Enjoy YouTube 3D Videos on NVIDIA 3D Vision machines in Firefox Web Browser

YouTube has been working on 3D video streaming for a long time. I remember that last July, YouTube declared that it would fully support 3D video streaming in the next 12 months. Now the prediction becomes true. Today, Nvidia and Mozilla officially announced that they begin to support 3D HTML5 YouTube video streaming on desktop machines equipped with Nvidia 3D Vision hardware. Currently, web browsers don't support this new feature except Mozilla Firefox 4; and there have been thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube. From now on, you can enjoy videos in theater-quality and full-resolution 3D on YouTube on your laptops or PCs.

Several things are needed before you experience the stereoscopic 3D on YouTube, they are:

1. NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped desktop machines
2. latest NVIDIA GeForce® drivers (version 275 or above)
3. Mozilla Firefox web browser (version 4 or above)
4. 3D glasses
5. Check the HTML5 option on the player of a YouTube 3D video.

Now check the 3D YouTube video below and tell us how do you like the new 3D experience. And don't forget you can download YouTube videos with this Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Below is the full PR via Nvidia:

NVIDIA 3D Vision Video Now Available Worldwide on YouTube


Users Can Easily Share and Enjoy High-Quality, Stereoscopic 3D Videos on YouTube With Their NVIDIA 3D Vision PCs


SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/26/2011 -- NVIDIA today announced that YouTube is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in rich, high-quality stereoscopic 3D on their NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ PCs and notebooks when using the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.


"We're excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube," said Jonathan Huang, 3D Product Manager at YouTube. "By embracing these open standards, NVIDIA 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube's library of 3D content."


"Firefox with 3D Vision creates a stunning and smooth 3D video experience using HTML5 video based on open standards," said Jay Sullivan, VP of Products at Mozilla. "3D Vision from NVIDIA is a great example of the rich, innovative experiences that are being built on top of the speed and graphics power that Firefox delivers to the Web."


"Sales of our ASUS G series notebooks with 3D Vision have been strong," said Ben Thacker, vice president of Systems Business Group-Distribution, ASUS North America. "Now that users can view YouTube videos in high-quality 3D, we expect interest in the ASUS 3D Vision models to grow significantly."


With a number of new, consumer 3D video cameras launched this year, YouTube's support of NVIDIA 3D Vision technology extends its existing commitment to 3D, enabling even more consumers and 3D enthusiasts to share their 3D videos online. With attractively priced models now available from JVC, Sony and other leading vendors, users now have another easy way to capture and post high-quality 3D videos on YouTube, 3DVisionLive.com, or even their own websites by embedding the YouTube 3D video player.


To further showcase the new YouTube stereoscopic 3D video streaming capabilities and some of the latest professional and user-generated 3D YouTube videos, NVIDIA is now hosting the top YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos on its 3D web community site at www.3DVisionLive.com/YT3D.


"YouTube 3D on an NVIDIA 3D Vision PC is an amazing experience," said Phil Eisler, general manager of 3D Vision at NVIDIA. "Now 3D Vision PC users can enjoy over 525 games, YouTube videos and photos in theater-quality, full-resolution 3D."


To view YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos an NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped PC or notebook and the latest NVIDIA GeForce® drivers (version 275 or above) are required, as well as Firefox (version 4 or above), which includes support for HTML5 video streaming. Users will also need to select the HTML5 viewing option when viewing a YouTube 3D video: http://www.youtube.com/select_3d_mode.


In addition, with NVIDIA 3DTV Play™ software, users can connect their PCs to their 3D HDTVs to enjoy 3D YouTube videos on the "big screen" in the comfort of their living rooms.

YouTube Acquires Next New Networks and Launches YouTube Next Program

The world best search engine Google has made two acquisitions today. Just several hours after the acquisition of British price comparision site BeatThatQuote.com for GBP37.7 million (USD61.2 million), Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube announces that they have acquired video production team Next New Networks, which has been rumored since the end of last years.

Founded in 2007, Next New Networks focuses on high-quality web video production. After the acquisition of Next New Networks, YouTube immediately launches YouTube Next program, to help video publishers grow faster and make more successful videos with the support from Next New Networks’ experts team. In other words, YouTube aims to push their partners to generate more attractive videos.

