Youtube woes: Is the default view 'normal view' for the SD videos better than the HD videos? Absolutely, yes!

ABSOLUTELY, YES!!
Does the YouTube default view 'normal quality' of the HD video looks even worse than the default 'normal quality' of the SD vids? Check out the embedded vids below and decide which of the two LOW res default views is best. Of course forcing the high quality or HD views is the best option:
High Quality: Here is the link to the HIGH QUALITY view on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRbG_GC3GgQ&fmt=18
HD 720p: Here is the link to the actual HD view on YouTube and not the low resolution default view of the HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-76ESWqUMvw&fmt=22

So here is the DEFAULT 'normal view' embed code from the YouTube Site: this is SD 640x480 video displayed in the LOW RESOLUTION as seen on YouTube:



Of course, we can get around this by adding the following code to the end of the URL in the param name and the src in the YouTube embed code: &ap=%2526fmt%3D18
YouTube should offer us the default and the high quality code... yes, we like it when it's easy!

Using the DEFAULT 'normal view' embed code from the YouTube site: THIS ONE is the HD720p video

Give me the Embed Code Generator for High Quality YouTube Embeds....

Using Rupert Howe's Embed Code Generator for High Quality YouTube Videos instead of adding the code: &ap=%2526fmt%3D18
http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html
See Rupert's site:
http://twittervlog.tv

Of course, I could have just added the code easier than &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 at the end of the URL for the param name and the embed source...




Honestly, this doesn't look like the high quality view... going to check the youtube forums to see if people are having issues with this.

Super Kaleidoscopium with Thoth Jentzen in Second Life:

Super Kaleidoscopium with Thoth Jentzen, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

My absolute favourite place and experience in SL is Thoth's mega-media environment where YouTube vids could take honours for performance... dancing over objects and phantom spaces. "Have you walked through the forest...?" It's a walk through the technocultural wilds of an artist's mind... the forgiving phantom canvas of the forest dance. I think I'll stand a while as part of the hologram that permeates my digital and physical being. I'm still standing... with the 300 meters of media playing above in the phallec theatre of Beau Longement, a media experience that knows no comparison in any world.

In Second Life® getting ready for the UC Davis Health Informatics 3rd Annual Conference

UC Davis Health Informataics 3rd Annual Conference, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

On Davis Island getting ready for the May 7th conference at UCDMC, Sacramento http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cme/conferences/pdfs/Lecture_Descriptions.pdf
Registration: https://chtapps.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/servlet/CmeSignIn?ccode=MEDINF9

Choreography & Bovines in a virtual world

Here we are: four of us holding tight and ready for another group shot. Though, we'll need some fancy camera work to get us looking into eagle's lens.
Like a fluid roundhouse kick with the mouse moving left across the sky. Hold those smiles and think of Port Reyes Blue...

on location with Think Mapp, HVX Silverstar and the Bovines of UC Davis.... above Machinima Institute trying to make a commercial.

So who is behind the super cool animated sculpty bovines? Jon Haskall is the creator whose work can be found at:


Place: Sculpty Creations Animals
Region: Extrem Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Extrem%20Island/176/52/26Highly textured realistic low prim low cost Sculpted prim Animals from all over the world, African, Australian, American, Asian, European.
Owned by: Sculpty Creatures (group)

Thoth's 'blow-me-away kaleidoscope' media experience in Second Life ®

Teleport to Thoth Jentzen's Kaleidoscopium to be blown away. Grab a chair, lay back and be prepared to truly enjoy a YouTube vid or playlist. You'll feel like you've fallen into an audio/vido kaleidoscope.
Watch the vid in HD: http://youtube.com/v/1SzXjdi2Y54&fmt=22

Thoth Jentzen's pure magical media experience... can't wait to log back in and lay back watching my YouTube playlist... go, Thoth!

Annotations Editor on YouTube: annoy me no more by default

Annotations Editor on YouTube, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

I love the annotations feature but sure wish that it would not be turned ON by default.
Many people have complained and have suggested or begged that it be added as a setting in the account settings. Yes, pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassse turn it OFF by default and add, better still, add it to the account settings.
I prefer to use the old access features via the edit button | Annotations tab. This was just fine!
I would like to have a public or group annotations feature allowing people to overlay comments.. hahahah could get messy.
I'd like something like the old Mojiti that was leagues ahead of its time.
Watch video and view annotations by moving cursor over video:
HD 720p version (requires latest Flash plugin and a fast connection): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCZkJqu7Ns&fmt=22
or High quality version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCZkJqu7Ns&fmt=18