MahTweets Dev Screencasts
Over on MahTweets.com, we’ve just launched the first developer preview screencast. The idea of these screencasts is to get feedback – positive or negative – from the community on features and changes which will help shape the direction MahTweets takes.
So far there is only the one video up, and its a bit long at 10minutes (~28meg), however this is likely to be the longest video as its a general overview of where we’re up to. We’ll upload smaller, more specific videos over the coming weeks.
If you all behave and are lucky, I may even upload some of the earlier videos of the prototypes.
We need to add more features to the screencast subsite, such as..
- Authenticated logins for comments
OpenID/FBConnect/Twitter OAuth – this will then carry over to when we launch a syncing service for MahTweets.
You’ll still have the semi-anonymous commenting system, but if you’re signed in and don’t erase the cookies, you don’t have to login for every comment. - HTML5 Video
Instead of just providing a Silverlight player, we’ll add the HTML5 Video tag for browsers that support it using H.264 (so, Chrome/Safari). If your browser doesn’t meet that, it’ll ‘downgrade’ to the Silverlight player.Why Silverlight over Flash? Silverlight player is a lot easier – the free Flash mp4 players I’ve tried in the past don’t stream, don’t scrub, and require watermarks/etc. Expression Encoder output the player for me, dead simple.
- Direct download link
A simple link to the source video file so you can download it directly. Currently if you’d like to download the screencast directly, just view source and find the ".mp4" file. - RSS feed
To keep up to date, duh
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