YouTube has always valued the cooperation with their parners. Last year, the video site released Partner Grants Program to help video publishers to promote their videos and make incomes. At Christmas Eve, YouTube even sent each of their partners $1000 voucher to help them improve the filming and production equipment.

YouTube Next is a global program. But it's not known yet that how many people around the world will be included in the program.

Off topic:
YouTube users could use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to free download YouTube videos to computer.

iPad and Motorola Xoom Comparision Videos on YouTube

Last week, two videos comparing iPad and Motorola Xoom have been posted on YouTube. The two YouTube videos, one of the two is posted by Wirefly and the other one is by SoldierKnowsBest, reviewed the performances and main features of iPad and Motorola's table Xoom, letting us to believe that Xoom is generally performing better than iPad (not iPad 2).

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Motorola Xoom equips with Google's latest tablet Operating System Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM and two cameras; while iPad's processor is single-core, the RAM is only 256MB and no camera. iPad is completely defeated by Xoom in terms of functionality and performance. Xoom is so powerful that it makes Apple has to publish new generation for iPad in a short period of time. The below picture shows detailed comparision of iPad and Motorola Xoom.

It's rejoice to Google Android users but bad for Apple fans. one Apple fan cries, "It's a bad compare. Compare it soon with the iPad 2" One Android fan added, "Xoom owns iPad so bad. Jobs better has something good for the announcement on March 2nd."

It's rumored that iPad 2 is scheduled to released tomorrow with a lower price than the first-gen iPad, and the white iPad will also be available. They're just rumors. We'd better wait and see.

YouTube Denies Movie Rental Service in Europe

If you're a YouTube fan, you may have heard that the video site is going to launch unlimited movie rental service in Europe, first in the UK before expanding the service to the US. This move by YouTube is considered to compete with Netflix and Amazon. However, YouTube has denied the plan.

A YouTube UK's office spokeman told Paidcontent that the video giant has no plan to expand its US-based movie rental service to Europe countries at the present. "Today, YouTube is focused on building out and improving its current US-based rental offering. While we aim to always push all of our products out globally to our community, we have no plans to launch a European rentals service in the near future", he said.

YouTube has always been making efforts to expand its service content. Last week, media reported that YouTube talks with NBA and NHL to stream live sports games. The movie rental service has already been available on the site in the US since last year.

YouTube: Boosting Upload Speed by Google's Cloud Computing

It is reported that with the help of Google's massive cloud computing infrastructure of data centers and web servers, YouTube is reducing the time it takes to upload and process the videos uploaded by users.

Benefited from these enhanced measures, especially the Google's internal Hydra project, YouTube claims that the upload time of 60% videos will be completed within less than a minute - 7 times faster than it did in 2008 and four times faster 6 months ago.

Chris Dale, the YouTube spokeman said that the company's goal is to reduce the upload delay time to in seconds, not in minutes. This move is as well to reduce user frustration, as to overall operating costs.

Directly download YouTube HTML5 videos - is that true?

If you like to watch the HTML5 videos on YouTube, you might have noticed the 'Save Video As' sub-menu in right-click menu over a HTML5 video. It seems that we can download the HTML videos from YouTube. Oh, my God! Is that true? We can directly save the chosen HTML5 video to computer without any third-party software, add-on or website? Is Google Crazy or just want to give up Flash to push HTML5?

But wait a minute, when click the 'Save Video As' sub-menu, YouTube will send you to Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' video page:


Yes, YOU ARE FOOLED by YouTube! Though it's not April Fool's Day today. Haha.. That menu can't help you to save any YouTube HTML5 video to your computer.

To download YouTube video, you can just use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader - http://www.leawo.com/youtube-download/

Predict the 83rd Oscar Winners via Google Oscar Search Trends

Hey, buddy, you know that the 83rd Annualy Oscar Academy Awards will be held on February 27, 2011; believe or not, I know who will be the 83rd Oscar winners! You might think that I've got to be kidding you. I just 'know' it, as I have Google Oscar Search Trends, a tool newly released by the world best search engine Google to predict the Oscar winners.

Niv Efron, member of Google Insights' search team, said that

in the past three years the Best Picture winners (The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire and No Country for Old Men) have all shown an upward trend in searches for at least four weeks before the awards.

