19th March 2008 Reply

Hey Travel Bugs,

We have recently received some disappointing news from our partner and video service provider - VideoEgg (www.videoegg.com). Please see their email below:

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Dear VideoEgg Partner:

This email is formal notice that we are terminating our contract with you to use the VideoEgg Publisher and Player, effective May 31, 2008.

Please be assured that, until May 31, 2008, all videos uploaded to our servers using the VideoEgg Publisher will be available for playback on your site.

Thank you for your participation and for your support of VideoEgg.

It’s been a pleasure working with you.

Best regards,

Videoegg staff
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This has not just been cancelled for us, but for all of their other networks as well, as they have decided to develop their business in other ways.

We are currently investigating what other options we have, however at the moment it seems appropriate to revert back to allowing you to insert YouTube videos directly into your blogs (as we can't see YouTube disappearing anytime fast).

If you have any thoughts or ideas you'd like to share with us, we're open to suggestions.

Happy travels,

Travel Bug.

28th March 2008 Reply

Hi

I am worried about my vidoes I have already got uploaded and am scared im going to loss them, as i have already deleted them off my camra and am now trying to upload to youtube but it seems almost impossable as I have been trying to upload one video now for nearly 45min and it still hasn't uploaded i tried the other day to and i had no joy can you please let me no what to do as some of my videos are priceless and dont wan to loss them

Thankyou
Sarah

28th March 2008 Reply

Hey Sarah,

I can understand your concern. Videoegg have told us that it is possible to get the videos from them, so in the next week we will chase them up to see what the process is there.

In regards to Youtube - I suggest you consult their help section as to why you may be experiencing problems uploading.

Happy travels

15th April 2008 Reply

Okay guys, I heard back from Videoegg about how to save your videos (and they recommended a program which you need to have a Computer engineering degree to know how to use!). I have done some testing and found one that does work well (but still takes a bit of effort).

Download the Flash version of your Video from your blogs
1. Navigate to the player video page (example here)

2. Open the HTML source for the page in your browser (in Firefox, click View->Page Source; in IE, click View->Source)

3. Search (CTRL + F on your keyboard) for the word "selfserve300".

4. Following this, you’ll see a partial URL that resembles this: selfserve300.download.videoegg.com/gid388/cid1372/IH/E8/1177680166PpV97bTCyG03nSP6PCAT. Copy and paste this URL into your browser, adding “_high.flv” to the end. (so will look like click here)

5. Refresh your browser (F5 on keyboard), which should cause a download dialog box to appear. Save the file to your drive.

6. The file that has saved is a Flash version of your video and cannot easily be played in this format, and needs to be converted.

Converting Flash Video to MPG

1. Go to http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html and scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the link "Start Downloading SUPER ©".

2. On next page click on the blue link 'Download and use'

3. On next page, scroll to very bottom again and click on blue link 'Download SUPER © setup file', then save the file to your PC.

4. Install the program (when you start it for the first time, it may warn you that your PC is not powerful enough to handle it, but ignore this and continue)

5. The interface is quite complex, but there are only a few things you need to look at:
- Select the Output (default is MP4, which I recommend you leave)
- Video scale size - change option to 'No Change'
- Just below halfway on the right side, you'll see red arrows - right click on this and select 'Output File Saving Management' to select the folder you want the outputted file to save to.

6. Now just drag and drop the files (you can do multiple, so I suggest you test with 1 first, then just drag all the files you want converted and do it at once to save you time) into the space on the program that says 'DROP A VALID MULTIMEDIA FILE HERE'

7. Press the 'Encode (Active Files)' button at the bottom to convert it.

8. Take a breath and and pat yourself on the back for making it this far!

Any questions let me know here...

Happy travels!

14th May 2008 Reply

How do I put a youtube video on my travel blog? Is this option avaliable to us to use since VideoEgg is no longer working?

15th May 2008 Reply

Hey SkipNZ,

The best way is to simply paste the Youtube web link into your blog text, so that people can click through to view your videos.

We may look into a way of embedding the Youtube videos directly into your blog pages, so that they show in a similar way to the Videoegg ones now.

We'll keep you posted.

Happy travels!

11th July 2008 Reply

I personally think it would be cool to have the the video service with YouTube.. that way all our photos and videos are stored in the same place

2nd August 2008 Reply

Hi

Has there been any progress on getting the youtube videos embedded into the travel blogs? Having the videos in the blog was the best feature of your website over others, and now this has gone.

2nd August 2008 Reply

Hey,

At this stage it has been on the back burner because there has only been just a couple of users mentioning this. If we get more users supporting this we would definitely look into it more.

But until we see this happening it's hard to justify it.

In the meantime I would suggest that you use YouTube because IF we did add this feature we would only use a company of this size .

Anyone else agree with Skipnz?

9th August 2008 Reply

I dont think very many people are going to reply to this thread because this forum is so hard to find. I cant find it through the bugbitten website. I have to go to the email you sent in May to click on the link to come here.
I just see a website like this to have so much potential, video embedding was the draw card that made me choose this site over the others. I'm sure lots of other users would feel the same way, and would voice this if they knew that it was a possibility.
Thanks