Direct Upload Video to Blogs.

Blogger has now enabled Direct Video Uploading to your blogs. There is now no need to first upload video to Youtube and all the hassles of pasting the Embed code in your blog post.


You can directly upload videos without leaving your Post Editor in Blogger and the videos are uploaded to Google Video and the code placed in your blog post automatically............



This is a birthday present from Blogger. Yes Blogger celebrated it's eighth bithday Blogger Buzz: Happy Eighth Birthday! on 23 August and unveiled direct video uploads the next day. Previously you may have noticed Blogger testing it out in Blogger in Draft.



Now you need not worry any more about creating an account at google Video and uploading video there and then all the problems with getting the video to show on your blog by arranging the code in a continuous line. Blogger does it all for you.
Morever after uploading the video it is automatically converted into a video podcast! It will help if you enable the enclosure links for podcasting.

However if you don’t have the enclosure links visible (i.e. “Show Link fields” is set to “No”), we auto-add and auto-delete the enclosure links for your video uploads. If you do have the enclosure links visible, we’ll auto-add but not auto-delete.

To turn on enclosure links, just go to Settings > Formatting and set the “Show Link fields” option to “Yes.” This will add the enclosure link fields to your post editor. From there, just paste in the URLs of your recorded media, and your blog will instantly become a podcast.



To add a video to your post login to Blogger Dashboard and click on +New Post link. Then in Post Editor click the new square 'Add Video' icon in top frame. This is what it looks like --->
To see a video go to Blogger Buzz: 3, 2, 1, Action!

Some points to note as quoted by Pete in Blogger in Draft: Enclosures and Video Podcasting:

1. Videos are provided for download in MP4 format.

2. Blogger supports adding multiple enclosures to a post, but for maximum compatibility with popular podcatchers, you may only want to include one enclosure per post.

3. By default, Blogger feeds are in Atom format. If certain podcatchers require RSS 2.0 format, have them subscribe to http://yourblog.blogspot.com/rss.xml.

4. The MIME Type is auto detected for common podcasting file extensions.

Now to figure out how we can use a Playlist Video feature here, or perhaps it is to be eagerly awaited.