Currently searches of Black Swan is far beyond Inception and The Fighter. If the above prediction pattern applied to this year's Oscar-nominated films, Black Swan will be the Oscar Best Picture winner! Funny! Everyone know the winners of Oscar before the award! Just go to Google Oscar Search Trends and make your own prediction! The tool collects all nominees in all categories.

However, Efron said that 'We can't say for sure what will happen this year, since searches can only reflect what people are interested in, but it's fun to look for patterns that persist year after year'.

Off topic: YouTube users can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download Flash videos from YouTube and any other websites. It is free.

YouTube Acquires Fflick to Help Users Discover and Share Hot Videos from Social Media Sites

Google Group Product Manager Shiva Rajaraman has just announced on YouTube Official Blog, that YouTube, the subsidiary of Google Inc., had acquired Twitter sentiment analysis and recommendation engine fflick for $10 million. YouTube made the move to recommend users with viral videos over the social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook.

According to Wikipedia,

fflick is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films based on information collected on Twitter the microblogging and social media service.
fflick was launched in August 2010 by Kurt Wilms and three other ex Digg employees.

Shiva Rajaraman said that YouTube has been collecting social signals, including comments, video responses and ratings from social networking sites these years. The acquisition of fflick just meets YouTube's need on this point, as "…Fflick, a talented team that analyzes social media data to surface great content and the discussions around it", Rajaraman said in the blog post.

The Group Product Manager also revealed that they are 'look forward to rolling out more features that help you enjoy and discover new videos to watch'. So let's wait and see a new fflick built with YouTube features.

Source is YouTube World

Chrome Drops Support for H.264 to Push Open Source WebM Codec

As the report from Google Chrome Official Blog, future versions of the Chrome browser will not support playback of H.264 format video anymore. Instead, Chrome will support Google's self-developed open format WebM. This means that, users can not directly see H.264 format videos on Chrome in the future, and have to search for third-party extensions. Currently H.264 is the most widely used web video encoding formats. Google's move will push WebM open format, and replace H.264 gradually.

According to Wikipedia -

WebM is a multimedia container format designed to provide a royalty-free, high-quality open video compression format for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google.
A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container based on a profile of Matroska. The project releases WebM related software under a BSD license and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license.

Google said that WebM is rather efficient, as WebM video can play smoothly on netbook, tablet and handsets. YouTube, the subsidiary of Google will surely support WebM. Additionally, Adobe announced that its Flash Player will be updated to support VP8, but has not announced support for Vorbis or the Matroska-based WebM container. Other companies that support WebM includes AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, TI, etc. Intel is also considering hardware-based acceleration for WebM in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity. Internet Explorer 9 will also be able to support WebM files if the VP8 codec is installed locally. WebM is also supported by popular web browsers such as FireFox, Chrome and Opera.

Off topic: YouTube users can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download Flash videos from YouTube and any other websites. It is free.

Source is YouTube World

YouTube 2.0 App for Android Now Supports VEVO's Music Video Playback with Pre-Roll Ads

YouTube has announced its new application for Android – YouTube 2.0 on its official blog yesterday. Android 2.2 or above uses now can watch VEVO's music videos with the newly released YouTube 2.0 for Android. Additionally, pre-roll ads is supported to display on videos from YouTube partners.

• Don't have YouTube 2.0 for Android yet? Just install it.
If you're Android 2.2 or above users but don't have the new YouTube 2.0 app, you can manually search for 'YouTube' in Android Market, download and install the latest version on your Android devices.
• Enjoy Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Ke$ha, Eminem… etc. songs and music videos on your Android devices.
The music videos supported playback in YouTube 2.0 for Android are VEVO's extensive library of official music videos from artists like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West, Ke$ha, Eminem and U2. So just pick up music videos from your favorite artists for watching at anytime or anywhere.

New features to make it more easier to discover and enjoy music videos on mobile devices.

1. Music videos are now clearly marked with a 'music note' badge
2. While enjoying the video you can read 'artist bio'
3. It's easy to discover more tracks from the same artist using 'artist tracks' tab
4. You'll find similar cool bands on the 'related artists' tab

Pre-roll ads for YouTube mobile content partners

In addition to the above features, revenue of YouTube partners who distribute their content to mobile can be greatly expanded, as pre-roll ads are now supported to display on their videos.

The world biggest video site also announced a new milestone they have just reached - YouTube now exceeds 200 million views a day on mobile, a 3x increase in 2010.