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JW Media Player -

April 6, 2009 by kevin · Leave a Comment 

JW Media Player

http://www.longtailvideo.com

  A flash based free media player that touts itself as the most popular player on the web.  We are using it at USU now for all of our online videos and we really like it.  It just works and has lowered our technical support issues with students.  It is flash based so students only need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed on their computer (and I bet they all do, but some may need to upgrade).  We love it because it supports closed captioning.

Visit the website for tutorials, information, and lots of examples on how to use it.  

Episode Desktop - Video Compression and Encoding Software

April 6, 2009 by kevin · Leave a Comment 

Episode Desktop Compression Software

Episode Desktop - Video Compression and Encoding Software

http://www.telestream.net/

Telestream is realitively new to the digital video market but they came in with a bang.  I was first introduced to them at EDUCAUSE when they partnered with Apple to show off their Episode Podcast plug-in for Apples Podcast Producer.

Episode Desktop is a compression and encoding software package that the pros use.  It is easy to use and comes with many presets.  With presests you can tweak them and create your own for the way you want things to work.  This is a fantastic tool, from a fantastic company, who makes a lot of other cool tools.

You might recognize the name from Flip for Mac.  Software for your Mac that allows you to play Windows Media files within Quicktime.

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