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Hello AOL Video users. Its been a little while since we've been in touch. When we last were in touch back in December of 2009, we had just finished rolling out a collection of back end features that improved general functionality for AOL editorial and International users. We were very proud of that release, as it contributed to the overall stability of the video player product. Over the course of Q1 and Q2 of 201, we've continued to introduce platform and stability enhancements. We're sure you'll agree that stability is important. We think you will also agree that ease of use is equally important. That's why we're very excited to announce the release of our new video quality selection feature. Now users are able to select the video quality setting that's ideal for your Internet connection speed and your video quality expectations.

Earlier this year, the AOL Video Player team identified and resolved a number of video playback bugs in AOL Clients 9.0, 9.1 and several other releases within the AOL software family. For all of you users who hung in there and helped us debug the issues, thank you! Now that the player is working smoothly again, count on our continued monitoring of video playback in the AOL Client.

Learn more about our plan after the jump!

If you haven't seen Urlesque.com's post on "The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos", then you are missing out on an awesome "time wasting" activity. The Urlesque team has pulled together some of AOL Video's all time favorites including "Will it Blend" the best viral video featuring an iPod not made by Apple, the creepy "Little Superstar", and the uproarsly funny but controversial "Inmate 'Thriller' Dance". Watch them all at once or ration them out over 100 breaks. In either case, enjoy!

Happy Viewing!

Victor, AOL Video Team

Teaming up with Verizon, MediaGlow's Moviefone.com site launched a new daily video series called "Moviefone Minute" April 1. Hosted by Kimberly Lansing, Minute promises a "Daily Dose of Movie Dish." We're excited to see a MediaGlow site lean into a wide screen viewing experience, but expect nothing less of our Moviefone colleagues who launched a fantastic HD-Trailer hub late last year. Hop over and check it out the next time you're ready for a coffee break in the office.

Happy Viewing!

Victor, AOL Video Team

The only thing better than building great video products is getting them in front of consumers to use. That's why we're always looking for feedback on our video platform and products. Got a question, comment or suggestion? Great. We encourage you to share them with us. We'll do our best to review and address them on Inside AOL Video as frequently as we can.

Thanks and happy viewing!

Victor, AOL Video Team

The AOL Video team recently rolled out a new video player and platform to power content across AOL's MediaGlow Web Site network. The video player and platform, powered by Brightcove, will replace our home-grown video solution (code named FPM) as our global solution for video playback. We're excited to have the experience in production and invite your comments and feedback.

Thanks and happy viewing!

Victor, AOL Video Team

Watch more Live in Hollywood - Aquarius videos on AOL Video

We are excited to announce the successful launch of Video Player 5.5.4 to production today (Monday, April 21, 2008). The 5.5.4 release features a number of new features that we hope you will be able to make good use of:

1. Pre-roll with synched rich media 300 x 250 banner
2. Support for non-synched 300 x 250 UAC banner
3. Support for UI color customization
4. UI enhancements
5. Branding logo enhancements
6. Dynamic blocking of Ads that do not support the synched text link

Coinciding with the release of Player 5.5.4, the Video Player's integration with Google Sponsored Links was recently approved, enabling sponsored links to appear in the mid-roll and post-roll events for the all Flash FPM player.

Example of FPM Player released in Player 5.5.4