, what they had just wasn’t working (which might explain their serious lack of stringency in what is acceptable as a view, having just scraped the bottom of the barrel in the latest TubeMogul research on the matter)

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DailyMotion Expands Video Discovery, Localization And Player Features