Particles http://particle-s.com Gathering to create Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en particleshttp://feedburner.google.com Justin.tv uses HeySpread to mass-distribute videos. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/particles/~3/wHkXhb6y180/ http://particle-s.com/2009/10/21/justintv-uses-heyspread-to-mass-distribute-videos/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:37 +0000 Eric Fontaine http://particle-s.com/?p=155 Hi People,

If you are a live video lovers, you already are a member of Justin.tv. Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With 40 million unique visitors per month and over 500,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world.

After the Live, each video is recorded as episodes. Justin.tv integrates HeySpread to allow its own users to mass-distribute these episodes over the trendiest video portals and social networks we support. The implementation is done thanks to our REST API. With this features, we help Justin.tv’s users to viralize their content and make it even more popular on the Web.

]]> http://particle-s.com/2009/10/21/justintv-uses-heyspread-to-mass-distribute-videos/feed/ http://particle-s.com/2009/10/21/justintv-uses-heyspread-to-mass-distribute-videos/ Kickapps partners with HeyWatch for Video Encoding. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/particles/~3/Qdk6xqmM2Is/ http://particle-s.com/2009/10/12/kickapps-partners-with-heywatch-for-video-encoding/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:54:15 +0000 Eric Fontaine http://particle-s.com/?p=131 Hi People,

If you need a white label social network platform, you already know Kickapps for sure. KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable them to create and manage next generation web experiences that are social, interactive, dynamic, distributed, and data-informed. KickApps solutions consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites and brands to grow & engage their online audiences and foster deeper relationships with customers.

KickApps clients include HBO, CW Television Network, National Geographic, Guinness World Records, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, the Special Olympics and numerous professional sports teams around the world such as the San Francisco 49ers or even the Phoenix Suns.

Kickapps chose HeyWatch to externalize all its heavy video encoding processes. They started having their internal encoding solution. But quickly, they realized that it was too difficult to maintain and so, so expensive. Thus, they decided to contact Pros. Now, they have the Highest Video Quality and they save Money thanks to HeyWatch.

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So, we decided to give you a way to know what are the sites we currently support via this simple API call: GET /sites. You also get other interesting information like the registration link, the favicon and the video size limit.

You can have a look at the documentation here.

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If you are a Twitter fan and a video addict, you will love TwitVid for sure. TwitVid lets you share videos on Twitter. Simple but so great. You can share your video from the site itself using the uploader, a dead simple API, your mobile via Email or MMS. And also via a your Webcam.

You can get your TwitVid Widget and show your latest TwitVids on your blog or site.

Besides, great addictive features are coming soon such as Realtime uploads. With Realtime uploads your followers will be able to watch the video as it’s uploading.

TwitVid uses HeyWatch to convert videos in the highest quality for their users.

By the way, the TwitVid team is currently integrating HeySpread to allow their users to automatically upload their videos to YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and others.

TwitVid is the next so promising Twitter service. You will be addict.

]]> http://particle-s.com/2009/05/26/twitvid-uses-both-heywatch-and-heyspread/feed/ http://particle-s.com/2009/05/26/twitvid-uses-both-heywatch-and-heyspread/ All the X264 options are now available via the Hey!Watch API http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/particles/~3/EMeggIx5t04/ http://particle-s.com/2009/05/14/all-the-x264-options-are-now-available-via-the-heywatch-api/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 09:36:54 +0000 Bruno Celeste http://particle-s.com/?p=184 Some of our customers wanted to have full control over the H264 settings because our default ones don’t fit their needs. It’s okay and this is why we decided to bring you all the X264 options (only via API for now).

Add the “x264_options” parameter to your job / download request and you’re ready to go. The form must be:

x264_options=param1:value1,param2:value2,...

See the full documentation here.

We need to warn you: don’t use this option if you don’t know what you’re doing. The default settings we’re using should just be fine for most of you.

Here are the full list of available parameters (ffmpeg names not the x264 ones):

Parameter type Values
g integer
keyint_min integer
sc_threashold integer
bf integer 0 to 16
b_strategy integer 0, 1, 2
bframebias integer 0
flags2 string +bpyramid, +wpred, +mixed_refs, +dct8×8
coder integer 0, 1
refs integer 0 to 16
flags string -loop, +loop, -fastskip
deblockalpha integer
deblockbeta integer
cqp integer
crf float
qdiff integer
i_qfactor float
b_qfactor float
chromaoffset integer
qcomp float
complexityblur float
qblur float
partitions string +partp8×8, +partp4×4, +partb8×8, +parti8×8, +parti4×4
directpred integer
me_method string epzs, hex, umh, full
me_range integer
subq integer 1 to 9
trellis integer 0, 1, 2
level integer 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42, 50, 51

We strongly advise you to read these sites before starting:

This is a beta feature, so we don’t charge more credits for now, and of course we’d love to hear your feedbacks via Twitter or via email.

Hope you enjoy.

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If you are a photo lover, you obviously know Fotolia. Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations.

But after Photos, Fotolia has just launched its video offering. Fotolia is launching with 10,000 royalty free video clips that can be used in video ads, on Websites, mobile animations, and more.

And to deliver the Hightest Video Quality over the World, they partner with HeyWatch. They externalize all their video encoding processes with us. We transcode their videos in 6 different formats to fit all needs: Small Web Video, Big Web, NTSC Video, PAL Video, HD 720, HD 1080.

Why they chose HeyWatch? Simple integration via a REST API, Powerful CPU, Fast & Real-Time Encoding, Dedicated Video Format Creation, 2-Pass, and Money Savings!

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If you are familiar with big events in the World, you may know Lift Conference for sure. Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.

This year LIFT’09 will take place in Marseille, France, on June 18,19 and 20 with an ambitious and optimistic purpose: “Hands-On Future“. A future where we are all actors of change.

So, we are very proud to be the first partner of the brand new video department of LIFT. HeySpread will power the video activity by mass-uploading and tracking all the video assets from LIFT over the 15 trendiest video sharing platforms.

Thanks to all the Team and especially to Laurent Haug who is the founder and CEO of the Lift Conference.

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Many of you asked to bring Myspace back. It’s now done.

]]> http://particle-s.com/2009/04/24/myspace-video-is-back/feed/ http://particle-s.com/2009/04/24/myspace-video-is-back/ Scheduled Downtime for HeyWatch/HeySpread. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/particles/~3/-sys10ImlTo/ http://particle-s.com/2009/04/02/scheduled-downtime-for-heywatchheyspread/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54:09 +0000 Eric Fontaine http://particle-s.com/?p=102 Dear People,

We will experience a downtime for both HeyWatch and HeySpread, due to an electricity network improvement coming from our Web hosting provider.

This will take 1 hour max. But maybe far less.

Please, check your timezone below:
- April, Monday the 6 from 6pm to 7pm EST (USA)
- April, Monday the 6 from 3pm to 4pm PST (USA)
- April, Tuesday the 7 between midnight and 1am GMT+2 (Europe)

We are sorry for the inconvenience, even if it is not on our side.

Best regards,

Eric Fontaine.
VP Business.

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We have just created the product page for Particles on Facebook.
Become a Fan to be updated with all the new features. Besides, let us know what you would like to see on both HeyWatch and HeySpread. We want this page to be a new way to communicate.

Facebook | PARTICLES

See you on Facebook!

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