Vox Tip: Video Help
We all know that there's tons of good stuff to be found on YouTube via Vox's conduit, but it can sometimes be confusing and even difficult to find the specific video you want. This is usually because searching for video on YouTube's site differs slightly than searching via our conduit. The former searches all of the meta data for a video, where the latter only searches tags.
For instance, I may be looking for a video of Elvis Costello singing "Oliver's Army". On YouTube's site, I may type in "Elvis Costello" and among the results find what I was looking for. However, if that video only happens to be tagged as "Oliver's Army" (or, more likely, "Oliver's" AND "Army"), then I won't find it in the Vox conduit by searching for "Elvis Costello". If you're having trouble finding the video you want, go over to YouTube's site and find it with a search there. Then, look at the tags on it, and go enter those in to the Vox conduit. If that specific set of tags isn't very common, then your desired video should be in the results.
You can also
drop the YouTube username in to the search in the YouTube
conduit. So, if the video you want
is tagged "bush" and the user is say, "stevec", then you can put "bush
stevec" in the search. It will return videos by user "stevec" that are
tagged "bush". Or, I suppose it would also find any videos that are
tagged "bush" as well as "stevec", but those would probably be pretty
few.
Another popular video site is Google Video.
Sometimes, you'll find a video there that isn't on YouTube, but you'd
still like to share it with Vox. Not a problem. Most videos on Google
Video can be downloaded. Simply download the version for iPod Video (it
should come down as an MP4) and upload that to Vox. Our vast team of
highly trained hamsters (and some gerbils) will quickly do the work of
converting it to a playable format and you'll soon be able to embed it
in your posts directly from your library.
There is a lot more information on uploading and managing videos in this article in our Knowledge Base.
-- Steve
Comments
thanks
not angry.. just frustrated.
This Vox Tip makes me sad because since it is on the official Team Vox site ... it looks like Vox is not going to fix this.
There is not even an easy way to tell what vid is what when you do a search, for example, weird al released an official copy of one of his music videos. He linked to it, but there are like 4 copied of it on youtube and not all of them are the same. Currently, the process is to add each one, follow the links, then if it is not the one you wanted delete it. Repeat until you only have the one you want.
This is not user friendly, or "mother friendly" (i think that is the term the spokesman used on an ITN interview).
I am also rather frustrated. I really hope that you'll decide to open this up for us users :)
vox + html editing = better
What also happens is that a lot of my files just aren't being uploaded into vox at all. movie files that are over 2 minutes long and such.
Please advise.
As for my own raw files not being able to be uploaded because of perhaps the size, I'll just do the whole through-GV thing even though it takes days for GV to approve the videos for viewing. S'all good. :)