Recently, Google's Blogger added the ability to upload video. While the video is uploaded you can continue working on your blogpost. Neat.
Here is the result:
This is a screenshot of how the post appears in Google Reader:
Also in Netvibes, the video appears (but twice ;-)).
This is the code generated (with long encoded URL's edited out):
<object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class"
id="BLOG_video-c97b748c29cea499"
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=LONGVIDEOURL&nogvlm=1&thumbnailUrl=LONGTHUMBURL">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<embed width="320" height="266"
src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=LONGVIDEOURL
&nogvlm=1&thumbnailUrl=LONGTHUMBURL&
messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>
</object>
<a href="rtsp://rtsp-youtube.l.google.com/video.3gp?fmt=13&cid=c97b748c29cea499" type="video/3gpp">
<img width="320" height="266" alt="video"
src="http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app=blogger&contentid=c97b748c29cea499
&offsetms=5000&itag=w320&sigh=f52nsu-i5tuyLzJ7tEY1Q8a5Y2M"
class="BLOG_mobile_video_class" id="BLOG_mobile_video-c97b748c29cea499">
</a>
So if the Flash object can not be rendered, at least a link to a RTSP server with a 3GPP video is presented. The latter is probably the case on mobile browsers (Iphone?). The movie size is 320x266. Probably this corresponts to a default 4:3 aspect ratio and 320x240 pixels video surface. So there are 26 lines at the bottom for the controls. So if the the original footage has 16:9 format, black borders are added automatically so that aspect ratio is maintained.
Conclusion: Google Blogger upload works well, uploading goes fast and allows continuing editing while uploading goes on. Nicely done!
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