Viddler

If you could see my face right now, you’d see the corners of my smile stretch from one ear to the other. Why? Because I’m really happy to be announcing the changes we’ve made with today’s latest version of Viddler.com.

The list of changes we’ve made in this release, which is version 2.4.06 for anyone keeping track of such things, are too numerous to list here. This release closed well over 50 tickets in our bug and feature tracking system - so that should give you a good scope of how big this release is.

New embed options panel.

The most visible change you’ll see is on our video viewing pages. So lets focus on the changes we’ve made there. Click on any video to view it, and you’ll see the page I’m talking about.

• Viewing “widescreen” video has improved greatly with this release. Our player is now embedding, keeping the aspect ratio of your videos, so that they now look so much better. Here are a few examples.
• Improvements to embedding video also reflect this attention to aspect ratio. Clicking the “Embed this” button now provides you with a whole new list of options.
• Other enhancements to this page include a list of options when hovering a user’s avatar, some new video and group video lists, comment rating filters, massively updated share this video options, and much more.

With this new release also comes an updated version of our video player. This new player is much more light weight when compared to our old one. The load time for the video player has been reduced by nearly half, while we’ve retained every feature in the player. This should significantly improve page loads times here on Viddler.com, as well as on any site that you’ve embedded the player on.

Several bug fixes to features like search, URL redirects, our advertisements and sponsorship features, and more - also made it into this release.

We’re really happy with this release and we’re already working on our next one. If you’d like to give us some feedback on this version, please do so in the comments.