SplashCast Launches New Multimedia Player – It’s Smooth

SplashCast has launched a new version of their multimedia player. SplashCast is best known for the ability to take different types of media (video, audio, pictures, text) and merge them into one show. Today's upgraded player is very sweet indeed.

Marshall Kirkpatrick, Director of Content at SplashCast offered the following list of features:

• Item level navigation, with preview thumbnails and captions.
• Inline, multi-media commening – text, video and audio – with easy publisher moderation.
• “Follow me” email subscription to future shows by any publisher.

The inline commenting is great, though one thing I didn't notice is whether a comment is associated with the entire show or a specific piece of the show. If it's on the specific piece of the show, then it's a bit like Viddler's inline commenting.

The preview thumbnails are YouTube-like and very smooth. This was one of my frustrations with SplashCast in the past – in that you had to use these boring arrows to try to move forward and back – now you get a small thumbnail with title so you can jump around as desired. Check out our previous SplashCast coverage.

I have embedded Marshall's 3-minute overview of the new features (RSS come inside!):

And here is a live sample of the new player:

Tip to Rex Dixon