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Nothing Like a Good Con
There is nothing like a good con on someone who wants to believe.
That would be me. November 11, scanning for a suitable YouTube video for the show, surfed across the video from Infinite Solutions on adapting YouTube videos for the Video iPod.
My first excuse is that I don’t own a video iPod. That’s poor leverage, though. I should have been paying attention, as at some level I knew that the YouTube Video segments were Flash based and that the video iPod required mpeg based files.
I even had tried one of the transcoding sites that would allow you to transform mpeg based files into Flash video, and vice versa.
But I sure did not have any critical thinking skills on display when I picked the episode.
I think that I did meet the mission of SDR YouTube- to find videos on YouTube that would be of interest to SDRNews listeners. Just that I would like to have them full of non-BS content.
Thanks to the Thomas Couey, who called me out:
I’m sure someone’s let you know by now, but InfiniteSolutions (the source of the YouTube video for 11-11) is a joke organization, sort of like The Onion. They produce videos that are basically “practical joke†videos designed to trick people into believing ridiculous things. YouTube video is stored in a flash video format (.flv) the iPod does not support this format, nor will it transcode from it. The iPod uses MPEG-4 or H.264 compression primarily. Anyway, I’ve seen some web sites that will transcode YouTube videos to mpeg-4 for you, but they usually get shut down by YouTube for copyright infringement. It’s also very time consuming.
. . .
It seems like you’re an engineer of some sort, but if you have any kind of electrical engineering background, you should be able to tell that he’s just throwing out electrical jargon that makes no sense in context. He does a good job of making his B.S. sound convincing, but I assure you, all of his videos are jokes.
In any case, you may want to let everyone know that they’re not going to be able to podcast youtube videos in the way that he presents it.
I enjoy the podcast. Keep up the good work.
Thomas Couey
Here’s part of my reply..
Thomas -
I sure am embarrassed ! Thanks for the heads up. I have no excuse, other than the gullibility that surrounds topics that I am sort of familiar with but obviously not in sync with.
. . . my engineering background is in radio/wireless and fiber optic carrier equipment. web based video ? Not so much . . .I had seen the flv to mp4 sites maybe six months ago but since I don’t have a video ipod had not had any need for the service.
Glad you are enjoying the show.. Thanks for the note.
Andy
The video I selected today – I would have picked up on.. I’m sure of it.
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