Suggestion [preview picture on video info pages]

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:32 pm

Wow, I'd hate to see this take root for hentai videos.

godix · Post by **godix** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:37 pm

trythil wrote:Wow, I'd hate to see this take root for hentai videos.

Seeing your name just made me think of one advantage, you could show Sink in it's entirety without anyone having to download the video.

As for the hentai vids, the ads on those are the one reason I'm kinda hoping this idea takes off.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:46 pm

trythil wrote:Wow, I'd hate to see this take root for hentai videos.

I was just thinking that. And I think I'll have fun abusing this. Since all my videos are so horribly bad, I'll spare people the trouble of downloading them by putting the ultimate warning in my video profile: a girl with pretty eyes. I could just not upload my videos, but this way is more fun.

odian0 · Post by **odian0** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:55 pm

Flint the Dwarf wrote:I was just thinking that. And I think I'll have fun abusing this. Since all my videos are so horribly bad, I'll spare people the trouble of downloading them by putting the ultimate warning in my video profile: a girl with pretty eyes. I could just not upload my videos, but this way is more fun.

agreed.

Prodigi · Post by **Prodigi** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:55 pm

so... where does this go from here?

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:35 pm

Actually, at one point I was working on making a small, 30s "preview" of the video. It worked fairly well, except that only mplayer, vlc, and xine could play the previews. Windows Media Player barfed...

If anyone knows how to create MPEG4 video with mencoder that WMP likes, drop me a note.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:58 pm

derobert wrote:Actually, at one point I was working on making a small, 30s "preview" of the video. It worked fairly well, except that only mplayer, vlc, and xine could play the previews. Windows Media Player barfed...

If anyone knows how to create MPEG4 video with mencoder that WMP likes, drop me a note.

I know those players (not sure about xine) all have built in support for playing back anything. With windows media player or any directshow based player, you need to have an mp4 splitter installed on your system.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:05 pm

Oh, and short of actually requiring people to install an mp4 splitter, you could try using one of those tools that can convert a video to flash. Then any browser with flash installed could play the preview. Or heck, maybe you could just go with mpeg-1 previews

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:17 pm

Zarxrax wrote:With windows media player or any directshow based player, you need to have an mp4 splitter installed on your system.

It wasn't .mp4; it was .avi... XVID in an AVI container.