{"id":1832,"date":"2013-01-14T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2013-01-14T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:06:07","slug":"re-networked-video-in-10-years-networked-video-parseable-video-not-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2013\/01\/14\/re-networked-video-in-10-years-networked-video-parseable-video-not-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Re:  Networked Video in 10 Years : Networked Video == Parseable Video | Not sLop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting, I just got some comment spam on this post from January 2007:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2007\/02\/26\/networked-video-in-10-years-networked-video-parseable-video\/\">Networked Video in 10 Years : Networked Video == Parseable Video | Not sLop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, I describe the proceedings from a breakout group at that year&#8217;s Beyond Broadcast conference. \u00c2\u00a0My conclusion was that online video needs to be more than just video online, that it needs to be parseable (indexed and hyper-linkable and so on).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, for the most part, online video now, is pretty much the same as it was then. \u00c2\u00a0Typically it exists on a web server as a file, is embedded in a web page with a bit of textual information around it and that&#8217;s it. \u00c2\u00a0Not a lot of interactivity or time based meta-data as part of it. \u00c2\u00a0Certainly not parseable in the way described in the post. \u00c2\u00a0No easy way to link to specific content or to associate content on the page with any particular point in time in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, while that is still mostly the case, it isn&#8217;t always the case. \u00c2\u00a0The good folks at Mozilla have been working on an open source JavaScript library called <a href=\"http:\/\/popcornjs.org\/\">Popcorn.js<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that allows any time based media (audio\/video) to execute code, manipulate a page, display other content and so on. \u00c2\u00a0 They have even created a GUI interface so you don&#8217;t have to be a JavaScript programmer in order to take advantage. \u00c2\u00a0Nice!<\/p>\n<p>I spent last week, during\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/nyu.edu\/teach-yourself-javascript-not-by-yourself\/\">ITP&#8217;s Teach Yourself JavaScript Together<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0getting familiar with Popcorn and then gave a workshop that showed it (as part of an overall HTML5\/JavaScript media workshop). \u00c2\u00a0If you are interested, here is the talk (jump in a little more than 2 minutes): <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qe3ZZMfzBnM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qe3ZZMfzBnM&amp;list=HL1358193210\">YouTube Link<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/~sve204\/js_media\/\">notes\u00c2\u00a0are here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting, I just got some comment spam on this post from January 2007:\u00c2\u00a0Networked Video in 10 Years : Networked Video == Parseable Video | Not sLop. In the post, I describe the proceedings from a breakout group at that year&#8217;s Beyond Broadcast conference. \u00c2\u00a0My conclusion was that online video needs to be more than just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2013\/01\/14\/re-networked-video-in-10-years-networked-video-parseable-video-not-slop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Re:  Networked Video in 10 Years : Networked Video == Parseable Video | Not sLop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,41,12,13,42,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future","category-itp","category-related-to-this-site","category-streaming-and-multi-media","category-video","category-video-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}