HeyWatch API: vprofile and preset x264 options added

We just added two new x264 options to even more control your encoding quality:

vprofile: baseline, main, high, high10, high422, high444

preset: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo

You can see all the available x264 options here.

HeyWatch API: Rotation information available in video objects

The rotation information is now available in specs > video. 0 is default, can be 90, 180, 270

HeyWatch API: New Encoding Option: duration

This is the duration in second of the encoded video. It’s available in Job resource and Download resource as usual.

New Client Libraries for HeyWatch

We’ve released several client libraries in the last few days.

NodeJS, Java and iOS will come soon.

Note that the ruby lib is a complete rewrite of the old gem and it’s not compatible. Also this release is a bit special because the new gem provides a command line interface (CLI) to manage all your videos, jobs, etc… In other words everything on HeyWatch.

Usage: heywatch RESOURCE:METHOD [ID] [parameter1=value1 parameter2=value2 ...]

    Resources:

      account       # account information
      video         # manage video         | all, info, delete, count, bin            
      encoded_video # manage encoded video | all, info, delete, count, bin, jpg       
      download      # manage download      | all, info, delete, count, create         
      job           # manage job           | all, info, delete, count, create         
      format        # manage format        | all, info, delete, count, create, update 

    Usage:

      heywatch account
      heywatch video:info 123456
      heywatch job:all
      heywatch download:create url=http://site.com/video.mp4 title=mytitle
      heywatch encoded_video:jpg 9882322 start=4 > thumb.jpg
      heywatch format:all owner=true video_codec=h264
      heywatch video:all "[0]"
      heywatch job:all "[0..10]"
      heywatch format:count owner=true

Don’t hesitate to fork those libraries on github to improve / fix them. If you’ve wrote a lib yourself, please let us know so we can add it to the list.

Sandbox environment for HeyWatch

To simplify the development and the integration of our API in your projet we decided to drop the trial option (not very adequate) and replace it by a sandbox environment.

The sandbox environment is free of charge, the only constraint is that all the encoded videos will be shortened to 5 seconds. That’s it, the full API is available.

To change your environment, go to your account page.

 

Let us know what you think.

New Developers site for HeyWatch

We’ve totally updated the developers site which has its own domain now. We hope you’ll appreciate the new documentation: http://dev.heywatch.com

Let us know by twitter what you think.

YTProxy: a simple node proxy to download YouTube videos

As you may know, the transfer from YouTube to HeySpread feature is back. This is done thanks to a small nodejs script called YTProxy.

You can find the source on github, feel free to use it / fork it.

Source: github.com

YouTube upload is back on HeySpread

After almost 9 months without this cool feature, we’ve decided it was time to enable it again thanks to some proxy stuff.

If it goes well, we’ll bring back YouClone too.

Source: heyspread.com

HeyWatch API: new encoding option to rotate videos

Use transpose=0,1,2,3.

Value can be 0 (90CounterCLockwise and Vertical Flip (default)), 1 (90Clockwise), 2 (90CounterClockwise), 3 (90Clockwise and Vertical Flip). Note that we automatically use transpose for iPhone videos taken in portrait mode.

Note that we automatically rotate iPhone videos taken in portrait mode now.

Source: wiki.heywatch.com

Upload videos to your Facebook Page with HeySpread

That was a long awaited feature! Now upload your videos to your Facebook Page with HeySpread.

The username is special because you have to give the page ID after the usual email. The form must be “email:pageID”.

To find the page ID, go to your facebook page and take the numbers at the end of the URL:

Source: heyspread.com