Like the look of the videos on Flickr’s new mobile site? If you’re a website publisher, you may soon be able to use Yahoo’s video platform to convert your users’ uploaded clips into great-looking, iPhone-ready video files.
Yahoo launched an updated version of its mobile website for Flickr on Thursday, and along with that update came the ability to playback Flickr’s short, 90-second videos on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Other devices, like the T-Mobile G1 and the Nokia N-series phones, will be supported soon.
Videos on the Flickr mobile site are being processed by Yahoo’s new video platform, which works on the backend to transcode uploaded videos into the high-quality H.264 format. There’s also a web API for feeding videos into the transcoder and for collecting the results.
After we got a chance to demo the playback experience on the new site, a Flickr representative agreed to pass along some questions to the development team responsible for the new video platform.
Great way to feeding videos ,thanks