Description

Descriptioon:

Author: Riffly.com

  • WHAT IS IT? Riffly is a free service that easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video and audio comments.
  • WHY DO I WANT IT? Video/audio comments bring trust, richness and a sense of community that text alone can’t deliver. See and hear the people that are contributing to your site.
  • WHO IS THIS FOR? Currently, bloggers using WordPress software with our official Wordpress Plugin.

If you have programming chops you can also use the free Developer API to integrate Riffly with any existing or new system.

  • IS IT FREE? Yes. The service is advertising supported. We cover all the costs for bandwidth, servers, and maintenance.

Optionally, we also offer Premium Riffly accounts that provide you with additional benefits, such as advertising removal, control panel access, analytics, and much more.

  • HOW DOES IT WORK? It integrates with your standard comment system so it’s unobtrusive and easy to use. It’s all web-based, so your visitors do not need to download or install anything.

Check out our demo to see an example of how it can be used on a blog.

  • WHERE IS RIFFLY GOING? We have ambitious plans for expanding the use of Riffly technology into many areas of the web. We believe Riffly can provide increased value for site owners and users alike.

If you’re interested in integrating the Riffly recording system into an application that we do not currently provide a plugin for, please check out our Developer API.

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FAQs

It’s not working, can you help?

Absolutely. We’re happy to help and always try to respond promptly. Send us an email at contact@riffly.com or fill out the contact form on our web site.

Why doesn’t the Flash recorder work with my Mac’s iSight webcam?

This is a problem with iSight/Flash and is not specific to Riffly’s recorder.

Riffly, will now auto-detect your iSight camera and select it for you, but just incase follow the below instructions:

Click the “Add Webcam Comment” link to bring up the Riffly recorder and then click “Allow”. Hold down the Control key and click with the mouse in the Flash recorder window. This will bring up the Flash menu, select “Settings…”. Then click on the camera tab at the bottom of that settings window. Select “USB Video Class Video” from the drop down list and it should begin to work.

Is it possible to change the text (to a different language)?

Yes. Edit the wp-content/plugins/riffly/wp-riffly.php file. At the top of the file uncomment the definition and edit the value. This will override the default value.

/***** BEGIN TRANSLATION *****/
// rifflyL10N["add_webcam_comment"] = "Add Webcam Comment";
// rifflyL10N["add_audio_comment"] = "Add Audio-only Comment";
// rifflyL10N["play_video_comment_link"] = "Play Video Comment";
// rifflyL10N["play_video_comment_comment"] = "Play Video<br>Comment &raquo;";
// rifflyL10N["play_audio_comment_link"] = "Play Audio Comment";
// rifflyL10N["play_audio_comment_comment"] = "Play Audio<br>Comment &raquo;";
// rifflyL10N["close_player_link"] = "X";
// rifflyL10N["close_recorder_link"] = "X";
/***** END TRANSLATION *****/

Here’s a (perhaps poor) translation into Japanese for example:

/***** BEGIN TRANSLATION *****/
rifflyL10N["add_webcam_comment"] = "ウェブカメラによるコメント";
rifflyL10N["add_audio_comment"] = "音声によるコメント";
rifflyL10N["play_video_comment_link"] = "コメント ビデオ再生";
rifflyL10N["play_video_comment_comment"] = "コメント ビデオ再生 &raquo;";
rifflyL10N["play_audio_comment_link"] = "音声コメントの再生";
rifflyL10N["play_audio_comment_comment"] = "音声コメントの再生 &raquo;";
rifflyL10N["close_player_link"] = "X";
rifflyL10N["close_recorder_link"] = "X";
/***** END TRANSLATION *****/

Is it possible to use only video comments (remove audio)?

Yes. You can choose to offer either webcam or audio comments or both. Edit the wp-content/plugins/riffly/wp-riffly.php file. At the top of the file uncomment option you want to set and change the value. Change true to false to disable.

/***** BEGIN OPTIONS *****/
// Change to false to disable.
// rifflyConfig["webcam_enabled"] = true;
// rifflyConfig["audio_enabled"] = true;
/***** END OPTIONS *****/

For webcam (video) only comments it should look like this:

/***** BEGIN OPTIONS *****/
// Change to false to disable.
rifflyConfig["webcam_enabled"] = true;
rifflyConfig["audio_enabled"] = false;
/***** END OPTIONS *****/

For audio only comments it should look like this:

/***** BEGIN OPTIONS *****/
// Change to false to disable.
rifflyConfig["webcam_enabled"] = false;
rifflyConfig["audio_enabled"] = true;
/***** END OPTIONS *****/

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