Does Anyone Have Experience with WP's VideoPress Service?
I've spent the last two days searching Google, YouTube, Bing, and just searched this forum and the level of information about Wordpress's VideoPress service, and in particular integration with a self-hosted WP installation is damn near scarily miniscule.
It's almost as if NO ONE has ever used the service. I've actually got a pre-sales ticket in at Automattic asking some of the same questions I'm going to ask here, and I suspect I will get an answer here before I get one from Automattic, which doesn't bode well on the customer service front, but on paper VideoPress looks like EXACTLY the solution I want, but there are two year old articles from prior to subsequent upgrades to the self-hosted plugin and VideoPress itself that leave some fairly key questions unanswered.
If anyone has actually used VideoPress I would love to hear your thoughts on my questions.
A) Does VideoPress provide links to a media enclosure file so I can plug that URL into Blubrry's PowerPress plugin for a video podcast on a self-hosted blog.
B) Has VideoPress expanded beyond 720p video to handle 1080p yet, or should I encode and upload 720p video only?
C) Have the problems with video hanging when uploaded from a self-hosted site due to a flaw in the plugin been resolved?
Honestly if I can't video podcast from a self-hosted site using Videopress it isn't what I need, but if I can video podcast from a self-hosted site using Videopress it might be EXACTLY what I need. The problem is there are almost no answers to these questions online, and scant documentation or tutorials about how to use Videopress for podcasting.
It's almost as if NO ONE has ever used the service. I've actually got a pre-sales ticket in at Automattic asking some of the same questions I'm going to ask here, and I suspect I will get an answer here before I get one from Automattic, which doesn't bode well on the customer service front, but on paper VideoPress looks like EXACTLY the solution I want, but there are two year old articles from prior to subsequent upgrades to the self-hosted plugin and VideoPress itself that leave some fairly key questions unanswered.
If anyone has actually used VideoPress I would love to hear your thoughts on my questions.
A) Does VideoPress provide links to a media enclosure file so I can plug that URL into Blubrry's PowerPress plugin for a video podcast on a self-hosted blog.
B) Has VideoPress expanded beyond 720p video to handle 1080p yet, or should I encode and upload 720p video only?
C) Have the problems with video hanging when uploaded from a self-hosted site due to a flaw in the plugin been resolved?
Honestly if I can't video podcast from a self-hosted site using Videopress it isn't what I need, but if I can video podcast from a self-hosted site using Videopress it might be EXACTLY what I need. The problem is there are almost no answers to these questions online, and scant documentation or tutorials about how to use Videopress for podcasting.