changes

Help me test out some of the new goodies before we deploy to the production system. Changes include:

• Player: support for M3U, XSPF, RSS playlists (sorry Lucas!) using JW and XSPF open-source Flash players. Enhanced support for youtube.com and archive.org media urls that do not include file extensions useful for determining media type. Also, various bug fixes related to lead video display and testing with more types of Flash video from sites like AOL, Comedy Central, iFilm and others.
• Channels Directory: Added link to "Create Channel" in Channels Diretory header. Increase search box width in CSS and reduce font size to match rest of page.
• New popup player (see any channel) and embedded players (see Ojai Digital Dojo for an example).

Just back from a great time at Pixelodeon. Got to give a fun presentation with JD. We showed off the new Channels feature. Nice crowd of folks. I met Hannah there, who hooked me up with the SB Indie CoOp, where I had another great meetup and told more folks about Ourmedia and SpinXpress.

I made a lot of changes just before the Pixelodeon event. Mainly adding the new channel templates, but also fixing a lot of old bugs. JD put together a great list of changes still needed in this area and so I hammered a few of those before the event and plan to keep at it through this next week.