[Imc-london] good news [WAS Re: video comments]

[Mara]

Hi Doug,

any chance you are shooting anamorphic video? That may be the reason for
this. We have some ideas for changes to the publish forms, that include
tickboxes for 16:9 or 4:3, to make sure videos are encoded in the right
aspect ratio. Right now we're mostly lacking volunteers and time to make
those changes happen.

We're working on it, but in the meantime, if you know any html/css
wizards who would want to join our awesome team, they would be more than
welcome!

cheers,
mara


On 10/10/2010 07:14, jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Many thanks gdm. Great relief!
> 
> I hate to mention it as well but I have had problems in the past with the
> video aspect ratio, which does not occur with the same video on other
> well-known sites.
> 
> This is one example which is 16:9 ratio but has been squeezed.
> 
> http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/5292
> 
> Not sure why this is occurring but the ratio seems to be set by the
> leading video clip. When I have combined 4:3 with 16:9 in one video this
> was the case but should not happen with a solely 16:9 video.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 
> 
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm sorry for the huge delay, but i believe this problem has now been
>> fixed! please check it out and let us know if there are continued
>> problems.
>>
>> the problem seems to have been due to an incorrectly configured switch
>> (on the part of the bandwidth provider). more info is available in the
>> following ticket - specifically, the comment mentioned:
>>
>>  * https://support.mayfirst.org/ticket/2928#comment:10
>>
>> solidarity,
>>
>> 	--gdm
>>
>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:23:13AM -0700, jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
>>> Two things. The video plays faster than the download speed and the
>>> download keeps stopping. If you pause the video hopefully the download
>>> will continue until it is complete and then you can play the video
>>> without
>>> hassle. But this waiting around rather defeats the object of having
>>> embedded video on a website, which should play smoothly right from the
>>> start.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>> I notice the stopping too now, is that to do with the buffering? It
>>>> seems like not enough of the video gets loaded before it starts
>>> playing.
>>>> It starts playing faster than from lots of other sites, shorter delay
>>>> between pressing play and the video starting up, but then it stops
>>> after
>>>> a little while.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/05/2010 14:30, yossarian wrote:
>>>>> On 05/11/2010 02:28 PM, jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
>>>>>> I don't know if this helps. I have Bitmeter on my computer. At the
>>> time
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> testing YouTube runs at about 1MB/sec and seldom drops below 0.5MB.
>>>>>> VisononTV also adopted my video and seems similar in performance to
>>>>>> YouTube. Indy, however, seldom rises to 0.4MB and keeps dropping to
>>>>>> near
>>>>>> zero, which interrupts the video.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> let me know if there is anything else I can test.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://codebox.no-ip.net/bitmeter2dl
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, that's great feedback, thanks for that, Doug.  I'll forward this
>>> on
>>>>> to server people and see if they have any comment on it.  In the
>>>>> meantime, if anybody else can do similar tests that'd be rather good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yoss
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>
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