Please click on the “play” button on the video immediately beneath these words.
Here’s a sample of one Simple Yet Attractive video player that was used to stream video online just 30 minutes after these people (who operate some kind of boating supply business — hardly techies) downloaded the software.
And here’s a complete description of this terrific, easy to use, inexpensive software that makes it easy for you to stream video from your website. Unless (sigh) you’re Mac user….
If you don’t want to have to look at me and/or hear me speak, here is a transcript of what the video at the top of this page says, more or less.
If you’ve been looking for a way to stream video from your website or blog easily — and I mean really easily — I’ve got the solution for you…
UNLESS you happen to be a 100% Macintosh person, as I am. The software I want to tell you about runs only on Windows (PCs, not Macs). But if you use PCs, you’ll love this.
In order to stream that video of mine from this blog, I had to use three pieces of software to convert it first. You can see the result on this page.
It’s not difficult. But it’s cumbersome. It takes a bit of time, and it’s a bit of a nuisance. I sure wish there were a way to do it easier and faster and better.
Unfortunately I haven’t yet found that solution for Mac users, but I did just stumble open something for PC Windows users.
That video of me at the top of the page? Pretty good quality, really. Not in terms of production values, but as online streaming video goes…It’s okay. Not bad.
But the player it streams from is pretty “plain vanilla.” Not much style. It’s serviceable, but it doesn’t give me many options.
Meanwhile, this new software I found is so easy to use; it lets you do so much — it’s amazing.
Just watch the 3-minute demo on the guy’s website and you’ll see for yourself.
If you’re a Windows user and you have a website or a blog and you have some video that you want to stream from it, this solves all your problems. It’s insanely easy, and it has tons of cool features that I wish I had on the software I use.
If there were a Macintosh version of the software I’m describing for you, I would be using it. Period.
So please go to the guy’s website and check it out. In fact, I’m even including a link to another site that is using the player. Just click on that sample link and watch the little video that they made within 30 minutes of downloading the software. They had never used online video before, and they had it streaming within 30 minutes.
After that charming little video plays, it automatically redirects you to another of that site’s pages…where another video begins to play and, apparently, you can’t stop it even if you want to. Never mind about that. I just wanted you to see their first video and how nice the player looks and how cool it would be to stream video easily from your own blog or website.
Oh, and if you do check out the sample video first: They’re using just one of a bunch of different styles of video players. You might opt for something very different to fit your own style.
And then go to the guy’s website and see if you think it’s as cool a product (at a cheap price, too) as I do.
Me? I’ll continue my search for something as easy, as cool and as useful for us Mac users.
But if you’re a PC user? Go get the software, make some videos, have some fun.
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Very cool software Dan. Our company can make use of this for posting video of events, right after they happen.