Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 2.2.2.0 addressing short URL support

In previous releases, we had short URL support. A couple versions ago, instead of specifically supporting each short URL service, I implemented an “unshortening” service named unshort.me which covered the conversion of all short URL services to the proper long URLs. Well, that was my mistake of depending on a third party to be reliable because a month or so ago, the author made changes which affect the plugin and, possibly as early as December 2011, that service will go out of business entirely. So… I hunkered down and wrote the C# code myself to do the unshortening of the URLs in the plugin so this will never be an issue again. From now on, I’ll just suck it up and do it myself than relying on a third party… sorry about that!

On a side note, in a recent Seesmic Desktop update, the application not only caused my plugin not to work, but the entire application crashes altogether. I’ve made the appropriate changes to my plugin to prevent this from happening but just to comment on it… it was a change they made, not me that caused this and I’m still discussing with them what could have caused it. So if that happens, you need to download the new XAP file here and manually put it in your Documents\Seesmic\Plugins folder.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 2.2.1.0 fixing YouTube URL issues

In the case that non-alphanumeric characters appeared in a YouTube URL, neither the thumbnail nor the video would show. I’ve released a new version of the Video Preview plugin to address this. It should automatically update to this latest version. If you’re new to this plugin, you can check it out from the Seesmic marketplace.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 2.2.0.0 fixing TwitVid issues.

I’ve updated the Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin to 2.2.0.0 which fixes some issues when showing TwitVid videos. It should automatically update to the latest version. You can install the plugin from the Seesmic marketplace.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Video Preview plugin update status

I’m well aware of the Twitvid video issues showing up in Seesmic Desktop 2 in regards to my plugin. This was caused by a change to their system. While I’ve already got the code waiting to upload an a new version as far as actually showing the video, the showing of the thumbnail requires input from their side so that’s what I’m waiting on.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 1.2.0.0 with added Vimeo support!

So it’s been a long time coming but I just updated the Video Preview plugin to 1.2 which adds Vimeo support. I also made some changes in how it parses the text so that everything gets run through the unshort.me unshortening service which should provide much more support for shortened URLs.

Go here to download it and let me know how it goes!

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 1.1.2.1 to address erroneous incompatibility issue

Apparently an issue arose around SD2′s newest version reporting an incompatibility issue with the Video Preview plugin. This update addresses this by correctly specifying the full SDP version in the assembly… so no changes to the user here, simple backend maintenance stuff to alleviate this single issue. To download, head over to my project page here or the just grab it off of the Seesmic Desktop Marketplace (auto-updates to the latest).

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 1.1.2.0 adding unshort.me support

I updated the Video Preview plugin to 1.1.2.0. This adds support for URL shortening services that are supported by unshort.me. To download, head over to my project page here or the just grab it off of the Seesmic Desktop Marketplace (old version is the initial download but it auto-updates to the latest).

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview updated to 1.1.1.0 with added migre.me support

The Seesmic guys are a pretty friggin awesome. My original version that was posted to the Seesmic Marketplace had a small typo in the AppManifest that prevented automatic updates. I fixed it and those guys immediately assisted and put the new version up on their site… on a Saturday!

Anywho, enough gushing over how awesome the guys behind Seesmic are… I’ve updated the plugin yet again this time adding migre.me short URL support. Thanks to bit.ly and migre.me for providing easy APIs to expand short URLS… and to is.gd, you need to get with the program and provide this service too!. I also hopefully enhanced performance a little by multi-threading the actual creation of the thumbnails themselves so there may be a half-second delay in their creation but you’ll thank me when you see 10 posts in a row with video links and the app doesn’t slow to a crawl trying to create the thumbnails.

You can get the newest version here.

As for the previously mentioned issue around auto-updating, I’m doing everything right and SD2 is properly checking the right URL but it’s still not working… I hope it’s just a caching thing on my local machine so hopefully just an issue with me and not everyone else. I’ll update on this situation if I see any change…

EDIT: It’s working now! Forgot to put the build number for the Platform version.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview updated to 1.1.0.0 (bit.ly support!)

I submitted my plugin to the Seesmic Desktop 2 Marketplace and it was approved but more on that in a bit. So after some excellent suggestions by Seesmic’s Director of Community & Partnerships, I addressed a small issue where, if the video is playing and the popup dialog is closed, the sound will continue playing for a certain amount of time. Even better though, per his suggestion, I added support for the video preview to show up for short URLs which makes it even more awesome than before. You can read more about the new additions here.

Updated Seesmic Deskop Plugin (Video Preview) to 1.0.0.3

I’ve updated the Seesmic Desktop Plugin project Video Preview to 1.0.0.3. This one is using the latest 1.0.0 SDK (SDP) and has the ability to auto-update. Also, on a side note, I’ve submitted it for the Seesmic plugin marketplace so let’s hope it gets on there. In the meantime, you can download the new one here.