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As per these requests I made a screencast of running the SVG video demos on Opera 9.5. My apologies for the crappy video - it’s only my second attempt. Also, I should stress that the framerate of the video on Opera is perfect (any jitteriness is the screencast’s fault, not Opera’s).

The Opera web browser really puts the other guys to shame when implementing open standards. I wholeheartedly agree with Doug that it’s a shame that I can’t customize Opera’s chrome the way I can with Firefox (you can only go so far with User JavaScript and widgets) - it would easily become my default browser (and not just the browser I test advanced features in). Anyway, those guys at Opera have released a development build of Opera 9.5 that supports video in the browser. This is a big step forward for the open web. Click To Read More...

I found Chad Vader last night and finished watching the series this morning. This is not your typical YouTube video, the production value is pretty high. Apparently they are compiling the series onto a DVD while planning for “Season 2″. Each video is about 5 minutes long. Here are the links in recommended watching order:

Chad Vader Season 1

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Episode 7
• Episode 8

Chad Vader Video Blogs

• Vlog 1
• Vlog 2
• Vlog 3
• Vlog 4

Chad Vader Music Video

• “Chocolate Rain” Video

I like how the last episode of Season 1 and the video blogs set up the major plots for Season 2. I’m looking forward to it!

I’m pretty happy with the performance of the Opera 9.5 Alpha 1 preview (Codename “Kestrel” - download here). So happy that I decided to finally try and figure out how to make a screencast today. Click To Read More...

Go Vote For Your Favourite Music Video.

Caught a whiff of this from Robert Scoble. Go watch some vloggers in a contest to make a music video and then vote for your favourites (each IP address is allowed 2 votes). My favourites:

• Irina’s Deathmatch Rap
• “Video Killed The Radio Star” spoof
• “Ironic” spoof
• “Anarchy In The Uk”
• Stepcats

And if you’re one of those who aren’t sure what a “video blog” is supposed to be or do, go watch this awesomeness and tell me you aren’t fired up about it by the end…

Here are a bunch of quick blurbs I thought might be of interest. Click To Read More...

My real barrier here is time, there’s just not enough of it to do all the research and all the fiddling that I want to do. So I’m hoping some stray MythTV guru will happen upon this blog entry and solve my problems for me. Click To Read More...