Hi everybody!
You haven’t heard from me for some time just because I was busy working on new features of Bubblecast service.Now we present:
Youtube support
Now you can enter Youtube video link and get it in the blog like it was uploaded to Bubblecast. Here is the sample Youtube clip
Here how it looks like:
You just paste a Youtube link and click Ok
Sidebar widget for recent videos
We created sidebar widget which you can use to show recent posts with Bubblecast videos. If you go to Admin Console -> Appearance -> Widgets and drop the widget to your sidebar, it will show the most recent video posts from the category you define in widget configuration. The widget can show posts from multiple categories, either vertically or horizontally if your theme supports horizontal toolbars. You also define how many videos should appear in the widget.
Italian and Dutch language support
You can now have Quickcast Flash Player in Italian and Dutch. Italian translation is kindly provided by our Italian partner – Marco Forconi – http://marcoforconi.com . Dutch translation is done by our partner in Netherlands Jacob Schipper – http://mkbweb.nl
Rewinding in Quickcast player
We enabled rewinding in the player, you can now rewind forward and back. The pieces of video being downloaded are cached on your computer and thus save your bandwidth if you play the video once again.
Video playback performance improvement
We made some improvements on the server side of the Bubblecast to improve playback performance of the video clips.
Optimizations for screencasts
Screencasts are videos created from your computer’s screen. For example you want to show the users of your website how to use your service. You make screencasts with special software, like Camstudio or Camtasia, you just start the recording, open the browser, go to your website, show the users what features it has and comment your moves to the speakerphone.
Screencasts usually have high resolution, like 1440 x 900 because the whole computer’s screen is captured. When you play a screencast in Quickcast player, you should switch to Full Screen mode by clicking the button in the bottom right of the player.
There is also some special processing of such videos in Bubblecast to get the best playback quality.
Upgrade your Wordpress plugin
Please, upgrade your Bubblecast Video plugin for Wordpress from the repository to get all these features: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bubblecast-video-plugin.1.1.zip
