Hey!Watch Online Video Converter
There are several sites on the web that allow you to convert your audio and video files into different formats. But Marseille, France-based Hey!Watch appears to be a much more robust product than anything I’ve seen previously, and they’ve added developer tools to help build their functionality directly into other web services. The service is in private beta, but there is some information on the home page for you to read and you can request an invitation to join.
With Hey!Watch, users can import files to the service in a number of ways, including uploading from a hard drive or simply putting in the URL of a video from YouTube or other popular online video services. But they also allow users to upload videos via a RSS feed, so new enclosures from future shows will automatically be uploaded as well. The company has also created bookmarklets and a Firefox plugin to import a video from a currently viewed website to the service with a single click.
Once you’ve uploaded your files, they can be converted to all of the usual formats and then downloaded. And they’ve also used RSS intelligently here as well - they’ve created a RSS feed for all of a user’s converted files, so they can simply be gathered from a feed reader without going back to the Hey!Watch site each time.
Most products / services like this have only been available as software downloads for the program to run on your desktop. Having such tools available online is pretty cool stuff.