What is it?
If you think VideoEgg is just another new addition to the whole online video hosting service bandwagon (YouTube, Google Video etc.), think twice !! VideoEgg has tackled the long standing problem of “getting the video off your camera & uploading it to a site” and provided an extremely easy solution for it.
Instead of sifting through a maze of applications supporting a wide variety of obscure video formats / codecs to achieve the above-mentioned task, VideoEgg provides you with a simple 3 step approach to sharing your video with the rest of the world. For this you need to install a small 3MB package called VideoEggPublisher, which you can download from their site once you’ve signed up with them. Once installed this tool will run right inside your browser and allow you to…
- Grab the video directly from your DV camera / webcam onto your computer. Pre-existing video files can also be added by simply dragging the file and dropping it onto this application. It even supports addition of videos stored on mobile devices by simply mailing out to a pre-defined email address.
- Auto-encode the video in a format suitable for playing on web-sites (Flash Video) using the embedded VideoEgg player. Since the Flash plug-in is installed in almost any given browser, none of your visitors should have a problem viewing your videos.
- Click the Upload button to add it to your online video library at VideoEgg and get the HTML / JavaScript code to display it at your site.All this is done using a transparent process that’s extremely easy for even beginners to grasp. Their interface very minimalistic and has the exact tools / options required to perform these tasks - no more, no less.
Features
All videos you upload are automatically added to a folder called My Library on their server. Before you add the video to your personal library, you’re given the option to add a Title and a Description to it. You can also make the video publicly accessible by clicking a checkbox. While this feature isn’t fully functional now, in future versions of the VideoEgg website, you’ll be able to share the movies in your VideoEgg library with friends and family through our site by checking this. Private videos will be viewable only by you.
As of now, VideoEgg support uploading / addition of your video directly (without human intervention) to sites / blogs based on Blogger and TypePad as well as on eBay by simply entering your login details to these sites. For other blogs / sites, they provide you with a HTML or JavaScript code that can be placed in your pages to display the video. Here’s an example of the HTML code placement…
Since the video is hosted on the VideoEgg server - displaying it on your site won’t eat up your monthly bandwidth limit nor will it exhaust your allotted disk quota.
VideoEgg / VideoEggPublisher supports the following:
- OS-es: Windows 2000, ME, or Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.3.9+
- Browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 8.1+, Opera 9.0+, Safari 2.0
- Video Formats: 3gp, 3gp2, avi, dv, mpg, mpg4, mov, mqv, wmv, asf
Another cool feature is the ability to perform some basic editing on the video you upload with the Mark In/Out Tool. The ability to trim the start and end of the video without having to use a video editing package in itself is very cool.
A brief history
VideoEgg is the brainchild of three Yale graduates - David Lerman, Matt Sanchez and Kevin Sladek - who came up with this product during the early days of 2005 while trying to “crack the code on all things video (codecs, drivers and devices…)“.
They further added that…
After a few projects sifting through hundreds of uploaded video files in just about a million obscure formats it became clear that man, this video stuff was hard. With all of the different devices, editors, encoders, and players, there really wasn’t a simple, foolproof way for people to get video on to the web. They all agreed that posting video should be as easy as uploading a photo, so they set out to design and build the VideoEgg Publisher which launched at DEMOFall in 2005.
Conclusion
The whole VideoEgg experience is very smooth, and the results are very really good. This could prove to be an invaluable tool for any Video-Blogger or even for a normal blogger who wishes to keep visitors engaged by showing video clips.
You can sign up at VideoEgg for free and try it out yourself.
Max Steel said:
Wow, really cool portal. The video quality seems to be much better than the likes of youtube. By the way, who’s the dude with the fire sticks?
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Dunno - it’s some random Fire Poi spinning clip I’d got off the net
Komeddyk said:
Somebody using pheromons to attract women, whether is real it?
Where they can be got?
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Komeddyk: What’s VideoEgg got to do with pheromones ?
Jamesyboy200.....Dj Swisor said:
I jus wanna download video cuzz wen im on bebo they dont pop up!!! some one add me on msn rave_party1@hotmail.com plzz and help me….!!
please ppl thx
Top 31 free alternatives to YouTube (video hosting sites) at Chaos Laboratory said:
[...] VideoEgg features one of the slickest interfaces I’ve come across and offers a bag of really useful online video manipulation tools (cropping, resizing, direct recording etc.). Allows sharing through email, direct HTML embedding and Permalinks. The videos are displayed through their own interactive embeddable flash-based player. High-end sites with > 1 million visitors per month can sign-up for a revenue sharing partnership where ads are displayed beside each video and the revenue handed down to the partner. Employs content-filtering to weed out inappropriate videos. [...]
ememjammer said:
So I was off work and surfing and found this place and thought I would join up. I don’t have much more to say right now except I need to start reading some of the older posts to get up to speed before I can start posting.
Em
georgetui said:
Hello,
Great forum!
I found a lot of interesting information here.
Does this forum helpful for you also?
xztheericzx said:
i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!
eric
aABeckerkoo said:
Hello
Just stopping in to say hi to y’all as a new member.
Aaron
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
aABeckerkoo: A big hi to you too
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Update:Over the past few days, I’ve received a couple of mails from VideoEgg stating that they’re decommissioning the public video hosting service. The hosting service is already suspended… no further sign-ups are being allowed.
However, they’ve kept the servers open till the 31st of May, 2008 to allow all the members retrieve their videos. Here’s an excerpt from their mail..
Pity.. coz I kinda liked their service… the interface was real slick. Thing is they aren’t going out of business altogether… rather they’re just taking the video hosting service off-air.
They still got a couple of other goodies under the hood.. for example: Eggnetwork AdPlatform, which is an advertising platform that delivers rich-media (video) ads to your site and earns you revenue for displaying them. Looks cool and worth checking out…
Cheers,
m^e
Steve said:
With videoegg closing the webiste, they say it’s easy to download videos, but it does not work.
After waiting a month for a response it still does not work.
I guess my videos are lost forever, unless someone has a solution.
Tried removing the / in the link.
Did anyobdy say Rotten Egg?
Steve
Alan said:
Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.