Send via Email, Soapbox, API improvements and Amazon S3
February 18, 2007 – 9:24 pmHi People,
Few changes today, we hope you’ll enjoy.
Upload video via email
Now, you can send and forward videos by email. You got an email from a friend, your family or even professional and you need to encode the attached video? Just forward it to us. You can put a title (optional) in the subject field. More, this is now more convenient to upload video via your mobile, it’s like MMS!
All you have to do is to choose an username in your account page and send the email to: your-choosen-name at upload.heywatch.com
Soapbox and Tetesaclaques.tv discover enabled
You surely know that Microsoft has just released its public Beta of Soapbox, its online video service. Hey!Watch already handles it! We also did the same for the more and more popular canadian show Tetesaclaques.tv.
API improvements
Developers can now override global options like FTP or ping after encode for each job they create through the API. See the updated doc on the wiki.
Automatic encode available for all uploading ways
When you upload from your disk, the video will be encoded automatically if you enable the automatic encode option. From now, whatever the way you transfer a video, it can be automatically converted.
Store with Amazon S3
Your encoded videos can now be directly sent to your S3 storage space. Set this option in your account page (Developer tab).
4 Responses to “Send via Email, Soapbox, API improvements and Amazon S3”
S3 ..cool, good work.
How about this as an idea:
uploaded file->encoded->also converted to mms-> sent as mms
Obviously you’d have to charge per mms sent. Vodafone UK are apparently going to be providing some measure of youtube access on their 3g phones soon, It’d be cool to provide some way of sending out video easily to mobile users..
By Mike D on Feb 19, 2007
The main problem with MMS is the video cannot be > 600KB (or less depending on providers).
But MMS -> HW works great with orange (I don’t know for others).
By Bruno Celeste on Feb 19, 2007
I know n0w the pr0blem why i cant upl0ad s0me videos on my mobile… It has a file limit. I try to c0nvert 48kb flv video via url to be c0nverted to 3gp. And heywatch can’t disc0ver it. Its says “err0r n0 video link f0und”? But the .flv file is w0rking!
By Chynnaheart on Feb 25, 2007