[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Don Tolson

Anyway, I'm getting 'buffering' messages every 10 secs or so, and it takes about as long again (about 10 secs) for it to get going again. Never saw this behaviour on the Youtube versions.

Thanks for reporting the test results. The buffering is a bandwidth problem, either on your end, or on their end - hard to say which. YouTube videos are usually in the 700 kbps range - the Motionbox videos I'm embedding are 1700 kbps, so they take quite a bit more bandwidth. Maybe someone was downloading something big on your network.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Don Tolson

Anyway, I'm getting 'buffering' messages every 10 secs or so, and it takes about as long again (about 10 secs) for it to get going again. Never saw this behaviour on the Youtube versions.

Thanks for reporting the test results. The buffering is a bandwidth problem, either on your end, or on their end - hard to say which. YouTube videos are usually in the 700 kbps range - the Motionbox videos I'm embedding are 1700 kbps, so they take quite a bit more bandwidth. Maybe someone was downloading something big on your network.

[wocket]

Plays great. Just watched the unboxing video of the Touch Pro on a Mac Pro using Safari. Quality fantastic and smooth playback.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

About two months ago, I purchased a Canon HF100 high-definition video camera to replace my ageing but still totally sweet Canon GL2 (that thing has such great optics!). It took me a while to re-create my template in 16:9 format, but I did and published my first two HD videos to YouTube...and I was quite disappointed with the results. YouTube only offers a 4:3 aspect ratio player, so 16:9 videos look pretty tiny with those big black bars on the top and bottom. I set out to find a better solution for embedding videos on Thoughts Media sites, and I think I've found one: MotionBox.

How's this for timing: YouTube Now in Widescreen

[ptyork]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

How's this for timing: YouTube Now in Widescreen

Beat me to it by 15 minutes!! Here a sample. Not bad. Click "watch in high quality"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5E7cIQDUwc

Supposedly they also support 720p in h.264.

[jgrnt1]

Unlike a few days ago, I had no issues today with either video. The quality is fantastic. It's disappointing that fullscreen doesn't work. With YouTube videos, fullscreen is terrible, but with the higher quality video, I bet it would look pretty darn good.

Edit: I took a look at the widescreen YouTube video in high quality. It's not bad. I don't think it's quite the quality of the Motionbox videos, but I don't know if you shot them at the same quality.

[gregh]

Jason,

I saw Motionbox restricting the embedded plays, could this explain some of the strange issues you've seen?

http://www.motionbox.com/content/help/premium-account

*Limitations on embedded plays: While Motionbox Premium membership is designed for personal use, we do have subscribers who use this service in a professional or hobbysit capacity. We encourage Premium members to post both SD and HD content on your blogs, profile pages, or websites, but this subscription does not include unlimited bandwidth. Premium members are entitled to 500 plays per video (up to 5000 total embedded plays) per month, regardless of quality (SD or HD)