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Friday, 13 March 2015
SublimeVideo’s Cloud-Based HTML5 Player Goes Freemium
Jilion, the makers of the cloud-based HTML5 video player SublimeVideo,
are today making the product more accessible through the introduction
of a freemium offering. When the service launched earlier this spring,
commercial plans were available, starting at the relatively affordable
rate of under $10 per month. But when it comes to user adoption, nothing
beats “free.”
For those unfamiliar with the service, SublimeVideo offers
a plugin-free Web player that uses HTML5 to display embedded videos
publishers want to host online. When a user visits a site using an
unsupported browser, the player provides a “fall back to Flash” mode
that will play the video using Adobe Flash technology instead. When it launched commercially in March, the company admitted that it
had struggled with its pricing plans, eventually settling on charging by
volume as opposed to feature set.
Today, that model has shifted a bit. All users will now have access to SublimeVideo’s new real-time video statistics platform which supports complete usage statistics for all platforms, including desktop, mobile, HTML5 and Flash. However, the level of access to that data will depend on the plan.
The statistics are being made available through an online dashboard that shows a breakdown of video trends by the minute, hour, 24 hours, month and year. The live overview also offers details on all of a website’s videos, not just the per-video stats.
Free users will only have access to these stats for the past 24
hours. On the Plus plan (now up to 200K plays/month), the statistics are
retained for a year, while Premium plan (1M plays/month) customers will
have access to unlimited data retention.
Meanwhile, for enterprise users, custom integration of the SublimeVideo player and cloud technologies is also available.
According to Jilion Co-founder Zeno Crivelli, the company saw over
10,000 sign-ups during its 6-month beta period, and a “good fraction” of
those users converted to paid customers. However, Crivelli will not
reveal the current number of paying customers or what companies and
publishers are using the service. He does note that about half of
SublimeVideo’s users are coming from the U.S.
Clearly, the rollout of the freemium offering is meant to encourage
more users to test out the service, and, if they find it useful, convert
to upgraded plans. It may be a successful strategy. Although Jilion
certainly isn’t the only video platform to offer an embeddable player
that can intelligently switch between HTML5 and Flash, many of its
competitors go the “free trial” route, not the “freemium” one. For
example, there are currently similar solutions from companies
like Brightcove, Ooyala, Kaltura and Yokto (to name just a few) on the market, but it’s free trials all around, not free service. That said, many of these established players offer a more robust feature set than what Jilion has made available today.
To date, Jilion has raised $800,000 in seed funding from angels,
family and friends. It also had consulting revenues to help out during
the course of 2010, but those have stopped as the company focuses on
building SublimeVideo. Crivelli say Jilion plans to raise a $2-$4
million Series A in early 2012.
Some Times this Type of USB Drive Can BOOM A Computer !
Do not ever use a random USB flash drive. There are plenty of software exploits that can ruin your computer or life. And with this flash drive,
it can physically destroy your computer by blasting a load of voltage
to the USB controller with negative voltage. Think Wile E. Coyote and an
ACME Human Cannon. BOOM!
The basic idea of the USB drive is quite simple. When we connect it up
to the USB port, an inverting DC/DC converter runs and charges
capacitors to -110V. When the voltage is reached, the DC/DC is switched
off. At the same time, the filed transistor opens. It is used to apply
the -110V to signal lines of the USB interface. When the voltage on
capacitors increases to -7V, the transistor closes and the DC/DC starts.
The loop runs till everything possible is broken down. Those familiar
with the electronics have already guessed why we use negative voltage
here. I‘ll explain to others that negative voltage is easier to
commutate, as we need the N-channel field resistor, which, unlike the
P-channel one, can have larger current for the same dimensions.
Put simply, the bits inside the USB drive draws and stores a ton of
power. When a certain level is hit, it returns the power to the source,
which is either a dedicated USB controller or the CPU itself. This is
bad news bears. The amount of power returned overloads the circuits,
rendering it useless. Since a lot of USB controllers are built directly
into the main processor… bye bye computer.
Scary. Thankfully the creator hasn’t released the schematic for the drive.
There are enough USB exploits
floating around to warrant caution. Some will unknowingly install
malware or backdoor software, and now, there is at least one, that will
actually destroy your computer.
YouTube Now Lets You to Upload 360-Degree Video
Immersive video is now accessible to just about anyone, both on the creator and audience side. Google just turned on 360-degree video uploads for YouTube creators, letting anyone who can film the immersive footage using something like the Bublcam or Ricoh Theta the ability to put their creations on YouTube, where they can be viewed in the YouTube for Android app or in Chrome (with iPhone and iPad support coming soon). The best way to watch these is probably with Cardboard or something equivalent for now, but with the rapid growth of OEM interest in virtual reality and other immersive viewing headsets, this YouTube update paves the way for a future in which we watch from inside the online movie.
The process is a little clunky at the moment, with a requirement that you run a Python script to ensure the correct metadata is applied to your video file to get YouTube to recognize the upload as a 360-degree clip, but YouTube says it’s working on automating that part of the process so that likely won’t apply for long.
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