Few days back I tried to paste some of my flash presentations from one of the community website (www.authorstream.com), which provides embed tags you can paste in your blogs. It didn’t work.

In spaces.live.com blog you can paste your video or flash embed tag using “Embed videos” at the bottom of message editor. I simply copied the code provided by the website and pasted it in pop up input box which I received after clicking on “Embed videos” button. When I clicked save button I received following error: “The embed code you've entered is not supported by Spaces. Only Flash video players are allowed.” After some analysis I came to know that spaces.live.com only allow embed code of the whole provided object code or auto generated flash embed code. So when I put flash embed code in the provided input box it just strip of the object part of the code and retain only embed part of the code. Now type value must be present in the embed code for it to be worked in spaces i.e. type="application/x-shockwave-flash" otherwise you will get above mentioned error. After I updated the code and put type in embed code it worked fine.

Here is a new feature from authorSTREAM.

Actually it's not a new feature; it's an extension or shall i say enhancement to the existing feature, which is used to convert a user's presentations (only specific presentations) to video and make them available to download as mp4 or for podcast.

Being in a developing country, the Internet speed is terrible sometimes or it's a bit costly compared to US and European countries (although the situation has changed in the last few months). So like everyone i also wanted that my content should be viewable/viewed by as many people around the world as it can be.

So if you have your content as video, everyone knows the authority of YouTube and the visibility it brings to your work. But downloading it from one website and then uploading it to another was a bit of a pain--both time-wise and cost-wise. So this new extension from authorSTREAM is a very nice offering, which solves some problems of people like me. You can directly transfer your content to YouTube and enjoy the publicity.

The presentation below by TechGuy describes how you can move your video content to YouTube directly from authorSTREAM.:
        


The above presentation as video on Youtube:
       

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