The Streaming Blog

The team from Academic Technology at Oregon State University will be making TWO presentations at the CCUMC Annual Conference this year. (It helps that the conference is in Portland this year!) CCUMC is the Consortium of College and University Media Centers. This year’s conference, dubbed “Techlandia”, will be held at the Hilton Portland and Executive […]

Lois Brooks, OSU’s Vice Provost for Information Services, and I have just returned from Kaltura’s annual conference. Kaltura, the market leader in online video platforms for education and the provider of our MediaSpace system, invited us both to speak at their conference. I’m a frequent attendee of this conference and it was astounding to see […]

We held a webinar today in conjunction with TAC where we demonstrated the new functionality of MediaSpace 5.0. If you missed it, the webinar was recorded and you can watch it here.

ReelSEO.com is reporting on how YouTube has started testing a responsive video player. In the world of web, “responsive” means components of a web page that resize with your browser. So a bigger browser would have a bigger video window and a smaller browser would resize accordingly. I just wanted to point out that the […]

We’re optimistic about a Spring Break launch for MediaSpace 5.0. It comes with a host of new features including a new mobile friendly design, HTML5-first player, the ability to download your own media, rich text in the entry descriptions, unlisted videos (the good ol’ “private” function is back!), a non-Flash uploader, HTTPS security, audio- and […]

I missed this back when it happened, but I noticed it earlier this week when doing some testing. H.264 video has finally come to Firefox. GigaOm reported on this back in October. It looks like the Mozilla Foundation finally bit the bullet, with some considerable prompting from Cisco. Without getting too much into the nuts and […]

Hi and welcome to the first entry in the Video Streaming Blog @ OSU. I’m Raul Burriel, the streaming media coordinator at Oregon State University. I work in the Academic Technologies division of Information Systems. Specifically, I work in the Media Services branch and my job is to help get your videos – and audio […]