Media Mill News http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:13:39 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33.uthink http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Storage upgrades complete You may have noticed some notices about downtime this week and last, due to storage upgrades. I'm happy to say that the upgrades are now complete, and we're in good shape to continue growing.

For the technically minded, the first round of downtime, last week, was necessary in order to physically upgrade the RAID array. The second round was necessary in order to actually add the storage to the Media Mill SAN pool. In the future, upgrades should be able to take place in less time, as many of the tasks performed this time were one-time only.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/07/storage_upgrades_complete.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/07/storage_upgrades_complete.html News Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:13:39 -0600 Downtime As some of you surely noticed, MM was down for nearly 24 hours from noon on July 1st until 10:00am on July 2nd.

This was due to the fire and power outage at the WBOB data center. Sorry for the inconvenience.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/07/downtime.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/07/downtime.html News Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:10:32 -0600 New Features Some new features just went live. Most requested - Thumbnail selection, as previewed here earlier. Just click the 'edit metadata' link for your video, and you can use the slider to pick a new thumbnail. You'll get a near-instant response, and changes take place instantly.

Also, there's a new filtering option on the 'My Videos' page, as well as some new embedding and instant play options. Neato.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/04/new_features.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/04/new_features.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:55:07 -0600 Remember when I updated this blog? Yeah, me too. I'm going to try and get back to that. Here's a sneak peak at an upcoming feature.


Media Mill Video

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/03/remember_when_i_updated_this_b_1.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2008/03/remember_when_i_updated_this_b_1.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:03:52 -0600 Subclipping Rad...


]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/08/subclipping.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/08/subclipping.html Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:43:24 -0600 I smell bug Picture 4

So I just moved us to Compressor 3.0.1. Things seem pretty good, except some Flash and Windows Media files seem to be reaching up to 350% complete... odd.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/08/i_smell_bug_1.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/08/i_smell_bug_1.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:48:49 -0600 One click to Uthink Media Mill Video

Nice..


]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/08/one_click_to_uthink.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/08/one_click_to_uthink.html News Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:26:15 -0600 More Milestones It took us 6 months to reach 15,000 videos served. It took one more to reach 20,000. Cool.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/06/more_milestones.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/06/more_milestones.html News Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:52:10 -0600 Milestones I'm out of town for a bit, but I wanted to post that Media Mill created its 3000th derivative this weekend. We've actually compressed about 9000 derivatives total, counting the DCL, but this is 3000 Media Mill User videos.

We also passed 15,000 videos served a few weeks ago. That doesn't count owners watching their own videos, and we only started counting in November of 2006. So, that's pretty cool I think.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/milestones.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/milestones.html News Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:14 -0600 De-Beta'd Hey look, it's not beta anymore.

Rad.

To get an idea of what all has been rolled into this new build, check out my post from last week. Everything except GTV is now live. Cool.

As always, let me know if things are busted up.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/debetad.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/debetad.html News Fri, 11 May 2007 10:47:26 -0600 What's in the pipe I was just out walking and was contemplating all the new features in the next release of Media Mill. I figured I'd give a roundup of what's coming (hopefully in the next two weeks).

  • Support for audio-only files (transcoding to AAC or FLV)
  • Thumbnail browsing interface (browse by thumbs instead of clip titles)
  • Captioning support for Flash files
  • GopherTV support (may not be enabled in the release)
  • Automatic widescreen detection (including anamorphic DV files) ... hopefully
  • Various bugfixes

Hopefully this will be rolled out towards the end of this week, depending on how implementation of the anamorphic detection goes...

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/whats_in_the_pipe.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/whats_in_the_pipe.html News Sat, 05 May 2007 19:26:53 -0600 Did someone say captioning? Rock.

Roll.

(press the CC button)

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/did_someone_say_captioning.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/05/did_someone_say_captioning.html Thu, 03 May 2007 16:51:10 -0600 Hmm... Audio Only? It's coming ...





















]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/03/hmm_audio_only.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/03/hmm_audio_only.html Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:05:28 -0600 Media Mill Overview (again) I've done another short overview of Media Mill, including some of the new features. Take a look.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/03/media_mill_overview_again.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/03/media_mill_overview_again.html News Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:17:54 -0600 Downtime Today In case anyone is wondering, the downtime today was just due to the CLA-wide outage for some power work at the data center. Everything is cool with Media Mill.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/03/downtime_today.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/mediamill/2007/03/downtime_today.html News Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:49:11 -0600