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August 12, 2008

Posterous launches the easiest video sharing online

Posterous now supports video! Simply email us your mov, avi, 3gp, or m4v files (or whatever else you have), and we'll convert them into embedded flash players instantly. Sharing video on the web has never been easier. Try it now: email post@posterous.com a video file off your digital camera. That's all there is to it, no account necessary!

A few years ago I organized a poker tournament with about 100 players and thousands of dollars in the pot. Here's the 8 hour event, sped up to just 1 minute.

Get the Flash Playerto see this player.
(download)

We even went back and processed all the videos you've sent us in the past, so check your old posts for the new player.

Also: we added support for many additional audio formats such as wav and m4a. Send those to us to get the Posterous audio player right in your blog.

There are a ton of different video formats out there so if you find one that doesn't play in your post, email us and we'll check it out.



Comments (27)
Aug 12, 2008

posterous kicks ass.

and of course it was fake money and not *real* gambling and all for charity and no alcohol was served.

(but how did it end, surely more exciting than an Elvis fade out)

Aug 12, 2008

Daniel said...
Cool stuff, I hope you are ready for some huge attachments. :P

FYI, the "watch on posterous" url in the RSS feed incorrectly used sachin.posterous instead of blog.posterous

Aug 12, 2008

Bill Wilhelm said...
Wow cool. Agree with Daniel. People are really going to be blowing their 1 gig caps with video I would imagine.

Aug 12, 2008

anthony marco said...
Being the cynical bastard I am, I look for things to complain about... but damn, posterous is robbing me of material.

alex schliker said...
you guys rock.

alex schliker said...
wow, as i was watching the video, i left a comment... and bam, page reload, video interrupted :(... ajax anyone??

Aug 12, 2008

Garry Tan said...
Word... ajax commenting coming very soon ;-)

Aug 13, 2008

Hi,

Great! Feature, asked for from my side, really! :)

But

"We even went back and processed all the videos you've sent us in the past, so check your old posts for the new player."

http://andersabrahamsson.posterous.com/in-the-swing

Not?

Peace,
Anders

Aug 13, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...
Anders, sorry your video must have slipped through the cracks. It has been processed now. Thanks!

Aug 13, 2008

anthony marco said...
This addition has had me brainstorming... when you get to the point where these rounds tweaks and additions are done, a couple of network pages would be great. I envision the posterous podcast network that would allow a central location for everyone who does podcasting. Not only would it help users find existing posterous podcasts, but also (I think anyway) it would do a great job of encouraging podcasters on other platforms to come over and join the party.

Now with video, I foresee podcast.posterous.com with networks of radio, tv, etc... every add you make is opening branches of potential uses.

Aug 13, 2008

hungry said...
AHHHH!! I'm excited! Thanks for the awesome effort ^___^

Aug 13, 2008

This is really COOOL! COOOL !

I love you guys, thats exactly what i wished in my mind! :D

http://sitonit.posterous.com/wishlist-of-features

Aug 13, 2008

John Johnston said...
many thanks, very slick

Aug 13, 2008

@sachin - checked it out. Cool! Thanks!

Aug 13, 2008

Nice! Now, it would be great if I could add a picture when I edit a post on Posterous.com ;-)

Aug 13, 2008

Edward Ross said...
Thanks guys. You are doing such great work here. Thanks for the little quote marks around quotation sections too. Nice little touch.
Will you be adding Youtube to the "Autopost to anywhere" list, now that you have videos too? Youtube seems to allow such a thing through their API:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_protocol.html#Uploading_Videos

Aug 14, 2008

Jean Vincent said...
Is there an embed link somewhere?

Aug 15, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...
Hi Jean, currently we dont have an embed link that's easily accessible for other sites but we will absolutely have this soon. Thanks!

Aug 16, 2008

Stephanie Lim said...
Is there a limit to the length of video?

Aug 16, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...
No limit. If you can get it to us, we'll convert it and host it!

Sep 15, 2008

Is there any list of all video / audio files I can sent to posterous and will be automatically converted? Can't find something like this...
Thanks in advance, great service!
/Chris

Sep 15, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...
We don't have a published list anywhere but we handle 99% of all audio and video correctly. What format are you trying to send us?

Sep 15, 2008

A few weeks ago I tried *.amr the only format my mobile records voice ~ but no player appeared just a download link.
/chris

Geoff said...
Awww man. Why do you have to introduce crippling Newcastle nostalgia into my day?

Sep 16, 2008

Meant me? Is *.amr this old? :D I just had seen, that this is 1% of the files you don't integrate in your player! Please change it :) thx in advance!
/chris

Sep 17, 2008

Sachin Agarwal said...
We'll be adding .amr support soon! Thanks.

Sep 17, 2008

I have to thank! I'm impressed how good and easy posterous works

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