Super Search format option: All formats except WMV and RM

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:36 am

Pretty self-explanatory: search inclusively for MPG, MPEG, AVI, and MOV while excluding WMV and RM. It'd be an "increase your chances of finding a high-quality AMV that isn't based on DBZ" function!

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:54 am

I'd use it... A number of people may take offence to it though. Spicifically in this thread and very loudly.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:24 am

Maybe limit your filesize to more than a certain set point. You may still get the "lolz I compressed it all I can and it's still 120 MB" crowd, but you'll probably cut out the WMVs.

Not that I agree with the idea necessarily, but you could probably avoid them with a setting that's already there.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:30 pm

The size idea would probably work better. To get a RM file larger than 30 megas, you'd need what, 50 minutes of video?

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:34 pm

The filesize limit cuts out good quality trailers, shorts, and some H.264 encodes, though. It's annoying that I can't search for "new AMVs in the last month" without wading through hundreds of sucky quality videos in a format that I can't play consistently anyway (WMVs hardly ever play smoothly in Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac on my year-old Mac). Unless, of course, I do four separate searches, in which case I can't sort the whole list by another relevant factor...

Haven't seen the code for the Org's search function, but I know a multiple format search option is not difficult using PHP and some Javascript.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:45 pm

There already is a max min file size.

The supersearch is already pretty overloaded with options.
I'd support a 'files of type' checkbox (defaulted to ALL) then if people don't want .wmv, or .RM they could deselect it.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:20 pm

shazzy wrote:The filesize limit cuts out good quality trailers, shorts, and some H.264 encodes, though.

And the no-WMV-or-RM limit cuts out the rare watchable video in those filetypes. Can't have it all. I'm just suggesting it as a temporary measure in the meantime, if it would help.

How about sorting by star rating? You get some cases of inflation, but if you really want to avoid crap, there's that too. Again, as something you could do right now.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:18 pm

Gepetto wrote:To get a RM file larger than 30 megas, you'd need what, 50 minutes of video?

Why do people assume that codecs like RealVideo are incapable of producing streams at anything but horribly low bitrates?

Gox777 · Post by **Gox777** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:17 pm

madbunny wrote:There already is a max min file size.
I'd support a 'files of type' checkbox (defaulted to ALL) then if people don't want .wmv, or .RM they could deselect it.

That idea sounds good to me. I'd use it.

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:28 pm

shazzy wrote:Pretty self-explanatory: search inclusively for MPG, MPEG, AVI, and MOV while excluding WMV and RM. It'd be an "increase your chances of finding a high-quality AMV that isn't based on DBZ" function!

Sucks to be you, missing out on a lot of good AMVs.

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Super Search format option: All formats except WMV and RM

Super Search format option: All formats except WMV and RM

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