The Adobe Edge Newsletter has a goot article on Using the BitmapData class in ActionScript 3.0 to render video.  The approach described in the article uses the NetStream and Video classes to handle the loading and playback of video and then takes that data and displays it in a Bitmap object.  Once in the Bitmap object, you will be able to apply filters to give your video some very interesting effects.

Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion - people who put this much work into something deserve to have it viewed. Watch it - link to it!

Perian is a QuickTime component that provides many codecs that are not shipped with the standard QuickTime.  Of note are support for DivX, FLV, and various flavors of MPEG including MPEG-2.

I love this geeky stuff and the way that the Amazon Web Services Developer Connection is beginning to reach out to developers.  Their tutorial on Mass Video Conversion Using AWS will have running your own YouTube clone in no time at all using a mix of S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python.

VideoLAN Player has just been updated to version 0.8.6. A couple of very cool features have been added like codec support for Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video, a Fullscreen controller and if your a Mac user, it now supports the Apple Remote. VLC is the only video player I use. It pretty much plays anything I can throw at it and it is free and open source!

We all know that the Google Video Player is Flash based and that most Flash movies can be customized using additional parameters. So what parameters does Google use that will allow us to customize our players? Google Operating System blog has a short little post that will show you how to Customize the Embedded Google Video Player.