Particles

New HeySpread API resource: get the list of supported video sites

Bruno Celeste — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:49:53 +0000

As you may already notice, the list of video sites we support changed many times since the launch of HeySpread. The problem is that your application didn’t know the sites we add or remove.

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.

TwitVid uses both HeyWatch and HeySpread.

Eric Fontaine — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:47:55 +0000

Hi People,

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.

All the X264 options are now available via the Hey!Watch API

Bruno Celeste — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:36:54 +0000

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.

Fotolia partners with HeyWatch for Video Encoding.

Eric Fontaine — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:23:39 +0000

Hi People,

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!

LIFT partners with HeySpread to viralize official videos.

Eric Fontaine — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:20:06 +0000

Hi People,

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.

Myspace Video is back

Bruno Celeste — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:08:09 +0000

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

Scheduled Downtime for HeyWatch/HeySpread.

Eric Fontaine — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54:09 +0000

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.

Particles page on Facebook

Eric Fontaine — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:00:06 +0000

Hi People,

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.

See you on Facebook!

Hey!Spread integrates Seesmic for quick video recording

Bruno Celeste — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:57:11 +0000

Great feature today, you can now record yourself directly on HeySpread and send your video to the best platforms in just seconds. Just click on the Webcam link and you’re ready.

For now, all the videos you record belong to the same account “particles” on Seesmic.

Also, when you record a video using Adobe Flash, the audio codec is nellymoser which is not supported by the video platforms. So, you must use the convert option otherwise the video won’t be accepted at all. Note that the option is checked by default if you use the webcam source.

Amazon S3 Buckets located in Europe supported

Bruno Celeste — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:01:56 +0000

To upload a video to Amazon S3, we used the path-style URL like http://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with Buckets located in Europe because Amazon only allows virtual hosted URL like http://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com as explained in their documentation.

To access Amazon S3 buckets and objects that were created using CreateBucketConfiguration, you must use the virtual hosted-style request.

We finally fixed this, so our upload is compatible with EU Buckets. This forum discussion is now closed.