The scoop behind KXLY.com's ginormous new video player
You probably noticed if you've logged on to KXLY.com in the last few weeks, we changed the way we're serving video in a big way. Well, here's the behind-the-scenes scoop on the new video player and all of the cool little features our new player has in store for you.
First of all it's big. The old player featured a fairly small video window with a vertical scrolling menu of recent videos posted to the player.
The player served us well, but when the opportunity came to kick things up a notch we moved forward with the deployment of the new video player.
When you look at the two side-by-side the first thing you'll be struck by is the size of the player. We moved the additional content below the video window so that you would see a larger video presentation. Though one thing about this new video window is that you're able to click on the little box to the lower right side of the player and enable full screen mode to watch the video and nothing but the video.
See how the picture is blowing out the dimensions of the blog? Well that's the full screen size at 1280 pixels wide by 1024 pixels high.
But the new player's functionality doesn't end there ... I know this is going to sound like a Cal Worthington (and his dog Spot) type of sales pitch but wait there truly is more.
First up: E-Mail a video clip to a friend.
Now, you can't physically e-mail the clip to someone, but you can send them an e-mail which will direct them to where they can view the clip. If you want to download clips, head over to our Podcasts directory and you can subscribe to our videos and download them from our podcasts.
Next up: Grabbing the video
Now I said you can't physically e-mail a clip to someone - again with the shameless plug to check out our Podcasts directory - but the new player will allow you to grab and share the video on your personal blog. It features both an embed and a permalink option to share the video on your website.
Finally: Share the video
Here you can share the video with others using a number of popular services like Digg, Facebook, del.icio.us, Live, Yahoo and my understanding is that many more sites will be added in the coming days and weeks to give you many more options to share video clips with whoever you'd like to share them with.
So there you have it, the down and dirty details on KXLY.com's ginormous video player. So what do you think? Love it? Hate it? Let us know.